Two Android adware apps are taken out of the Play Store

Embed from Getty Images

The discovery of these two Android adware apps is a reminder for us to spring clean our Android devices. If you have Sun Pro Beauty Camera and Funny Sweet Beauty Selfie Camera apps, we're telling you to delete these now. If you need to factory reset your phones, do just that. The two apps with around 1.5 million downloads were found to have access to additional unnecessary permissions that could let them do more malicious things than only serve ads. The apps requested permission to record audio and listen to what's being said around the device at any time. Both of them also have a tool that prevents the APK from being unwrapped and analyzed. It doesn't necessarily mean the intent was to use it for malice. But it does remind us that you need to pay attention to what apps ask from you and whether said apps would need access to these features.

Source: Lifehacker Australia