It has some of these applications on your Android? Remove them now! – Pplware

Often arise news of security problems on Android and its applications store. This is a system that is very exposed and therefore the attackers exploiting those flaws.

A new group of applications has been removed from the Play Store recently, all because they contained malware able to change any Android. If you have on your smartphone, delete them immediately.

There are 13 new applications that Google removed the Play Store after receiving information that would present in its malware code. This discovery was made by Lookout security company, who explained in detail their discovery.

Applications had this Brain Test malware, which already last year had reached Google devices and had been found in various shops of applications that Google does not control.

This time the applications into the Play Store discreetly and without any malware, and was later updated to have the malicious component and thus to attack smartphones .

The differences in this version of Brain Test

But there was a difference that caught the attention of researchers Lookout. They had thousands of discharges and were well quoted in the Play Store. This was only possible thanks to the manipulation of applications, which could discharge and install new applications and give positive notes themselves.

The apps are capable of using devices compromised to download and positively review other malicious apps in the Play store by the same authors. This helps Increase the download figures in the Play Store.

Once installed applications sought to gain control over the smartphone, making sure that they had applied root and if the answer was positive they settled as a system application, which prevented its removal even if a factory restoration was done.

What was determined the applications were not to perform any malicious activity, with only replicate and install other applications of the same creator on Android smartphones.

But it would have been enough a simple upgrade, with new instructions and new code would suffice for them to have a completely different behavior.