Android, the most used operating system for mobile phones in the whole world, is coming back to the attention of the whole world, and millions of people with phones have to be careful. A new extremely serious alert has been issued for people with phones because dozens of applications full of adware and malware have been discovered in the Google Play Store.
Android allows the installation of applications from anywhere on the Internet, but the Google Play Store is the official application store of Google. The 36 applications full of malware and adware managed to fool Google's security systems and were published, being disguised as various types of utility applications for phones.
10 million is the cumulative download figure for these malware and adware apps for Android, so there are millions of phones that are infected. Unfortunately, most people do not know that their phones are infected, and this is because the applications carry out their activity in the background, far from the eyes of those who use the phones.
Android: ALERT for Millions of Phones, Major Danger Revealed
Android is thought of as a safe operating system, so these applications start to work and do harm only after they receive the necessary permissions from the users. Among them is one that requires the exclusion from the limitations of the functions that reduce the energy consumption of the battery, so you can imagine how demanding the phones are.
The adware in these applications displays various off-screen advertisements to generate money for the hackers who made it, all without people knowing. The malware can sign people up for premium Android services without them knowing, steal their login data on all kinds of websites, and steal various other types of data from phones.
Android is generally a secure operating system, but when people are tricked into giving apps permissions they shouldn't have, anything can happen. Google constantly tells people not to give apps permissions they shouldn't have, asks them not to install apps from unknown sources, but not everyone knows how to protect themselves.
