Android is once again at the center of an extremely serious alert that targets millions of phones around the world at the moment, and that's because we're talking about an officially confirmed major problem. Those at Google discovered that dozens of applications available in the Google Play Store were extracting information from people's Android phones, so they decided to delete them from the application store before they could do more harm.
Android has millions of applications in the Google Play Store, and among those that have proven to be malicious are some from various categories, with more and more trivial functionalities, including some for prayers. The apps contained phone spying software that was made by a US company, and Android app developers who used it were paid by that company, receiving some of the data they collected.
Android: ALERT Issued for Phones, Decision Taken by Google
Android is used by billions of people around the world, and the applications we are talking about now have been downloaded over 60 million times from the Google Play Store. With such a high number of downloads, it's pretty clear that there are millions of people who have installed the apps on their own Android phones, and unknowingly, they've had their data extracted by the creators of this app, which of course it is a big problem.
Android is a very complex operating system, but there are many who want to take advantage of any kind of freedom offered by the technology that the Google company has thought for the phones used by people. In this situation, Google is not to blame, and this is because the spy software was well hidden in the Android applications, and was only discovered by carefully analyzing some of them, probably after a developer disclosed what was happen.
Android is used by so many people that all the applications with this software have been downloaded 60 million times, as I already told you, and millions of people probably still use them, even though the software would no longer extract data from phones.
