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05 Nov 2021

Android Users Alert! Delete THESE 151 apps from your phones immediately

Over 10.5 million people in more than 80 countries have downloaded these 151 fraudulent apps. The apps pretended to be tools in a variety of areas, including custom keyboards, QR code scanners, video and photo editing programmes, call blocks, and games. These malicious programmes used prompts to ask for the user's phone number and, on occasion, their email address.

Google Play Store

11 Sep 2021

19,000 apps on Google Play Store found unsafe, could even leak personal data

The vulnerability in most of the apps exists due to a crucial misconfiguration. For those uninitiated, Firebase is a tool used by Android developers to store user data. Avast said that data exposed can include personally identifiable information (PII) collected by the apps.

28 Oct 2015

Google, WhatsApp, Facebook accused of breaching user's privacy

Cyber security firm Avast has alleged that Google, WhatsApp and Facebook spy on their users to find out their interest for serving targeted advertisements but their users are well aware about this.

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