Specifically, security experts at Pradeo have discovered two malicious applications on the Android platform, "File Recovery and Data Recovery" and "File Manager", which can silently steal user data such as device information, contacts, real-time location, email accounts, image, audio and video files.
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| Two malicious applications have just been discovered by security experts at Pradeo. |
Accordingly, both of these malicious applications on CH Play come from the same developer. Especially in the description, the developer affirms that it does not collect any data from users.
However, Bleeping Computer website confirmed that these two malicious applications have silently stolen a series of user data. Then, they automatically send the above data to servers in China.
What's worth noting is that these two malicious apps can automatically hide from the home screen, making it harder to find and remove them from the phone.
After the above information was published, Google quickly removed these two malicious software from the CH Play application store. Before being removed, they had attracted more than 1.5 million downloads.
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