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:

1. Shoot Clean
2. Super Clean Lite
3. Super Clean
4. Quick Games
5. Rocket Cleaner
6. Rocket Cleaner Lite
7. Speed Clean
8. LinkWorldVPN
9. H5 Gamebox

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But now it is revealed that a bug in WhatsApp’s desktop app last month caused hackers to read users files.

Security Company Perimeter X said in a post that the bug would have affected those who used the WhatsApp app on Windows or Mac to connect to an iPhone.

Researchers discovered weaknesses in WhatsApp’s CSP that could help control the account by sending suspicious messages and links using cross-site scripting.

Researchers have taken advantage of these vulnerabilities by sending such harmful codes to read files in another user’s computer’s local system, which can be harmful when sensitive documents are stored in the machine.

He said that WhatsApp should not use the older version of Google’s Chrome browser platform to avoid such vulnerabilities, as well as users who use the WhatsApp on the desktop app with the help of an iPhone, they should update their phones with latest iOS version.

On the other hand, the WhatsApp-owned Facebook also acknowledged the bug’s presence and said it had been controlled.

Whatsapp provides end-to-end encryption messages for Android and iPhone. This feature is also available on the Desktop app.

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The report of the incident was publicly announced by the twitter officials. They expected that a security researcher has abused API feature of twitter. There were some discussions about the possibility of exploitation of this feature in December 2019.

Balic, an expert security researcher, had identified this latent threat but no considerable efforts were made at that time to handle the issue. A difficult situation is created for twitter to answer the pairing ability of this security flaw.

API is able to pair a much number of mobile numbers to their respective twitter accounts, which is more than its intended purpose of usage.

We recently discovered an issue that allowed bad actors to match a specific phone number with the corresponding accounts on Twitter. We quickly corrected this issue and are sorry this happened. You can learn more about our investigation here: https://t.co/Z6Q4geQ8jo

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 3, 2020

User form Israel and some Arab countries were majorly affected by this incident. Its expected that exploiters might belong to the same regions. It was observed that all those accounts haven`t linked to mobile numbers remained safe in the incident.

Following the incident, twitter has shown some major moves to lead the giant professional social media site to a higher level of security.

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In the first place, they have removed all the fake accounts form their site. API feature is modified immediately after the incident, which will surely halt abuse of this feature in the future.

A disappointment has been observed over the security flaw of twitter by many users around the world. This is surely a hard situation for twitter and it will take some time to get things better.

Twitter officials have ensured its users that the incident is identified and required actions are already taken.

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The lawsuit began with tagging and identifying people by name on Facebook, which is still controversial in many European countries.

Following the advent of the technology on the social media platform, citizens of the US state of Illinois filed a lawsuit on Facebook because it violated some of the privacy laws.

The case has been ongoing since 2015, with the final result now coming out. Illinois citizens say in the petition that only the face can be identified by the police, otherwise, no one else has the right.

The case was reopened in 2018, and the US Supreme Court this month rejected the appeal for a review by Facebook.

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The lawsuit also includes a thousand state engineers who were or are still involved in several secret projects.

The US court also asked Facebook the interesting question of explaining the practical benefits of a face recognition option that Facebook could not satisfy the court.

Some states of US police departments use body cameras, but in some US cities, this practice is also illegal because of local laws.

Facebook rolled out a new feature in this regard named “Tag System“, where the app will automatically recognize your face and gives you a notification to tag yourself in the post.

This option allows users to choose themselves. Currently, this feature is only limited to your friend’s list or suggestions.

Facebook has been facing some real allegations previously. The tech giant company is under heavy review for privacy-related matters.

Now Facebook will pay $550 million to resolve the dispute for facial recognition.

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This feature is to provide users with the convenience of deleting browsing history, which the company uses to personalize ads and is now finally introduced to all users. Facebook has named it the off-site Facebook Activities Tool, which gives third-party site data summaries (used to display targeted ads) and data blocking.

You can find it in the Your Facebook Information section in the Settings menu of the Facebook mobile app or desktop site.

Clicking on it will see a list of all the websites and apps that Facebook tracks when you’re not using Facebook.

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In fact, you will be amazed at how much Facebook knows about your online activities. This Facebook feature also lists how many times you visit a website and clicking on a name will tell how the company knew it and what they did with this information.

To clear your history, Go to the Off-Facebook Activity > Manage Your Off-Facebook Activity > Clear History.

The data acquisition process from Facebook will continue even after this cleanup and will stop when you do not use the opt-out option that is hidden in the Manage Future Activities page on the right side of the website version.

If you turn off data collection from Facebook, you will see the same ads as before, but they will be less personalized. But this is to provide the user with some transparency and even some degree of control over Facebook in order to prevent unnecessary data collection.

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