Security researchers have discovered several Android apps that contain malware. Still available on the Google Play Store, they have been downloaded over two million times. Mistrust.
Dr. Web’s team of security researchers discovered several infected Android apps last month, some of which are still available for download from the Google Play Store. Downloaded more than two million times, these applications are infected with several types of malware.
Dr. Web has thus identified several applications containing malware used to display very intrusive advertisements, as well as trojans intended to steal the login credentials of Facebook users.
Here is the list of offending apps:
These rogue applications, under the pretext of allowing you to unlock additional features, ask you to connect to your Facebook account. They take advantage of this to send your login credentials and passwords to the hackers who developed them.
Dr. Web’s security researchers have also identified new malware that is hidden in several applications and whose objective is to make you subscribe to a paid subscription to mobile services. These trojans are hidden in several applications:
The hackers also devised a bogus OnlyFans app called “Only Fans App OnlyFans Android” that was supposed to allow users free access to paid OnlyFans profiles as well as private profiles.
Users were actually invited to answer a questionnaire and perform actions such as downloading certain applications in exchange for this famous free access. In reality, they got nothing at all since it was the hackers who reaped the rewards from the affiliate services used for this scam.
If you have or think you have downloaded one or more of the applications mentioned above, do not wait and uninstall them as soon as possible from your Android smartphone.
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Dr Web