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  • Anti-virus apps become a threat to smartphones, millions of devices on target




    A new threat has emerged for smartphone users. This threat is serious because it is associated with many popular anti-virus apps. Anti-virus apps become a threat to smartphones, millions of devices on target



    A new threat has emerged for smartphone users. This threat is serious because it is associated with many popular anti-virus apps. Most users use them to protect their smartphones from malware or viruses. These anti-virus apps have now become the enemy of users. These infected anti-virus apps have been detected by privacy and security research firm VPNPro. This case is also considered to be very serious because these anti-virus apps have been downloaded about 190 crore times. That is, there is a threat on crores of devices.

    Present on google play store


    The security firm said that there are 10 anti-viruses available on the Google Play Store that dodge smartphone users and take malicious access permissions and enter malware and spyware into the device. After this, these anti-viruses cleverly monitor all the activities done by the user on the smartphone or tablet. Ask for money to be deleted from the device


    The firm said that all these anti-viruses collect and sell personal data based on the permission received from the user. In addition, they also work to spread malware. Some of these apps are such that demand money from users for getting deleted from the device.


    5 such apps have been found before

    A few days ago 5 more such apps were detected. These were also included in the previous reports of VPN Pro. These five apps also targeted the user and device like the 10 apps found this time. However, Google has recently removed these 5 apps from the Play Store. The security firm has reported that these apps were downloaded 500 million times.

    There are also many popular anti-virus apps included.

    These dangerous anti-viruses include many more anti-virus solutions such as Clean Master with popular anti-virus apps such as Clean Master. In the photo given here, you can see the names of these dangerous anti-viruses. If any anti-virus app is present in your device, then delete it immediately.


    Audio and location record data

    Talking about the dangers of these anti-viruses, the research firm said that they enter the smartphone and record audio and make phone calls as well as monitor location data. These anti-virus apps send these data to their developers. These developers earn huge money by selling the data of the users.


    Send data up to 14000 times in a day, you will be surprised to know that mobile apps send location data of users every two seconds. Not only this, in some cases these apps send data 14,000 times a day to different companies. According to an estimate, even in the first hacked 500 million users, only 1 percent of the data is sold, even the developers of these apps earn 20 thousand dollars.




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