A new research by WhiteOps has exposed 38 malicious popular apps on the Android Play Store as being unsafe. What these apps all have in common—besides their fraudulent tactics—is their focus on beauty. Most purport to be selfie apps that add beauty filters to users’ pictures, while at the same time showing ads out of context and making it nearly impossible to remove the apps themselves.
Google has removed all of these apps from the Play Store, and the researchers warn anyone who has them on their device to delete them. Here are the apps.
The apps were found to commit three types of fraud – out-of-context ads, out-of-context navigation, and removal of app icon, making it harder for users to uninstall the apps.
- Yoroko Camera
- Solu Camera
- Lite Beauty Camera
- Beauty Collage Lite
- Beauty & Filters Camera
- Photo Collage & Beauty Camera
- Beauty Camera Selfie Filter
- Gaty Beauty Camera
- Pand Selfie Beauty Camera
- Catoon Photo Editor & Selfie Beauty Camera
- Benbu Selfie Beauty Camera –
- Pinut Selfie Beauty Camera & Photo Editor
- Mood Photo Editor & Selfie Beauty Camera
- Rose Photo Editor & Selfie Beauty Camera
- Selfie Beauty Camera & Photo Editor
- Fog Selfie Beauty Camera
- First Selfie Beauty Camera & Photo Editor
- Vanu Selfie Beauty Camera
- Sun Pro Beauty Camera
- Funny Sweet Beauty Camera
- Little Bee Beauty Camera
- Beauty Camera & Photo Editor Pro
- Grass Beauty Camera
- Ele Beauty Camera
- Flower Beauty Camera
- Best Selfie Beauty Camera
- Orange Camera
- Sunny Beauty Camera
- Pro Selfie Beauty Camera
- Selfie Beauty Camera Pro
- Elegant Beauty Cam-2019