Google is doing nothing about these hugely popular malicious apps, so just delete them yourself

UPDATE: Five whole days after the publishing of the original report pointing the finger at all of those app listed below for all kinds of shady practices and shenanigans, Google appears to have finally removed two of the three titles that were still live on the Play Store at our previous check.

While that’s certainly a (small) step in the right direction, it also means at least one malicious app (that will continue to remain unnamed) is still available for Google Play download… after racking up over a million installs. There’s really nothing more to say here than… our original article follows below.

Another day, another damning in-depth report regarding the (lack of) Google Play security uncovers a huge new list of seemingly legit Android apps that are in fact to be avoided at all costs. 

Here are all the new apps you need to avoid, delete, and never again install on your phone

Just how many different photo editors you need to realize your camera is simply not that great? Aren’t there enough well-established, well-reviewed, and all-around awesome keyboard tools available from respected developers and companies to discourage you from ever trying to find the “next big” alternative? Don’t you have something better to do than download something called “Funny Caller” or “Funny Wallpapers” on your phone?

Of course, no amount of research and care can prepare you for the occasional “super-virus”, which somehow gets to be popular, earn solid reviews, and slip through the Play Store cracks for an inexplicably long period of time. 

What is Google even doing?!

For the most part, not much, watching helplessly as malicious titles like the above enter the Play Store and rip off some users before cybersecurity experts flag these apps, at which point many of them disappear without a trace.

No, we’re not going to show you any of the three malicious apps still available… at least until they’re removed.

At least three of the apps listed above, which will remain unnamed for fairly obvious reasons, are in that situation at the time of this writing, running free in everyone’s most trusted Android app store despite having been proven guilty of various egregious money and data-stealing tactics.