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Joker virus returned in Android apps, delete these apps from your phone immediately
Android devices are not considered very secure. Malware attacks keep happening on it again and again. Once again the threat of a virus has started looming on the Android device. This virus is not new. Even before this, in July last year, the Joker virus targeted more than 40 Android apps. These apps were available on the Google Play Store.
After this Google removed these apps from the Play Store. This time Joker virus has again targeted 8 new Android apps. This virus acquires the data of users through apps. These data include information like SMS, contact list, device info, OTP.
According to a report by GadgetsNow, the apps that have been infected by the Joker virus are Auxiliary Message, Fast magic SMS, Free CamScanner, Super Message, Element Scanner, Go messages, travel wallpapers and Super SMS apps.
It has been said in the report that these apps have been removed from Google Play Store but if these apps are present on the user's device then the virus will be present. If you ²have any of these apps on your device, remove them immediately.
Joker is a malware Trojan that mainly targets Android devices. In July last year, Google removed 11 apps that were infected with this virus. After this, in October, 34 apps were removed from the Play Store.
According to the report of cyber security film Zcaler, these apps have been downloaded more than 1,20,000 times. According to Zcaler, these spyware have been designed in such a way that it steals SMS messages, contact lists and information related to the device.
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