Amid of the prevailing risk of a crucial privacy breach and unwanted access to personal data by others, Google decided to ban 17 applications from its platform. Yes, you are hearing correct previously Google banned so many Chinese applications, and it’s time for other applications to get banned as it has been found that they are involved in stealing the personal and sensitive data of the users. Furthermore, these are the applications containing malicious malware and this malware is very much responsible for sending all the private information about the users to some others, according to a report of a cybersecurity firm.
If you are interested in knowing deep about this news article, then have a look down below. We are going to provide all the information regarding why or what are the reasons for Google revoking the access of 17 applications from the Play Store. Let’s start up with further information:
As per the information from Zcaler’s Viral Gandhi, this joker malware that is stealing information of users was specifically designed to steal personal SMS, contact information along with the device information. It was also signing up users for premium wireless application services (WAP) without any knowledge. According to Zcaler’s Viral Gandhi, until now there are around 1,20,000 downloads of these 17 applications, and all of them are affected by these snooping malware. All the 17 applications that are going to be banned because of stealing information includes Blue Scanner, Care Message, Part Message, Direct Messenger, Tangram Applock, Unique Keyboard, Mint-leaf message, One sentence translator, Photo to PDF, Paper Doc Scanner, Care Message, Style Photo College, Private SMS, All Good PDF Scanner, Multifunctional translator, Hummingbird PDF converter, Meticulous scanner, Desire translate, and Talent photo editor — Blur focus. Therefore, these are all 17 applications included in the ban.
Earlier also, Play Store revoked the access of other 6 applications for the same issues only and now the number of revoking applications has increased to 17. As per the blog post of Google, the Android security team has recently claimed that it has taken down the access of around 17,000 applications till now since 2017. The malware joker is present on lots of applications and all of them are posing a substantial challenge to Play Store toward security. In fact, in the month of July also Play Store banned so many applications as all of them were using a technique called dropper to bypass the Google security scan and sneak into the user’s data and device.
So, remember that if any user downloads a joker affected application initially it would only ask for permission for access to sensitive information and credentials but do not perform any hazardous activities. But slowly and slowly it drops down the other components and malware through the app just to carry down all the sensitive information. Eventually, users need to be more vigilant while downloading such kind of applications and should check properly about the scope of permissions, a particular application is asking for, to avoid any kind of future problems.
Therefore, this is all why Google has revoked the access of 17 applications from the Play Store. To learn more about such exciting news get connected to us.
