Two spyware sending data of more than 1.5M users to China were found in Google Play Store

BrikoX@lemmy.zip to Android@lemdro.id – 97 points –
Two spyware sending data to China found in Google Play Store
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Because a file manager app asking for Full Disk Access is not suspicious, and Full Disk Access is one hell of a good way to get access to data to exfiltrate. There likely wouldn't even be suspicion if it also asked for Internet access: if it supports connecting to network shares, you wouldn't think twice about it having that permission.