McAfee has found eight malicious apps. These apps have malicious code and it is harmful to Android users. You must be downloading so many android apps on your phone. Most of the apps are secure which you download from the Play Store. But sometimes some apps are really harmful to us.
These malicious apps are wallpaper, keyboard skins, photo editors, and other camera-related. Today I am explaining to you about Remove these 8 malicious apps and secure your phone. Read this post till the end to know more about this.
Remove these 8 malicious apps to secure your phone
McAfee Mobile Security has detected apps first that, these apps are harmful to users. These apps have malware and it hijacks the notification of the SMS messages. It makes unauthorized purchases after preventing SMS messages notification on users’ phones. These apps are more than 7,00,000 downloads on Google Play Store. The Google Play Store first review the apps before publishing them on its platform.
To successfully get verification and publish the app on Play Store these apps play mind games. According to the report, these apps submit the clean version of the app on the Google Play Store for review and publication. Once it published on the Play Store these apps add the malicious code on their latest updates. It captures the user’s phone once the users update their phone.
According to the reports, the malicious code opens the 1.png file in the assets folder that is hidden in the main .apk. After this decrypts it to the loader .dex. It loads the dropped .dex once it decrypts to the loader .dex.
List of eight malicious apps
- com.studio.keypaper2021
- com.pip.editor.camera
- org.my.favorites.up.keypaper
- com.super.color.hairdryer
- com.celeb3.app.photo.editor
- com.hit.camera.pip
- com.daynight.keyboard.wallpaper
- Com.super.star.ringtones
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