Millions of consumers are now being urged to check their devices quickly after security experts found a new threat targeting Android phones. The team at McAfee Mobile Security discovered the most recent attack, which can infect well-known applications with a malicious software library and start carrying out tasks without the smartphone owners' authorization.[1]
Cyber criminals can use a contaminated app to view Wi-Fi history, Bluetooth devices connected to a phone, apps used, and even nearby GPS locations once it has been installed. This indicates that a con artist may be aware of your exact location.
How dangerous could this happen? Worse yet, because the bug can perform AD fraud by clicking on bogus advertisements that appear in the background, Android users might be making money for hackers without even realizing it. Phones frequently become overloaded and overworked because of this kind of attack, which is also known to slow down devices. McAfee confirmed, "the research team has found over 60 applications containing this third-party malicious library, with over 100 million downloads."
In addition, the problem has already been reported to Google by the research team, who instructed app developers to fix their apps or face removal from its app store.
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[1] https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/technology/google-has-banned-36-popular-android-apps-and-millions-are-being-pushed-to-do-so-right-away/ar-AA1a2du3
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