The culprits
The issue
Beyond simply flooding your phone with ads and slowing down its performance or, well, ticking you off while you’re trying to have a little fun with some casual card games or video editing tools, all these apps are currently hiding or have hidden at some point in their existence the malicious ability to collect information on files stored on your devices sans user approval.
This is an incredibly popular app that you should probably delete or avoid downloading from Google Play.
Even worse, the spyware-containing marketing SDK (software development kit) attached to these apps can transfer files from your Android phone to remote servers without your knowledge, as well as gather all kinds of sensitive data related to different sensors that can then be used to track your every move, both on and offline.
The truly scary thing about the above list is that it includes many titles still available for Play Store installation, the first ten of which are hugely popular and not that poorly reviewed.
