The constant download and use of APPs of all kinds on our personal and professional mobiles and tablets, has led us to lower our guard against totally unknown applications that may be fraudulent or contain malicious software .
Whether they are QR readers, document scanners and converters, photo filters, wallpapers, virtual stores or games and despite the apparent functionality, in many cases it may be a cyberattack technique.
In today’s security advice we come to alert you to the following seven applications, which could be found and downloaded in official APPStores and which have already been detected as false or that contain some type of malware:
– Now QRcode Scan: it appeared to be a QR code reader.
– Classic Emoji Keyboard: the most downloaded of all, for not raising suspicions by having an apparently normal name and appearing more frequently in the APPStores.
– EmojiOne Keyboard: it allowed to install faces and emoticons on the keyboard.
– Battery Charging Animations Battery Wallpaper: fast battery charging application with animations.
– Dazzling Keyboard: interactive keyboard with colors.
– Volume Booster Louder Sound Equalizer: application that allowed you to install additional sound settings, to amplify the volume or enhance its quality when listening to music.
– Super Hero-Effect: Image filter to introduce superhero animations in our photos and videos (lightning, auras, fire, etc.).
The main objective of these applications was to steal information of all kinds, get money through payments through unauthorized updates or subscriptions to premium services, or infect our device to use it at will without us being aware of it. or infect our device to use it at will without us being aware of it.
Although this is a recurring threat, our recommendation is to immediately uninstall these seven applications that have already been detected, always be aware of the payments made through the download of or subscription to certain applications, and do not download applications through instant download ads, on unofficial websites and social networks.
If when you check your devices, you still detect that at some point you have been a victim of this type of fraud; REPORT IT TO THE POLICE.