From Google to Samsung, Android smartphones are some of the most popular handheld devices around the world.
But if you use an Android smartphone, you may want to reconsider which apps you have installed on your device.
A new report by Evina, seen by ZDNet, has warned about 25 dangerous Android apps that can steal your Facebook password.
ZDNet explained: “The apps posed as step counters, image editors, video editors, wallpaper apps, flashlight applications, file managers, and mobile games.”
And while they’ve now been deleted from the Google Play Store, before being taken down, the apps had been downloaded more than 2.34 million times.
On the surface, the apps appear to offer a legitimate function, but secretly contain malicious code.
According to Evina, this code can detect which app you’ve recently opened.
If this is Facebook, the app can overlay a web browser window on top of the official Facebook app and load a fake Facebook login page.
Worryingly, if you’re fooled by the fake page and enter your credentials, the app can log your data and send it to a remote server.
Thankfully, Evina has reported the dangerous apps to Google, which has now removed them from the Google Play Store.
However, if you have any of the apps installed on your smartphone, we would recommend deleting them immediately.
25 dangerous apps
Super Wallpapers Flashlight
Padenatef
Wallpaper Level
Contour Level Wallpaper
iPlayer & iWallpaper
Video Maker
Color Wallpapers
Pedometer
Powerful Flashlight
Super Bright Flashlight
Super Flashlight
Solitaire Game
Accurate Scanning of QR Code
Classic Card Game
Junk File Cleaning
Synthetic Z
File Manager
Composite Z
Screenshot Capture
Daily Horoscope Wallpapers
Wuxia Reader
Plus Weather
Anime Live Wallpaper
iHealth Step Counter
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