Do you want your Android to be safe? Don’t use any of these 101 suspicious apps

Android security, even if it is improved, does not offer much confidence to users. It is not uncommon in revealed situations where malicious applications are found in the Play Store and that manage to steal user data.

A recent discovery has made another serious problem visible. A developer network has a list of 101 malicious applications that can compromise the security of users and their smartphones.

A new list of suspicious applications.
Recent research revealed something that was abnormal on the Google Play Store. Amid millions of applications, a strange and secret network of 27 programmers was found, which has 101 applications published and available for installation.
Although no abnormal behavior was detected, these applications have some strange features. They all appear to be copies of other applications already present in the Android store and already have more than 69 million installations.

List of programmers and malicious applications






Developer name
Facilities
No. of applications


Virgilo Malley
7,060,000
5 5


Daniel Malley
1,701,000
5 5


Alex Joe
10,000,000
one


Hudson parker
3,001,000
4 4


Wilfred Wessner
1,150,000
3


Adaline Garraway
305,000
5 5


Armel Bilton
6,000,000
two


Noble noble
2,100,505
6 6


Arrow Frankie
6,000,000
two


Lukas Podolskies
820,500
6 6


Rusty Mari
5,500,000
two


Weldon Hazeltine
1,006,110
6 6


Jacinto Macias
2,101,100
5 5


Flavia Sleeman
70,511
5 5


Douglas Morace
125,000
4 4


Dulcie Lawing
121,015
6 6


Kylian Mbapee
6,000,000
two


ProCam - HD Camera
1,710,000
6 6


Evan Well
516,060
6 6


Samuels Dynamo
2,100,000
4 4


Fruit VPN: better connection
5,000,000
one


Carrie Waters
3,000,000
3


Antoine Kenyon
2,105,000
4 4


Darry Cowlly
1,010,000
two


Gaspard Aden
51,000
two


Alfred Persen
100,000
one


Hwan seon
110,000
3


Total
68,763,801
101





Android far from being secure
Of course, there is much more that caught the attention of those who carried out this analysis. All apps require too many permissions and all developers have the same privacy policy, published in a Google document. Also, support sites are not all the same.
On the other hand, these applications are clearly obvious copies of the most popular ones. Just place them next to each other and the similarities are obvious. In the permissions field, it's weird to have a voice recording app asking for camera access or a memory optimization app asking for location access.

Curiosity about programmers
Another point that caught the attention of researchers is the name of the programmers. They seem to choose names of athletes from various countries, which are then combined into seemingly random pairs.
These apps are most likely only collecting user data. They are then sold to anyone interested in having that information for various purposes. Once again, Android is exposed and its users are vulnerable.