A recent report by an online publisher warns Android users about dangerous mobile apps that can cause some serious problems on your smartphone.
Smartphones are the most used devices in the world. If you’re an Android user then you can relate that the Google Play store is full of irrelevant devices. Cyber Security and Defense Company (Trend Micro) in its report warned Android mobile users of Google apps that could damage your mobile data and phone.
The report reveals that there are 9 mobile apps that can cause malicious viruses to attack your mobile phones and damage your mobile data. Recent research has revealed that there are various types of harmful optimizers available on the Google Play Store.
There are boosters and utility apps that can easily download different types of files, fraud ads and more than 3,000 types of viruses across devices if you have easy access to your mobile’s remote and configuration services.
According to researchers, the disturbing thing is that these dangerous mobile boosting apps have been downloaded more than 400,000 times.
The icons for such applications are not visible on your mobile screen, but they are secretly affecting your mobile performance. While cyber criminals can use these devices to provide false positives about these harmful apps and to click on ads that ‘popup’ these apps using fraudulent aids.
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Fortunately, Google has removed all 9 of these apps from the Play Store, but users should thoroughly investigate any app before downloading it.
Here are 9 harmful apps:
- Shoot Clean
- Super Clean Lite
- Super Clean
- Quick Games
- Rocket Cleaner
- Rocket Cleaner Lite
- Speed Clean
- LinkWorldVPN
- H5 Gamebox