Remove these malicious apps from your Android phone right now
A list of the latest malicious applications for Android phones has been published, and if you don’t want to become a victim of hacking, you should delete them right now.
In 2023, compared to previous years, the number of malicious applications was much less. McAfee Mobile’s research team had discovered dozens of Xamalicious-infected apps on the Google Play Store. Google removed them from the Google Play store, but many users may still have them installed on their devices.
The list of the latest malicious applications in Android
Check the list below and if any of these malicious apps are installed on your Android phone, remove them immediately:
- Essential Horoscope for Android with 100 thousand downloads
- 3D Skin Editor for PE Minecraft with 100 thousand downloads
- Logo Maker Pro with 100,000 downloads
- Auto Click Repeater with 10 thousand downloads
- Count Easy Calorie Calculator with 10 thousand downloads
- Sound Volume Extender with 5 thousand downloads
- LetterLink with 1000 downloads
- NUMEROLOGY: PERSONAL HOROSCOPE & NUMBER PREDICTIONS with 1000 downloads
- Step Keeper: Easy Pedometer with 500 downloads
- Track Your Sleep with 500 downloads
- Sound Volume Booster with 100 downloads
- Astrological Navigator: Daily Horoscope & Tarot with 100 downloads
- Universal Calculator with 100 downloads
According to McAfee researchers, Xamalicious is an Android backdoor built on the Xamarin open source mobile application platform. Xamalocious-infected apps use social engineering tactics to gain access to victims’ phones. At this stage, the device starts communicating with a command and control server, without the device owner being informed.
Then the server will perform a second upload on your phone, after which it will “take full control of the device and do things like click ads, install apps, and even do financial things without the user’s consent.”