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Firmware Secretly Sent Text, Call Data On Android Users To China

Nov

2016

Several Android smartphone models sold in the US, including via major online retailers like Amazon and BestBuy, had firmware in them that surreptitiously collected and sent detailed personally identifiable information on users and devices to a server based in China. An employee working for DARPA-funded security firm Kryptowire stumbled upon the issue when using a […]

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Malware uses Google Talk to make malicious phone calls

Jun

2016

We found a new piece of mobile malware, Android/Trojan.Pawost, that’s using Google Talk to make malicious calls. As soon as the malicious app is opened, a blank Google Talk icon pops up in the notifications of the mobile device. As long as the malicious app is running, it will continue to make calls until you […]

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