22 dangerous Android apps you should uninstall immediately

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22 dangerous Android apps you should uninstall immediately

Earlier this week, Google announced that it took down over 700,000 bad Android apps during the year 2017. The number is 70% more than the apps taken down in the year 2016. Malicious apps on Google Play store have been a long-time concern and pose huge risk to Android smartphone users.

Recently, cybersecurity software company Check Point too listed 22 flashlight and utility apps on Google Play Store that fooled people into believing that they were useful apps. Dubbed as LightsOut, the apps have been downloaded between 1.5 million to 7.5 million times.

To trick people, hackers gave the apps names like WiFi Password Pro, Super Flashlight Lite, Voice Recorder Pro, and Brightest LED Flashlight-Pro. According to Checkpoint, once downloaded, the apps' scripts overrides the user’s decision to disable ads showing outside of a legitimate context, and then, in many of the apps, hides its icon to hinder efforts to remove it. said Check Point in its research.

Here are the 22 malicious apps listed by Check Point:

Note: Check Point notified Google about these malicious apps, and the company claims to have removed them from the Google Play store.

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Smart Swipe

Package Name: com.smart.swipe.whitedot
Minimum downloads: 50,000
Maximum downloads: 100,000

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Realtime Booster

Package Name: com.wifi.network.realtime
Minimum downloads: 10,000
Maximum downloads: 50,000

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File Transfer Pro

Package Name: com.wifi.network.realtime
Minimum downloads: 10,000
Maximum downloads: 50,000

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Network Guard

Package Name: com.network.guard.tool
Minimum downloads: 1,000
Maximum downloads: 5,000

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LED Flashlight

Package Name: com.brightest.ledflashlight
Minimum downloads: 1,000
Maximum downloads: 5,000

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Voice Recorder Pro

Package Name: com.arc.voice.recorder.pro
Minimum downloads: 1,000
Maximum downloads: 5,000

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Free WiFi Pro

Package Name: pro.freewifi.password
Minimum downloads: 10,000
Maximum downloads: 50,000

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Call Recorder Pro

Package Name: com.call.recorder.pro
Minimum downloads: 100,000
Maximum downloads: 500,000

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Call Recorder

Package Name: com.solidunion.callrecorder
Minimum downloads: 1,000,000
Maximum downloads: 5,000,000

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Realtime Cleaner

Package Name: com.realtime.app.cleaner
Minimum downloads: 10,000
Maximum downloads: 50,000

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Super Flashlight lite

Package Name: com.nfl.flashlight
Minimum downloads: 5,000
Maximum downloads: 10,000

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22 dangerous Android apps you should uninstall immediately