Google pulled the apps earlier this month, after checking the results of the French security company. Many of the applications had been on the Play Store for more than a year before being dropped.
Google pulled the apps earlier this month, after checking the results of the French security company.
In a bid to counter data theft and illegal handling of the users’ data, Google has delisted as many as 25 apps from its Play Store. The overall downloads number of these apps surged past 2.34 millions-mark before Google finally decided to pull the trigger on them. These apps were launched as image editors, video editors, wallpaper apps, flashlight applications, file managers, and mobile games but were created by the same threat group and operated under the same objective, according to a ZDNet report quoting a French cybersecurity firm Evina.
Evina said it found the malicious code that stole Facebook passwords in 25 apps that they recorded in late May to Google. Google pulled the apps earlier this month, after checking the results of the French security company. Many of the applications had been on the Play Store for more than a year before being dropped.
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Tech giant Google has removed 25 apps from its Play Store that were allegedly stealing your data. The problem was identified by French cyber-security firm Evina, which claimed that these apps stole Facebook credentials of users.
All these apps come with different names but served the same purpose. Source - Reuters.
Tech giant Google has removed 25 apps from its Play Store that were allegedly stealing your data. The problem was identified by French cyber-security firm Evina, which claimed that these apps stole Facebook credentials of users. The firm even mentioned that by the time they were taken down, these 25 apps were downloaded some 2.34 million times in total.
All these apps come with different names but served the same purpose. Some were step counters, image editors, video editor apps, others were wallpaper apps, flashlight applications, file managers, and mobile games.
Here is the list of apps that have now been removed from the Google Play Store:
Super Wallpapers Flashlight
Padenatef
Wallpaper Level
Contour level wallpaper
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