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Google removes 25 apps that stole your Facebook credentials: See the list

Here is the list of 25 Apps that have now been removed from the Google Play Store:

Google has reportedly removed 25 apps from its Play Store after French cyber security company Evina claimed to have stolen user Facebook credentials.

The company even mentioned that these 25 apps were downloaded a total of 2.34 million times at the time of their shutdown.

It was also mentioned that these apps were created by the same group. And although they all seemed different in their offers and features, they served the same purpose under the hood.

These apps came from different genres, as reported by ZDnet. While some were pedometers, image editors, video editor apps, others were background apps, flashlight applications, file managers, and cell phone games.

Here is the list of 25 Apps that have now been removed from the Google Play Store:

  1. Super Wallpapers Flashlight
  2. Padenatef
  3. Wallpaper Level
  4. Contour level wallpaper
  5. Iplayer & iwallpaper
  6. Video maker
  7. Color Wallpapers
  8. Pedometer
  9. Powerful Flashlight
  10. Super Bright Flashlight
  11. Super Flashlight
  12. Solitaire
  13. Accurate scanning of QR code
  14. Classic card game
  15. Junk file cleaning
  16. Synthetic Z
  17. File Manager
  18. Composite Z
  19. Screenshot capture
  20. Daily Horoscope Wallpapers
  21. Wuxia Reader
  22. Plus Weather
  23. Anime Live Wallpaper
  24. iHealth step counter
  25. Com.tyapp.fiction

Out of these, Super Wallpapers Flashlight and Padenatef were the only apps that were downloaded 500,000 times.

Most were downloaded 100,000 times, while the last three were downloaded about 100 times.These apps contained malicious code that detected which app was open in the background and foreground.

If it was Facebook, the malicious app shows an overlaid web browser window over the Facebook app and loads the fake login page. The user then provides their credentials and considers them a legitimate page.

All of these apps were reported to Google in May, and the company removed these apps earlier this month.

Although the Play Store is now a little safer when these apps are gone, the question remains of how these apps still get into the Play Store despite Google’s strict approval process for apps?

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