You may be hacked if you have the following 22 apps on your smartphone!

Google Play store is the main storage for all android apps but now a days it has become a challenge to protect its app. Whether they contain harmful viruses or not, but hackers are always a step ahead. A group of viruses which are embedded with different apps got into play store within these two years, which in return gained access to the user's phone.

In a study by antivirus provider Sophos, more than 20 apps with more than 2 million downloads were discovered on the Play Store, containing virus that allows them to download files from a hacker controlled-server.

These apps include non-description titles like Zombie Killer, Sparkle Flashlight, Table Soccer and have more than 1 million downloads since they appeared on the store in 2016. According to the antivirus provider Sophos, it was a year later in March this year that Sparkle Flashlight and 2 other apps were updated to include the malicious Virus that can provide the hacker to access to the user's phone. The other 19 apps were introduced to the Play Store with the background downloader at the start, sometime after June this year.

Google has removed these apps, but only by November this year. Before November attackers were using them to serve ads generating clicks to earn money. Once opened, these ads would run continuously in background without the knowledge of the user, even if tried to close forcefully, draining both Internet data and batteries.

Since these viruses provide connection to the hacker, they can also be used to force a smartphone to run harmful code, stealing a person’s data in the process.

While Google has deleted these malicious apps from its Google Play Store, the person that downloaded it before and is still using it is still getting infected.  

So if you’ve downloaded any of these following apps, you need to remove immediately -

1) Sparkle Flashlight

2) Snake Attack

3) Math Solver

 4) Shape Sorter

5) Tak A Trip

6) Magnifeye

 7) Join Up

 8) Zombie Killer

 9) Space Rocket

 10) Neon Pong

 11) Just Flashlight

 12) Table Soccer

 13) Cliff Diver

14) Box Stack

15) Jelly Slice

16) AK Blackjack

17) Color Tiles

18) Animal Match

19) Roulette Mania

20) HexaFall

21) HexaBlocks

22) PairZap