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Android apps with millions of downloads have been found running ads constantly, draining battery and causing all sorts of other problems for users. The Mobile Research Team at antivirus vendor McAfee discovered 43 apps of this kind and reported them to Google for violation of Play Store policies. They have now been removed from the […]

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Published to Google Play by the same developer, the two applications, ‘File Recovery and Data Recovery’ and ‘File Manager’, were seen launching without user interaction and silently exfiltrating a trove of sensitive user information. According to Pradeo, the two spyware apps would send out users’ contact list, media content, real-time location, network provider, country code, […]

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Android-based phone monitoring app LetMeSpy has disclosed a security breach that allowed an unauthorized third-party to steal sensitive data associated with thousands of Android users. “As a result of the attack, the criminals gained access to email addresses, telephone numbers and the content of messages collected on accounts,” LetMeSpy said in an announcement on its […]

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