Meitu, a photographic application that only serves to steal your data

We return to Android with little more or less than the same problems as always. Security is the pending task of Android without any doubt, and the latest scandal arrives today. And it is that Google Play Store is often one of the most popular sources of viruses of the Google operating system. Today we want to be alerted about Meitu, a photographic filter application that may seem very interesting, but whose sole purpose is to get all the data of your device and traffic with them. If you have Meitu installed, take no more than ten seconds to erase it.

This application is hidden behind a photographic filter editor that has become quite popular in China and has exceeded its borders. However, the application has malware that is capable of taking complete control of our Android device. In this way, they will not only have access to the device, but also to our phone numbers, passwords that we use from Facebook to our bank ... In short, a disaster for security that can cause serious problems just for using an application, it has never been so easy to expose hundreds of millions of users.

At least it seems that the application has not become too popular, however, this is all the information from our device that the application sends to servers in China:

• The exact operating system
• IMEI
• Mac address
• Android version
• Language
• Country
• City
• Operator
• Connection type
• SIM data
• Longitude and latitude
• IP adress
• ROOT status

What amounts to a real disaster in a nutshell. So you should be considering getting rid of the application, changing all the passwords of the applications that you enter from your device and that could impair your privacy and possibly even restore the operating system.