These 10 dangerous apps banned by Google from Play Store! Delete NOW; check full list

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All the Android apps that you see available on Google Play Store need to pass through several security checks to go online before they are made available for downloading bu users. However, sometimes these malicious apps somehow manage to escape these security checks to be listed on Google Play Store where many users download them thinking they are useful. And surprisingly, they rack up a huge number of downloads too! But sometimes these dangerous apps are exposed and Google Play Store removes them to ensure more people are not caught in their web. Now, it has been revealed that Google banned 10 popular Android apps from the Play Store that had more than 60 million downloads! That means a huge number of people have these dangerous apps on their smartphones.

According to a recent report by Wall Street Journal, Google has removed these 10 Android apps from the Play Store due their dangerous nature which can steal user's data. These online fraudsters aim to get access to data on a large scale. According to the recort, these malicious apps were able to share the exact location of the users to hackers. Moreover, these apps have the potential to get access to emails, contact numbers, even passwords.

These data-stealing Android apps were used as a tool by hackers to get access to smartphones of all those who downloaded these apps. Hackers employed the data theft via these apps through the 'cut and paste' method. Basically, whenever a user copy-pasted an OTP, password or any other details, the hackers were able to steal the details through these apps from the device. The report also mentioned that these apps were able to help the fraudster to get access to the downloaded files on WhatsApp.

Because of their dangerous nature, Google