Google has removed 25 apps: Search engine company Google has deleted 25 apps from the Play Store for security reasons. The apps were accused of stealing users' Facebook data. This information was given by the French cyber security firm Evina.
News from ZEE affiliate website Zeebiz.com related to how many of these apps were related to Step Counter, Image Editor, Video Editing Apps, Wallpaper Apps, Flashlight, File Manager and Mobile Games, which have been removed.
If your phone also has these apps then uninstall it immediately. More than five lakh people have downloaded Super Wallpapers Flashlight and Pasadena from these apps. Some apps have been downloaded more than a million times. So the last three apps on the other hand have only been downloaded 100 times.
According to the researchers, these apps had a code that detected which apps were running in the background. If Facebook runs in the background then it will take all the information of Facebook.
News from ZEE affiliate website Zeebiz.com related to how many of these apps were related to Step Counter, Image Editor, Video Editing Apps, Wallpaper Apps, Flashlight, File Manager and Mobile Games, which have been removed.
Removed these apps
Here are the names of the apps that Google has removed from the Place Store ....- Super Wallpapers Flashlight
- Padenatef
- Wallpaper Level
- Contour level wallpaper
- Iplayer & iwallpaper
- Video maker
- Color Wallpapers
- Pedometer
- Powerful Flashlight
- Super Bright Flashlight
- Super Flashlight
- Solitaire
- Accurate scanning of QR code
- Classic card game
- Junk file cleaning
- Synthetic Z
- File Manager
- Composite Z
- Screenshot capture
- Daily Horoscope Wallpapers
- Wuxia Reader
- Plus Weather
- Anime Live Wallpaper
- iHealth step counter
- Com.tyapp.fiction
If your phone also has these apps then uninstall it immediately. More than five lakh people have downloaded Super Wallpapers Flashlight and Pasadena from these apps. Some apps have been downloaded more than a million times. So the last three apps on the other hand have only been downloaded 100 times.
According to the researchers, these apps had a code that detected which apps were running in the background. If Facebook runs in the background then it will take all the information of Facebook.