Security experts have urged people to take care after a cyber attack hit millions of people with Android phones.
The team at McAfee Mobile Security identified a new threat that is able to infect popular applications with a malicious software library and begin performing tasks without the smartphone owners' consent. McAfee research team has reported the issue to Google and 36 apps have now been blocked as the apps were still found to contain the malicious software library - as Mirror Online reports.
A McAfee spokesperson said: "The research team has found more than 60 applications containing this third-party malicious library, with more than 100 million downloads." They added: "We reported the discovered apps to Google, which took prompt action.
