Malware Alert : Remove These Malicious Apps From Your Phone Or Tablet

According to security research firm Bitdefender, 35 malicious apps on the Play Store with more than two million downloads are attempting to steal personal information and showing unwanted ads. The applications spread over to many popular categories, including GPS apps, photo filters, and wallpapers. They have all amassed tens or even hundreds of thousands of downloads and utilize a variety of cunning strategies to remain undetected. You need to immediately uninstall any of them from your phone if you have any. Be aware that some of them may have changed their names or icons to resemble the Settings app on your smartphone.

Along with stealing user passwords and financial information, the hackers who are responsible for infected programmes also monetize their presence on the Play Store by selling advertisements. These adverts are annoying in addition to having direct links to malware. While many trustworthy programmes show users advertisements, the 35 risky apps that Bitdefender's anti-malware research team discovered show advertisements using their own framework, which means users who use them may also become infected with malware.

Here's the list of apps - If any of these applications are currently installed on your Android smartphone or tablet, you need to remove them right now

1. Led Theme - Colorful Keyboard
2. Media Volume Slider
3. GPS Location Maps
4. Colorize Photos
5. Secret Horoscope
6. Girls Art Wallpaper
7. Keyboard - Fun Emoji, Sticker
8. Fast Emoji Keyboard
9. Smart QR Scanner
10. GPS Location Finder
11. Grad Wallpapers - 3D Backdrops
12. Stock Wallpapers - 4K & HD
13. QR Creator 
14. Photopix Effects - Art Filter
15. Image Warp Camera
16. My GPS Location
17. Smart QR Creator
18. Smart GPS Location
19. Create Sticker for Whatsapp
20. Cat Simulator
21. Big Emoji - Keyboard
22. Art Filter - Deep Photoeffect
23. Secret Astrology
24. Animated Sticker Master
25. Phi 4K Wallpaper - Anime HD
26. Engine Wallpapers - Live & 3D 
27. EffectMania - Photo Editor 
28. Walls light - Wallpapers Pack
29. Smart Wifi 
30. Math Solver - Camera Helper 
31. Volume Control 
32. Art Girls Wallpaper HD
33. Personality Charging Show
34. Colorize Old Photo 
35. Sleep Sounds 

Alert: Instagram Can Track Your Passwords And Private Credit Card Information

 

According to a new report, the Meta-owned photo-sharing service Instagram has the ability to watch users' actions, text selections, and even text input, such passwords and private credit card information.

According to Felix Krause's investigation, Instagram and Facebook both utilise their own in-app browsers on iOS instead of the one provided by Apple for third-party apps.

Most applications load webpages via Apple's Safari, but Instagram and Facebook have been utilising their own in-app browser, according to MacRumors.

Instagram and Facebook insert a tracking JavaScript code known as "Meta Pixel" into all of the links and webpages seen with their specially developed browser, which is still based on WebKit.

Krause discovered that Meta had complete flexibility with that code to track users' interactions without getting their permission. According to the study, this enables Instagram to keep tabs on everything that occurs on other websites without the user's or the website provider's approval.

In order to track all user interactions, such as button and link clicks, text selections, screenshots, and any form inputs, such as passwords, addresses, and credit card numbers, the Instagram app injects tracking code into every website shown, including those that are opened when clicking on advertisements.

Krause made the point that, in contrast to using Apple's built-in Safari, it requires a considerable amount of work for businesses like Meta to create and maintain their own in-app browser.

 Meta claims on its developer portal that , "Meta Pixel" is designed to "track visitor activity on your website" by monitoring all events a user does within their custom-built browser. There is no evidence that Meta, which owns Instagram, has gathered the user data it is capable of collecting.

 

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While Audible offers a wide range of content, including radio and TV programs, the company is best known for its offering of what could once be called “books on tape” — now known as, more appropriately, digital audiobooks. Launched over 25 years ago, Audible can help you grab your favorite audiobooks on Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows, and Kindle, with the push of a download button.

Audible's content includes more than 200,000 audio programs from audiobook publishers, broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers and business information providers. Content includes books of all genres, as well as radio shows (classic and current), speeches, interviews, stand-up comedy, and audio versions of periodicals such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

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