Google removes 17 apps from Play Store that intend to gain user data access
Google has removed 17 applications from its Play Store which intended to gain unauthorized access of the users’ data.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Google has deleted 17 apps in total from Google Play Store.
- The removed 17 Android apps were infected with Joker malware.
- As per reports, there were around 120,000 downloads for these malicious apps.
Google has removed 17 Android applications from its official distribution service platform -Play Store. The 17 apps were infected with the Joker malware, which is also called Bread malware. The security researchers at Zscaler, which is a California-based IT security company, identified these malicious apps.
“This spyware is intended to take SMS messages, contact records, and gadget data, alongside quietly joining the casualty for premium remote application convention (WAP) administrations,” Zscaler security specialist Viral Gandhi said.
When Google was advised about the 17 vindictive applications that expect to increase unapproved admittance to the clients’ information, the organization’s Android Security group made a brief move to eliminate the applications from the Play Store.
Be that as it may, there was as yet an aggregate of around 120,000 downloads for the recognized pernicious applications, as Zscaler noted in a blog entry.
The 17 apps deleted from Play Store by Google include:
–All Good PDF Scanner
–Mint Leaf Message-Your Private Message
–Unique Keyboard – Fancy Fonts & Free Emoticons
–Tangram App Lock
–Direct Messenger
–Private SMS
–One Sentence Translator – Multifunctional Translator
–Style Photo Collage
–Meticulous Scanner
–Desire Translate
–Talent Photo Editor – Blur focus
–Care Message
–Part Message
–Paper Doc Scanner
–Blue Scanner
–Hummingbird PDF Converter – Photo to PDF
–All Good PDF Scanner
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