Android users use many apps on their smartphones. These include many apps ranging from messaging to gaming. Many of these apps prove to be very helpful in your daily life. However, it is not the case that if these apps are useful to you, then they should also be safe. Many of these apps are so dangerous that they steal your personal information and make it available to hackers. Earlier, researchers had found such apps, and Google deleted them from its platform.
Now once again on the Google Play Store, researchers have found 17 apps that show users a lousy ad. These apps have spotted by security firm Bitdefender. These apps downloaded over 5,50,000 times. It includes many apps like racing games, barcodes, and QR codes. Many tricks have been used in these apps so that they can save from the eyes of Google. Not only this, many of these apps are still in the Play Store.
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These apps give pop-up advertisements to users, which affects the phone’s battery, and it ends quickly. These apps are affected by adware. They do not work like malware. The researchers cautioned the users that they could promptly turn over to install Android Malware.
Last month, a report from Check Point Research revealed stating that there are 19 such apps on the Android platform that have security holes. There are many popular apps, from Facebook to Instagram. These security holes have never fixed.
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