Beware! 100 mn phones have these DANGEROUS Google Play Store apps; Check list and DELETE

tech.hindustantimes.com:

In one of the biggest ‘fleeceware’ campaigns in recent years, 470 malicious Google Play Store apps have been uncovered that are stealing millions of dollars from users all across the globe. The campaign began about two years ago, when these Android apps were first added to Google Play Store. Since then, the Play Store apps have been cumulatively downloaded more than 105 million times! These dangerous apps can be on your Android smartphone right now and could be stealing your money without you even knowing. Read on to know more about these dangerous apps that steal and how to get rid of them. Notably, these dangerous scamware on Google Play Store apps list have to be removed by users from their phones. These apps have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars.

The report on these Google Play Store apps comes from Dallas-based mobile security company Zimperium. Posting on their blog, the researchers have named this campaign ‘Dark Herring’. What makes these apps on the list dangerous is that unlike most malicious apps that can be easily found out as they have no functionality, these apps work as advertised and make it extremely difficult for a user to identify if the app is a scamware at all.

These 470 Android apps were listed across categories on Google Play Store and were majorly part of games, entertainment, productivity tools, photo editing apps etc., according to Zimperium’s report. While these apps functioned normally, they would also send users to fraudulent websites. These websites, as part of the campaign, were also disguised to look genuine. The websites were also designed in a way that they would customize themselves to the user’s language and country. The pages simply asked the users to enter their phone number for