Android. A new very serious and very serious problem has been discovered for platform of Google recently, and it is good for all users to know what risks they are currently exposed to. We are talking about a series of Android applications that promise to edit photos to make people "look more beautiful", but in reality display ads with pornographic content, steal photos, install third-party applications, or send users to websites that steal the data.
Android. The problematic applications were discovered by Trend Micro and revealed to users around the world, most of them being very dangerous, unfortunately for users. Immediately after opening the applications, they start displaying advertisements, either with pornographic content or other misleading ones, which promise Android users that they can win prizes, but in the end they end up giving their data to various "ghost" websites.
Android has a very serious problem with certain applications from Google Play
Android. Applications of this kind hide their icons in the application lists of the phones, to be more difficult to delete, so users have to make more effort to get rid of them after discovering what they have installed. Some of the applications even have between 1 and 5 million downloads, so many Android users are tricked into using them, and hackers manage to extract important information from them, all without Google doing anything for the time being to solve the situation.
The app will push several full screen ads when users unlock their devices, including malicious ads (such as fraudulent content and pornography) that will pop up via the user's browser. During our analysis, we found a paid online pornography player that was downloaded when clicking the pop up. Some of these apps redirect to phishing websites that ask the user for personal information, such as addresses and phone numbers.
Android. Most applications have the name "beauty" in them, but those with names containing the words "art", "selfie", "filters", and are made by Chinese, Indians, etc., can also be created for malicious purposes. Unfortunately, in the case of the Android platform, problems of this kind are quite frequent, because the freedom that Google offers to developers gives rise to abuses of this kind, and often the company intervenes much too late to solve the problems.
