01/09/2024

Check Your Phone for These Apps

These seemingly harmless apps are actually malware

Last month, McAfee released a report identifying a total of 14 Android apps containing malware to create a "back door" that allows malicious software to track your location, carrier, apps on your phone and so on, and can allow others to take over your device. Though Google has removed the apps from its Play Store, some had been there since 2020.

The most popular of these innocent-seeming apps do things like help you count calories, play a dot-connecting game or get your daily horoscope. In total, they've been downloaded more than 338,000 times.

Here are the six most popular of these malicious apps. You can find the full list of 14 malware apps in McAfee's blog post about them. It's smart to check your phone right now to see if you happen to have any of them installed.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Inc.