Google has been removing apps from the Play Store that are violating policies or are dangerous as they were stealing personal data from mobile phones. Joker malware has been found in apps being deleted from the Play Store. Joker is a dangerous virus that has affected many apps for the past few months. Joker malware infected 11 apps on the Play Store in July. This virus has so far affected many apps and these apps were removed from the App Store in early October.
These 3 apps were stealing children’s data:
Recently, Google removed children’s app Princess Salon, Number Coloring and Cats & Cosplay from the Play Store. But they have not been deleted from the play store due to clown malware. These children’s apps were stealing personal information and were violating play store policies. It is believed that children’s data was being leaked by these three apps to the third party. These apps were downloaded more than 20 million times till now.
The 36 apps, including children’s apps were removed from the Play Store due to malware issues and other rules violations. If the below 36 apps are still in your phone delete them immediately.
Check the entire list here:
1. Princess Salon
2. Number Coloring
3. Cats & Cosplay
3. All Good PDF Scanner
5. Mint Leaf Message-Your Private Message
6. Unique Keyboard – Fancy Fonts & Free Emoticons
7. Tangram App Lock
8. Direct Messenger
9. Private SMS
10. One Sentence Translator – Multifunctional Translator
11. Style Photo Collage
12. Meticulous Scanner
13. Desire Translate
14. Talent Photo Editor – Blur focus
15. Care Message
16. Part Message
17. Paper Doc Scanner
18. Blue Scanner
19. Hummingbird PDF Converter – Photo to PDF
20. All Good PDF Scanner
21. com.imagecompress.android
22. com.relax.relaxation.androidsms
23. com.file.recovefiles
24. com.training.memorygame
25. Push Message- Texting & SMS
26. Fingertip GameBox
27. com.contact.withme. texts
28. com.cheery.message.sendsms (two different instances)
29. com.LPlocker.lockapps
30. Safety AppLock
31. Emoji Wallpaper
32. com.hmvoice.friendsms
33. com.peason.lovinglovemessage
34. com.remindme. alram
35. Convenient Scanner 2
36. Separate Doc Scanner
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