The Ministry of Defence in India has issued a new order to the Indian armed forces asking officers and all security personnel to remove, uninstall over 42 Chinese apps as these have been classified as ‘spyware’. The list includes popular apps like Mi Store found on all Xiaomi smartphones, WeChat which is a popular messaging app from China, ShareIt which is used for file transfers and one of the most popular apps in India.
chinese apps have once again come under the security scanner in India and this time there are more than 40 apps in the list. In a country wide advisory issued to all military and paramilitary formations, the government has expressed fear that several Chinese apps are either spyware or malicious malware and has asked officials to ensure that men under their control delete these apps.
The Union Home Ministry formed the advisory with inputs from intelligence agencies like the R&AW and NTRO. It asks personnel to immediately uninstall these apps and format their phone.
As mentioned above, there are more than 40 app Chinese apps in this list including few popular names like Mi Store from Xiaomi, Weibo and WeChat. Here is the full list.
1. Weibo
2. WeChat
3. SHAREit
4. Truecaller
5. UC News
6. UC Browser
7. BeautyPlus
8. NewsDog
9. VivaVideo- QU Video Inc
10. Parallel Space
11. APUS Browser
12. Perfect Corp
13. Virus Cleaner (Hi Security Lab)
14. CM Browser
15. Mi Community
16. DU recorder
17. Vault-Hide
18. YouCam Makeup
19. Mi Store
20. CacheClear DU apps studio
21. DU Battery Saver
22. DU Cleaner
23. DU Privacy
24. 360 Security
25. DU Browser
26. Clean Master - Cheetah Mobile
27. Baidu Translate
28. Baidu Map
29. Wonder Camera
30. ES File Explorer
31. Photo Wonder
32. QQ International
33. QQ Music
34. QQ Mail
35. QQ Player
36. QQ NewsFeed
37. WeSync
38. QQ Security Centre
39. SelfieCity
40. Mail Master
41. Mi Video call-Xiaomi
42. QQ Launcher
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