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To keep your cellphone safe, immediately delete these 5 Android applications

To keep your cellphone safe, immediately delete these 5 Android applications A research company revealed worrying findings regarding a number of dangerous malware hidden in five Android applications that have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times from the Google Play Store.  According to a report quoted from PhoneArena, this malware is known as a banking trojan called Anatsa, which is aimed at targeting Android users in several European countries, including the UK, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.  The Anatsa Trojan, at first, only targeted Samsung smartphone users, but then expanded to attack all brands of Android smartphones without exception. The discovery of the existence of this malware was reported by research company ThreatFabric to Bleeping Computer.  The five Android applications that store the Anatsa Trojan are Phone Cleaner – File Explorer, PDF Viewer – File Explorer, PDF Reader – Viewer & Editor, Phone Cleaner: File Expl