Android is at the center of a new alert today after it was discovered that tens of millions of people are at risk from a very dangerous new malware that is hidden in existing applications in the Google Play Store. The application is called SnapTube, and it has been downloaded by tens of millions of people so far, all of them with the Android operating system, and the situation is as serious as can be.
Android had this problem discovered by a company specialized in computer security, the application in question being promoted with the promise of downloading YouTube and Facebook videos for offline playback. The application has 40 million active users, and has been downloaded many times in the Android operating system, and in the background it works in an extremely dangerous way for users.
ALERT for Android, TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WARNED
Android is a very free operating system, and this application was able to display ads in the background without the users knowing, but also to make product purchases using the users' data. Everything is happening while the users of phones with the Android operating system were trying to download videos from YouTube and Facebook, and the developers made millions upon millions of dollars from this practice.
Android can be exploited through applications of this kind to make phone calls to numbers with a surcharge, but also to send SMS with payments to various numbers, and all this is done by SnapTube. Moreover, Android users were subscribed to very expensive services without knowing it, the developers of the application managing to collect tens of millions of dollars from their practices so far.
Android has had problems with applications of this kind for a very long time, and this application was developed by a Chinese company, and this explains all the problems that have been reported.
