These applications steal your passwords and personal data if they are installed on your mobile

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Cybersecurity breaches are an increasingly widespread problem. Malware or computer viruses can infect electronic devices with dire consequences, such as the theft of passwords and personal information.

This is what Joker does, a spy Trojan virus that has been detected in a dozen mobile applications, according to Quick Heal Security Labs, a leading threat research, threat intelligence and cybersecurity company.

Quick Heal informed Google that eight applications available on Google Play were infected, and the internet giant has removed them from the download platform, although whoever has them installed on their device must remove them.

The 8 infected apps, generally from scanner, SMS or wallpaper services, are the following:

- Auxiliary Message

- Fast Magic SMS

- Super Message

- Free Cam Scanner

-Element Scanner

- Go Messages

- Travel Wallpapers

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- Super SMS

On the other hand, from Dr. Web they have also reported breaches of security in other applications, which stole login credentials and passwords from the social network Facebook using a variant of the Android.PWS.Facebook.15 Trojan:

- Photo Processing

- App Lock Keep,

- Rubbish Cleaner

- Daily Horoscope

- Horoscope Pi

- App Lock Manager

-Lockit Master

- Inwell Fitness

- PIP Photo.

These apps have also been removed from Google Play, but can still be downloaded from third-party platforms and app aggregators. It is highly recommended that users make sure that they have not installed any of these 'apps', and if they have, that they delete them from their devices.

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