You have to be very attentive to what you install on your mobile and if for whatever you have installed these 25 Android apps in yours, you can now delete them, as they steal your Facebook login credentials.
Is own Google which has removed these 25 apps from the Google Play Store after French cybersecurity firm Evlina discovered they contained Facebook hacking malware. So we encourage you to review these apps one by one to verify that you do not have them installed.
The complete list of 25 malicious apps
This list of applications include flashlights, pedometers, image editors and much more. And although it seems that at first glance they are not malicious at all, it is in their internal code that malware is found that steals Facebook login information.
The way it works one of these malicious apps is to check that the Facebook app is open in the background, then insert a navigation tab with a fake Facebook login page in the app window open in the background, prompting you to enter your credentials with your account name and password.
La fake page would be in charge of copying the account and the password to send them to the remote server. This is the complete list of the 25 apps with Facebook malware:
| App name | Installation package | facilities | creation date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super Wallpapers Flashlight | com.wallpaper. flashlight.compass | 500.000 | July 23, 2019 | |
| padenatef | com.sun.newjbq.beijing.ten | 500.000 | 24 March 2020 | |
| wallpaper level | com.liapp.level | 100.000 | April 22 | |
| contour level wallpaper | com.communication.walllevel | 100.000 | April 28 | |
| iPlayer & iWallpaper | com.ldl.videoedit.iwallpapers | 100.000 | 20 March 2020 | |
| Video Maker | com.androidapp.videosedit.v | 100.000 | April 3 | |
| Color wallpapers | com.playljj.wallpapercompss | 100.000 | 26 September 2019 | |
| Pedometer | com.baidu.news.pedometer | 100.000 | 18 January 2020 | |
| Powerful flashlight | com.meituan.ybw.flash | 100.000 | December 25 2019 | |
| Super Bright Flashlight | com.tqyapp.sb.flashlight | 100.000 | 18 January 2019 | |
| Super flashlight | com.superapp.xincheng | 100.000 | 3 March 2020 | |
| Solitaire game | com.game.tqsolitaire | 100.000 | April 24 | |
| Accurate Scanning of QR Code | com.tqyapp.qr | 50.000 | February 20 | |
| classic card game | com.card.solitairenew | 50.000 | May 9th 2019 | |
| Junk File Cleaning | com.xdapp.cleaning | 50.000 | 22 March 2019 | |
| Synthetic z | com.tqygame.synthetic | 50.000 | April 6 | |
| File Manager | com.smt.filemanager | 50.000 | December 27 2017 | |
| Composite z | com.game.hcz | 50.000 | April 22 | |
| Screenshots capture | com.tianqiyang.lww.screenedit | 10.000 | July 3, 2019 | |
| Daily Horoscope Wallpapers | com.tianqiyang.lww.constellation | 10.000 | July 12, 2019 | |
| Wuxia reader | com.wuxia.reader | 10.000 | May 14th 2017 | |
| Plus weather | com.plus.android.weather | 10.000 | July 18, 2018 | |
| Anime live wallpaper | com.tqyapp.chuangtai | 100 | 10 January 2019 | |
| iHealth Step Counter | com.tiantian.lang.tencent | N/A | 18 January 2019 | |
| com.tgyapp.fiction | com.tgyapp.fiction | N/A | 1 January 1970 |
Do not trust
Supposedly any app deleted from the Play Store deletes automatically the app of the device on which it was installed, but keep in mind that sometimes we install APKs outside of the Google Play Store from repositories. So if you are one of these users, keep in mind that you may have missed installing any of these 25 applications on Android.
If for whatever reason you have found that you have installed an app from this list, we recommend that you change the password of your Facebook account now. Too uses two-step authentication and that it is one of the safest measures that we have in our hand so that our account can fall into unwanted hands.
The problem with these apps is that your code works in the background, so even if we have given permissions that can be understood as normal in an image gallery, such as access to storage, then they can give it another use to take advantage of a security breach.
And as you can see, in these apps the login from the browser is used when adding a tab, so the use of official apps is always recommended, although in this case they are very heavy and consume excessive resources. Facebook is known for this, although thanks to the improvement of our mobiles, this excessive use of the system is not so noticeable.
25 apps to check if you have them installed and thus keep your Facebook login credentials protected.
