The PlayStore is filled with many apps and Google has removed nine popular apps that contained trojans that stole users’ Facebook login details.
This comes after a report by Dr Web of how its malware analysts had discovered malicious code in the apps, which were downloaded more than 5.8 million times. In case you have any of these apps we advise you to uninstall it from your phone.
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The nine apps that were found to be stealing Facebook logins and passwords were:
- PIP Photo by Lillians, downloaded more than 5,000,000 times.
- Processing Photo by chikumburahamilton, downloaded more than 500,000 times.
- Horoscope Daily by Hscope Daily mom, downloaded more than 100,000 times.
- Inwell Fitness by Reuben Germaine, downloaded more than 100,000 times.
- Rubbish Cleaner by SNT.rbcl, downloaded more than 100,000 times.
- App Lock Keep by Sheralaw Rence, downloaded more than 50,000 times
- App Lock Manager by Implummet col, downloaded more than 10,000 times.
- Lockit Master by Enali mchicolo, downloaded more than 5,000 times.
- Horoscope Pi by Talleyr Shauna, downloaded more than 1,000 times.
Dr Web’s report showed that the apps used five malware variants between them, three of which were native to Android and two others using the Google Flutter framework. What is common to all the variants is that they used identical configuration file formats and JavaScript code, so they were classified as the same trojan.
Dr Web informed Google of these Facebook infesting applications and the company subsequently removed the apps and also banned the developers from the store.
