These 15 applications from the Google Play Store are downloading advertising to your mobile

The applications that we download from the Google Play Store should be one hundred percent safe. In fact, one of the keys to not infect our phones is never download software from unofficial pages or stores However, in recent months we have seen how fraudulent applications have repeatedly slipped into the official Google store.

We have now learned that there are at least 15 apps from the Google Play Store that are downloading to your mobile. How do you read it? Lukas Stefanko, malware researcher at ESET, has warned through Twitter of the danger of these fifteen applications.

And it seems that they are capable of downloading to our mobiles and payment links that can end up generating enormous expenses for users. Virtually without realizing it. The complaint is added to the one made a few days ago by the security firm ESET itself, in which warned about the dangers of a total of 35 supposed security applications full of adware

"Uninstall these apps! 15 apps with more than 400k+ installs in total found on Google Play. These apps can download additional payload and display + click on invisible>"

- Lukas Stefanko (@LukasStefanko) May 10, 2018

15 apps that you should delete from your mobile as soon as possible

The most serious thing about all this is that we are not dealing with minority applications. Nothing is further from reality. According to its discoverer, these apps are among the most downloaded in the Google Play Store, with up to 400,000 downloads per application. Almost nothing.

There is another important problem. And it is that almost all of them have good evaluations, so that for users it can be really difficult to detect that they are applications with malware or adware In addition, they are tools that all types of users could download, because the truth is that they are located in many different areas. We have everything from sports applications to recipes.

As explained by analyst Lukas Stefanko, apps come loaded with extra content and display ads that are invisible to the user. This makes its malign activity goes unnoticed by the vast majority. Actually this is his great achievement.

These are the fraudulent applications

What if I have any of these applications installed on my mobile? Well, in this case, you will have to hurry to check if your day you downloaded them.And if, after doing the pertinent checks, you detect that you have not fallen into any of these traps, we also recommend taking this list into account.

It is not going to be that by mistake you end up installing any of these on your mobile. They are as follows and you have to be very alert: still available in the Google Play Store.

• Sandi Generator PassCreator
• Awesome Converter
• Sportify
• Allconvert
• Crypto Wall
• Coincheck
• MyCookBook
• RoutePoint
• SportAge
• SportKeeper
• Exchange Calculator Plus
• Converto
• BitKeep
• Yoga mastering
• Cold Glass

How to avoid these types of apps

Although it is getting more and more complicated (obviously they are even sneaking into Google), it is important that you be very careful with the applications you download. Even if it's from the Google Play Store.

• Check carefully the comments that the application has in the store It is possible that there are positive comments, as in these apps, but also we have detected other comments that warn about the fact that the application ends up becoming a real nightmare for users.
• Always download from official sources. And if you're not sure (an app imitating an official one has sneaked in more than once), make sure that the same application is promoted on the official page of the company, organization or bank.
• Install an antivirus solution as soon as possible. It is the only guarantee of being prevented from such ste althy attacks.