9 apps you should delete from your iPhone

We hear a lot about malware and adware apps that look like Android apps, but it’s rare for fake iOS apps to surpass Apple’s security and curation. But HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence & Research team has found 9 iPhone apps that, when installed, “commit several different kinds of advertising fraud.”

9 apps you should delete from your iPhone

In a lengthy blog post about the Charybdis and Scylla operations, researchers found that more than 10 iOS apps and about 75 Android apps “contained code that pretended to be other, legitimate games for advertising purposes, helping to keep their operation quiet.” The apps in question used code obfuscation to make fake clicks and fraudulent ads on hidden screens that are “loaded with ads, tricking advertisers into paying for fake impressions to an audience that was never there.”

All of the apps that the researchers found were copies of popular games that have since been taken off the App Store:

  • Fire-Wall
  • Loot the Castle
  • Ninja Critical Hit
  • Racing Legend 3D
  • Rope Runner
  • Run Bridge
  • Shinning Gun
  • Tony Runs
  • Wood Sculptor

The researchers didn’t uncover any security risk, but background processes and transmission could impact performance and battery life. Additionally, the teams warn that the developers “may update the apps to change how they work, so removing the apps is your best bet.”

One of the easiest ways to get rid of an app is to find it in Settings:

  • Click on Settings.
  • Go to Settings > iPhone Storage > General (or iPad Storage).
  • Check your list of apps (which are sorted with the ones taking up the most space at the top).
  • To get rid of an app, tap it, and then on the next page, choose “Delete App.”

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