these dangerous apps spy on over 400 million users, uninstall them fast

A new wave of malicious Android apps has been detected on the Play Store. Cybersecurity experts count no less than 101, counting a total of more than 400 million downloads. If one of them is on your smartphone, we advise you to uninstall it without further delay.

If some smartphones are already infected with malware when they leave the factory, it is often by downloading an application that the user finds himself unknowingly with malware. Regularly, a large number of applications find themselves in the sights of cybersecurity researchers, because of malicious software contained in their code.

For once, a new burst of applications is now worrying the experts. These number 101 (all the same), and are particularly popular. In fact, they were uploaded 421 million times in total.

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Do not wait to uninstall these dangerous Android apps

In addition to slowing down your smartphone by displaying too many advertisements, these applications also include spyware responsible for collecting a large amount of personal data. The latter is then able to send this data to an unknown server without you realizing it. Here is the complete list of affected applications, which you should uninstall without delay.