31 Disguised Malicious Apps You Need to Remove from Your Phone

31 Disguised Malicious Apps You Need to Remove from Your Phone

It's been revealed Google recently removed over 30 popular apps from its Play Store after it was discovered the software had the ability to bombard users with unwanted adverts and intrusive browser redirects, which would take Android fans to websites without them ever clicking on a link.

The discovery of these malicious and adware-packed apps was made by the team at WhiteOps, which believes a criminal group were behind the threat. These cyber crooks first started uploading the software, designed to mainly target the beauty and selfie market, to Google's Play Store back in January 2019.

During the earlier period of these attacks, Google's protection service had been deleting most of the apps a few weeks after they were uploaded due to their malicious nature. In fact, according to WhiteOps most of these applications lasted just 17 days before being blocked.

But despite their short life on the Play Store they still managed to amass over 500,000 downloads which makes the attack extremely serious. If that wasn't bad enough, things got worse in September 2019 with the criminals changing tactics.

In a post on its website, WhiteOps explained: "The White Ops Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team recently identified and tracked a fraud operation that rendered fraudulent advertising in users' devices. These apps amassed more than 20 million downloads."

What these apps all have in common - besides their fraudulent tactics - is their focus on beauty. Most purport to be selfie apps that add beauty filters to users' pictures, while at the same time showing ads out of context and making it nearly impossible to remove the apps themselves. In the time since that first app was published, the fraudsters published a new app every 11 days on average. And on average, those apps were pulled down from the Play Store 17 days later.

Here is the list of those apps;

• Yoroko Camera - INSTALLS 100,000

• Solu Camera - INSTALLS 500,000

• Lite Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 1 million

• Beauty Collage Lite - INSTALLS 500,000 -

• Beauty & Filters Camera - INSTALLS 1 million

• Photo Collage & Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 100,0000

• Beauty Camera Selfie Filter - INSTALLS 10,000

• Gaty Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 500,000

• Pand Selife Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 50,000

• Catoon Photo Editor & Selfie Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 1 million

• Benbu Selife Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 1 million

• Pinut Selife Beauty Camera & Photo Editor - INSTALLS 1 million

• Mood Photo Editor & Selife Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 500,000

• Rose Photo Editor & Selfie Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 1 million

• Selife Beauty Camera & Photo Editor - INSTALLS 100,000

• Fog Selife Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 100,000

• First Selife Beauty Camera & Photo Editor - INSTALLS 5000,000

• Vanu Selife Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 100,000

• Sun Pro Beauty Cameraa - INSTALLS 1 million

• Funny Sweet Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 500,000

• Little Bee Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 1 million

• Beauty Camera & Photo Editor Pro - INSTALLS 1 million

• Grass Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 1 million

• Ele Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 1 million

• Flower Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 100,000

• Best Selfie Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 1 million

• Orange Camera - INSTALLS 500,000

• Sunny Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 1 million

• Pro Selfie Beauty Camera - INSTALLS 500,000

• Selfie Beauty Camera Pro - INSTALLS 1 million

• Elegant Beauty Cam-2019 - INSTALLS 50,000

It can be seen that these apps have amounted not quite a large number of downloads, but a large number of downloads. So the best thing you can do now is to inform as much people as you can so to help them stay secured.

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