If you have any of these 17 dangerous apps on your iPhone, delete them right now – BGR

Mobile security company Wandera issued a report Thursday afternoon identifying 17 apps in Apple?s App Store infected with clicker Trojan malware, all of which are tied to the same India-based developer.

By Friday morning, Apple confirmed they?d been booted from the App Store.

This comes one day after we noted that another security company had uncovered the existence of some 42 adware-filled Android apps that racked up millions of downloads before Google kicked them off the Google Play Store.

From Wandera?s report, are these 17 iOS apps the firm identified as being infected with malware that performs ad fraud by either making frequent connections to ad networks or websites? which is done to artificially boost visitor counts ? or to generate pay-per-click revenue. Wandera cites a statement from Apple as confirming that the apps have been removed for having code that violates the App Store guidelines by allowing for the artificial click-through of ads and that Apple has updated its detection tools.

Here are all of the apps in question:

  • RTO Vehicle Information
  • EMI Calculator

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