Over 2 Million People Have downloaded these dangerous apps.

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As defenders are trying their possible best to defend themselves, the attackers are also doing their best in other to be able to attack without the defenders notice. This also applies in the world of malwares, Viruses and antivirus.

This is what has resulted in over 2 Million individuals downloading various applications that full of malwares and Viruses. This has caused millions of individuals to be warned on these applications that are full with viruses.

Upon the numerous security measures that have put up by Google to ensure that these malwares and viruses do not get pass them to Play store. Some still manage to bypass google security features and once they do that , they cause a lot of harm to the individual to mistakenly fall as victims.

A very high number of android malwares were detected on Google play store and their which are major cause of distractive advertisement on our phones. Majority of these applications are related to settings and onces installed, can cause a great harm.

If these applications are installed, you begin to see annoying adds which might even block some applications from opening and they might, showing unnecessary notification, creating unknown shortcuts, and loading some random sites.

If you are some who does not know the apps you have on your phone you would find it difficult to deal with these app. Some will immediately change their icon, name and location after installation and they begin to work underground which is dangerous for the phone users. Because in this instance, they are ables to have access to all what you are doing on the phone.


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Bitdefender a cyber security company was able to come out of the record and noticed that these apps have been downloaded by over 2 Million individuals. After the information was brought to google, they were able to remove all there apps from the play store. However, those who downloaded it earlier should check and delete it as soon as possible.

Here is a list of the apps.


Application NameApplication Name
Walls lightBig Emoji
Grand wallpapersEngine wallpapers
Stock wallpapersEffectMania
Art FilterFast emoji keyboard APK
Create sticker for What'sappMath solver
Photopix effectLed theme
Animated Sticker masterSleep sound
Personality charging showImage warp camera
GPS location finder-


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Conclusion

These malwares developer will try their possible best in other to bypass the security features of google and sometimes they will succeed. It is therefore left unto us to be careful of the applications we download on our phones.

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