Delete them ASAP! These 60 apps steal data and damage your cell phone

There is terrible news for users of mobile devices with him operating system of android, and what happens is 60 legitimate apps have been infected with malware capable of collecting data from infected computers, such as: the list of installed applications or location history. Even if Google was able to remove damaged rigs in time, re-registered more than One hundred million of downloads in the digital store Play store… which were part of a specialized library.

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McAfee named him “Goldson”

Researchers from McAfee decided that the library for this malware should be called Goldson, who infected 60 legitimate apps from the digital store Google. After this information was made public, the company that owns the most used search engine in the world removed a large part of the infected applications, even if some are still available after the developers offered a actualization What removed the threat.

It should be noted that these applications worked very sporadically. Once installed in a android smartphone, they contacted a domain of remote server for the ease of settings —which for the operation of specific parameters— compiled the complete information of the devices, at least this is how the specialists of McAfee, on an official blog.

Among the most common tasks performed by apps were loading malicious advertisements, collecting data such as: the list of installed applications, location history, Bluetooth and WiFi addresses, etc., and its shipment log to the remote server. When this timely information has been combined, it “allowed the identification of individuals”or at least that’s what the company said of cybersecurity.

In order to access this sensitive data, it has been learned that at least 10 percent of the Apps they got it relevant authorization for their collection, which was not surprising because google play requires the user of the mobile device to understand that it is sensitive information. The others have encountered difficulties in the computers on which the system was installed Android 11 or one higher version.

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