Beware of these 13 apps for Android
A new security issue hits the apps store platform Android upon discovery up to 13 infected applications Tools that, once installed on the users' terminals, were able to download content without the user's authorization, thus compromising their security and privacy Something unusual in Google Play Store, and the solution is complete formatting of the terminal We explain it in detail below.
The alarm has been raised by the security company Lockout, who has discovered none other than 13 applications with malicious behavior hosted in Google Play Store When installed on the mobile, they were automatically responsible for recognizing the device and carrying carry out several tasks beyond its visible or main mission for which the user had downloaded it. According to the researchers, one of those missions was the downloading of new malicious applications, without the users being aware of this activity. Another malicious mission that they carried out was to install themselves in the root of the terminal as if it were a system application so as not to be able to uninstall it.
This type of malicious application was already known in recent months, although it came from outside the Google Play Store, where there are no barriers No protection for users.The curious thing about this case is that they could be downloaded from the Google application store, which means that they have circumvented the company's security barriers. And not only that, since some of the thirteen applications have managed to add more than a million downloads and, what is more surprising, good evaluations on their download tab This is because these malicious applications were in charge of downloading others and, furthermore, evaluating them positively A system that has managed to feed itself until Google has taken action on the matter and has removed them from the store Applications
The problem is that, according to security experts, these applications are installed on devices root or with permission of superuser, are able to copy part of the files and install themselves in the root of the system.This translates into the impossibility of uninstalling them even when performing a factory reset, since the system thinks they are important applications and respects them. That is why the only effective solution for this problem lies in flash the original ROM of the terminal A process for advanced users that requires certain knowledge and, of course,make a backup copy of everything important before performing this step.
In short, a problem that exposes the lack of security guarantee when downloading applications from the Google Play Store Y is that not even the ratings could have saved the affected users in these cases. That is why, before downloading an unknown game or application, it is best to study and investigate as much as possible about its content, without taking anything for granted despite being inside the official store of Google
