To illustrate, the ‘GPS Location Maps’ app, which has over 100k downloads, has no ratings, and upon installation, the programme changes its name from ‘GPS Location Maps’ to ‘Settings,’ and then displays several websites in WebViews and advertisements. If you have any of these below-listed applications installed on your smartphone, you need to remove them right now. Upon installation, the software alters its name and icon to stay hidden on the smartphone. Once installed, these applications begin to display advertisements on users’ phones. These applications pose as settings apps and have over 2 million installations.
Bitdefender, an IT security researcher, discovered 35 malicious applications on Google Play that might infect a user’s phone.
While the Google Play Store has safeguards in place to screen out dangerous apps, some do manage to get through unnoticed.
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