Google removed these 25 apps from play store

25 apps removed for stealing Facebook login credentials

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New Delhi : Search engine giant Google is learned to have struck down 25 apps for phishing on the Facebook login credentials of users.

According to the French cyber-security firm, Evina the new malware steals Facebook logins and could effectively ruin your online and offline life.

“New ways of perpetrating fraud are regularly brought to the attention of our cyber-security experts and we recently discovered new malware that steals Facebook logins. This malware could effectively ruin your online and offline life by making off with the credentials of one of your most valued pieces of digital real estate. The malware was embedded in a large number of popular apps,” Evina wrote in a blog post.

“We had Google shut down those applications. Evina managed to successfully reverse-engineer the malware which enabled us to protect end-users against it,” the cyber research firm said.

Explaining how these malicious apps function, Evina said in its blog post,"When an application is launched on your phone, the malware queires the application name. If it is a Facebook application, the malware is displayed in the foreground which makes you think that the application lauched it. When you enter your credentials into the browser, the malware executes JavaScript to retrieve them. The malware then sends your account information to a server."

The below malicious apps, Evina says, collectively had over 25 lakh downloads.

• Super Wallpapers Flashlight
• Padenatef
• Wallpaper Level
• Contour level wallpaper
• iPlayer & iWallpaper
• Video Maker
• Color Wallpapers
• Pedometer
• Powerful Flashlight
• Super Bright Flashlight
• Super Flashlight
• Solitaire Game
• Accurate scanning of Meade
• Classic card game
• Junk file cleaning
• Synthetic Z 
• File Manager
• Composite Z
• Screenshot Capture
• Daily Horoscope Wallpapers
• Wuxia Reader
• Plus Weather
• Anime Live Wallpaper
• iHealth Step Counter
• com.tgyapp.fiction