Google has banned nine app for Android - until a few hours ago present on the Play Store - as surprises a steal your Facebook login details. So at the moment they are no longer present on the Play Store, but who has downloaded them what should they do? We talk about it in the next lines.
The apps in question had been downloaded 6 million times
Seemingly harmless, legitimate and working, these applications actually were password stealer trojan. Real password thieves, disguised as photo editing, home training and horoscope apps. But also cleaning of useless files in memory, and even virtual locks to protect other apps (cheeky!). And it was no coincidence that they were downloaded from almost 6 million users.
Here are the app names:
1 - Pip Photo - image editor, 5 million downloads;
2 - Processing Photo - another image editor with 500.000 downloads;
3 - Rubbish Cleaner - app to clean the memory of useless elements, 100000 downloads;
4 - Inwell Fitness - home workout app downloaded over 100000 times;
5 - Horoscope Daily - horoscope predictions, downloaded 100000 times;
6 - App Lock Keep - to secure other apps, downloaded 50000 times;
7 - Lockit Master - same as above, 10000 downloads;
8 - App lock Manager - another app lock, downloaded 5000 times;
9 - Horoscope Pi - horoscope downloaded 1000 times;
As we said, it is no longer possible to download the aforementioned apps. However, if you have downloaded one or more, uninstall them and change your Facebook password.
