malware apps on play store

[ad_1] Have you ever found yourself charged for subscriptions on the Google Play Store, which you never purchased? If so, then you could be a victim to subscription Trojans. Google Play Store offers millions of apps for Android users at their disposal for any and all tasks. However, cybercriminals see this as a lucrative opportunity to target innocents to steal their data and even dupe them of their money through malware that is secretly embedded in various apps. Despite Google's best attempts, some potentially harmful apps often slip under the radar. Now, a new malware has been discovered in several apps on the Google Play Store which can secretly drain your wallet. Here's what you should know. Money-stealing malwareAccording to a report by Kaskpersky, a malware called Fleckpe has bee...

[ad_1] Cyber security experts have detected SharkBot malware in several Google Play Store apps, which have racked up thousands of downloads. In yet another shocking revelation, Google Play Store, which is supposed to be carrying only secured apps, was found to have many apps with malware in them, infecting those users' gadgets who downloaded any of them. Recently, cyber security experts have found variants of the SharkBot malware in several file manager Android apps on the Google Play Store. Some of these apps have thousands of downloads and all these people now have infected phones.A blog post by cyber security experts at Bitdefender informed that "the apps Bitdefender found are disguised as file managers, which explains why they request permission to install external packages from t...

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