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  Google has removed 17 applications from its Play Store which intended to gain unauthorized access of the users' data HIGHLIGHTS Google has deleted 17 apps in total from Google Play Store. The removed 17 Android apps were infected with Joker malware. As per reports, there were around 120,000 downloads for these malicious apps. Google has removed 17 Android applications from its official distribution service platform -Play Store. The 17 apps were infected with the Joker malware, which is also called Bread malware. The security researchers at Zscaler, which is a California-based IT security company, identified these malicious apps. "This spyware is designed to steal SMS messages, contact lists, and device information, along with silently signing up the victim for premium wireless application protocol (WAP) services," Zscaler security researcher Viral Gandhi said. The 17 apps deleted from Play Store by Google include: --All Good PDF Scanner --Mint Leaf Message-Your ...

I ndian intelligence agencies have reportedly flagged 52 apps with ‘links to China’ as being detrimental towards national security, many of which remain popular among Indian users. As per reports citing sources with knowledge of the matter, apps that have allegedly been flagged as potentially dangerous include popular ones such as social media platforms TikTok and Bigo Live, file sharing service Shareit, UC Browser mobile web browser, women-centric e-commerce platform Shein, popular game Clash of Kings and a whole bunch of apps made and pre-bundled by India’s largest smartphone seller, Xiaomi. Reports further suggest that the list, which is said to have been furbished by multiple Indian intelligence agencies, has also received the backing of the Indian National Security Council Secretariat. One apparent entry in the list of apps that have been flagged by Indian agencies is Zoom, the video conferencing service that has seen heavy traction, buoyed by the Covid-19 pandemic that forced peo...