In a recent survey, it is shown that Google play removed 29 Malicious Apps with a collective download count of more than 10 million. One of the malicious apps from the set is ‘multi-app multiple accounts simultaneously’ it has crossed 5 million installs from the 29 apps, In 29 apps, 24 apps belong to HiddAd that hides the icon after they have launched.

The remaining 5 apps belong to the Adware category and enter to our smartphone gadgets through advertisement. Users are exposed to various kinds of advertisements when they visit sites like YouTube, Facebook and other platforms that promote advertisements on various kinds of mobile applications.

The majority of the mobile applications that belong to this genre boast about different kinds of unbelievable functionalities say for X-Ray scanning. When the research was conducted the result that was found out was two such apps have already crossed 1 million downloads.

The Adware apps pretend to offer functionality, but it doesn’t offer any such features, what they do is heavy advertisement on the user’s mobile which eventually draws the battery charge and even drains the data usage along with the productivity loss that eventually decreases the speed of the phone.

 The main drawback of the Adware apps is that it causes trouble as it is opened up in the full screen on your phone that does not have the option to quit or skip them.

As per the report, 8 million Android users were tricked into downloading around 85 adware apps from the Google Play store mainly the photo editing apps and games. Without the user’s knowledge they also generate more ad revenue.

It has become a great challenge for the app developers to develop and design application that helps the common people and is useful for them preventing the malicious element from the applications.

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The malicois apps are a kind of warning in order to ensure the safety, the apps that have been discovered as malicious are dropper apps they download malware “payload” apps and install them onto target devices.

According to the research conducted the latest malware-laced apps as “aggressive,” with files downloaded from outside the Play Store ecosystem, through the backdoor created by the dropper app, giving Google’s systems no opportunity to catch the malicious payload code itself.

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Warning has been given and it is said that the attacker may at any time replace the adware APKs with much more serious malware types and deliver those to the affected devices.

But the developers have come up with the App technology The App Defense Alliance has been set up to quickly find potentially harmful applications and stop them from being published.

It is suggested that to protect your device from malicious elements, it is better to delete those apps that areharmful for the device.

Some of the malicious apps found out are:

Three apps from iSoft LLC:

• Alarm Clock
• Calculator
• Free Magnifying Glass

Two apps from ​LizotMitis:

• Magnifier, Magnifying Glass with Flashlight
• Super-bright Flashlight

And two apps from ​PumpApp:

• Magnifying Glass
• Super Bright LED Flashlight

It is said that the apps that are malicious cannot be removed fast but with the help of screening and linking effort the mobile app developers can make better inroads for addressing the problems.

Conclusion

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