6 applications thought harmless but silently charge users, please remove immediately from your phone

Security researchers at Pradeo recently discovered six more malicious apps containing the notorious Joker malware, which are silently replacing users with paid services without their permission.

The Joker is one of the most popular Android malware first discovered in 2017. This malware is notorious for its payment fraud tricks and espionage capabilities including contact list theft, SMS messages. and device information.

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Joke malware has an increasing frequency of appearance. The guys behind the Joker malware campaign have continually found new attack methods that target vulnerabilities in the Play Store's security audit from encryption to hiding strings from tools. analyze, write fake reviews by themselves to entice users to download the app to use the versioning technique (put the clean version of the app on the Play Store to gain the user's trust then sneak malicious code through the application updates).

By January 2020, more than 1,700 applications infected with Joker malware have been removed by Google from Play Store.

Recently, this malicious code has reappeared on the Google Play app store by hiding the shadow as 6 useful applications to lure users. Initially, these applications are 'clean', but after users download them they will quickly 'replace' users who subscribe to paid services without their permission.

Before being removed from the Play Store, these malicious apps had more than 200,000 downloads and installed.

Android users who have these apps installed should immediately uninstall them and need to unsubscribe from the app so they won't be charged.

List of 6 malicious apps you need to remove from your device

1. Safety AppLock
2. Convenient Scanner 2
3. Push Message-Texting & SMS
4. Emoji Wallpaper
5. Separate Doc Scanner
6. Fingertip GameBox

How to unsubscribe from an app on Google Play to avoid losing money

Open Google Play on your phone -> select the menu (the three-dash icon) in the upper left corner -> select Subscriptions -> select the apps that are on trial or don't want to use anymore then click Cancel Subscription ( cancel registration).

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