Android spyware with over 1.5 million downloads sends your data to China

Technology@lemmy.world – 174 points – 1 years ago

Android spyware with over 1.5 million downloads sends your data to China — delete these apps right now

Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware that quietly sends user data to servers in China.

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The fishy apps are File Recovery & Data Recovery and File Manager, according to an alert this week from Pradeo, a leading mobile cybersecurity company. The apps, both from the same developer, are programmed to launch without any input from the user and quietly send sensitive user data to servers based in China.

Thank you for posting this, since OP wasn't kind enough to include it in the post description.

OP is a bot account apparently.

I noticed that after my comment. Still a low quality post from a bot seemingly farming for clicks through to articles, where a description summary from a human or better parsing from the bot could have improved the quality of the post.

Agreed, the amount of clicks for the article would increase exponentially if they actually added context for those of us who never click these links.

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