Google Play Calculators will break Android smartphones massively

< img src = "/uploads/blogs/06/59/IB-1il6M6Mcn_8382Be12.jpg" Alt = "Google Play Calculators are massively broken by Android smartphones"/> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ < P > Google Play revealed harmful applications that are masked by normal calculators. The most famous of these & ndash; Finance Simplified, loaded over 100,000 times, which was actually contained by Trojan Spyloan. This app had a double functionality: outside India worked as a normal calculator, and in India activated harmful functions, offering micro -loans and cracking users.

< p > found at least three other similar programs (KreditApple, Pokketme, Stashfur). Developers use the & ldquo; dosage & RDQUO; when the pure program is first distributed, which subsequently downloads the malicious code. Even after deleting from Google Play, the danger is stored as previously installed versions continue to work and new with & Rsquo; appear under other names.

< P > Such harmful applications collect huge amounts of data, asking access to contacts, calls, SMS, photos, geolocation, clipboard and bank messages. The information collected can be used not only for theft of money, but also for blackmail. The main way to protect & ndash; to carefully check that permits asks the app and not to grant suspicious permits even if the program is loaded from the official store.