Tuesday, July 13, 2021, 2:52 AM
Google Play has eliminated 17 very dangerous applications for Android devices from the store. The first warning launched it in June Fast Heal protection Labs, a leading research company, threat information and cyber security that develops safety software for consumers, servers or cloud computing. Quick Heal has informed Google of eight applications that are infected and the internet giant has eliminated them from the Play Store, although who has installed them on their device, she has to eliminate.
In this case it was Joker, a espionage Trojan who steals data from the victim’s device, such as messages, contact lists or information on the device, and subscribes to Premium services.
The 8 infected apps, usually from scanner services, SMS or wallpapers, are the following:
– help message
– Fast magic SMS
– Super Message
– Free Cam -Scanner
– Element scanner
– Go messages
– Travel wallpapers
– Super SMS.
Now, the cyber security company Dr. Web It has reported nine other applications that contain Trojans with which the access and passwords of the social network of Facebook have been stolen. The applications were the following:
– Process photo
– App Lock Keep,
– Waste cleaner
– Horoscope Daily
– Horoscope Pi
– App Lock Lock Manager
– Lockit Master
– inwell fitness
– Pip photo.
According to Infobae, Dr. warned Web that, although they have already eliminated from Google Play, They are still available on platforms of the third party and apps apps. That is why users must be alert and not download the content everywhere.
The affected applications contain a variant of the Trojan Android.pws.facebook.15, which uses file formats and Java scripts to steal user information. In this case, their access data was obtained from Facebook, although they could have been used to steal references from any other service.
