According to a report by Bleeping Laptop, Dr. Researchers at Internet have discovered a spyware named ‘Spinok’ in more than 100 Android apps, which works to steal the store personal data on the smartphone. The more dangerous thing than this is that spyware is also capable of sending stolen data to the remote server. This spyware is hidden as SDK module and looks valid at first sight.
Spinoke spyware allegedly promises to give daily rewards to users through spin wheels such as minigames. It also extracts the sensor data from the user’s phone as well as the data from the gyroscope and magnetometer and checks whether it is running in the phone.
The report states that Spieware has infected more than 100 apps on Google Play Games Gather, which have been downloaded more than 400 million times in total. However, the report also states that many of these apps have already been removed from the Play Store, if any of these apps are on your smartphone, you should remove them immediately. You can see the top 10 apps to be downloaded the most often among these and the entire list is present here.
10 most downloaded apps
Noizz: Video Scribbler with Song – 100 Million Downloads
Zapya – Report Switch, Proportion – 100 Million Downloads
MVBIT – MV Video Condition Maker – 50 Million Downloads
Biugo – Video Maker & Video Scribbler – 50 Million Downloads
vfly: video scribbler & video maker – 50 million downloads
Cashzine – Make Money Praise – 10 Million Downloads
Unstable Shed – 10 Million Downloads
Fizzo Booklet – Study offline – 10 Million Downloads
Tick: Oversee to Earn – 5 Million Downloads
Cashem: Get Rewards – 5 Million Downloads
