TrendMicro has discovered 36 apps in Google Play that execute unwanted behavior:
These apps posed as useful security tools under the names Security Defender, Security Keeper, Smart Security, Advanced Boost, and more. They also advertised a variety of capabilities: scanning, cleaning junk, saving battery, cooling the CPU, locking apps, as well as message security, WiFi security, and so on.
The apps were actually able to perform these simple tasks, but they also secretly harvested user data, tracked user location, and aggressively pushed advertisements.
The apps in question have been removed from Google Play.
Related: Google Pauses Crackdown on Apps That Use Accessibility Features
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 05 2018, @08:42PM
Then set the IP addresses of all the mobile analytics servers to 127.0.0.1.
I once attended a presentation by some mobile analytics people. Despite that the developer SDKs as well as actually using analytics were both free, one of the speakers showed a photo of her company's data center.
Data centers are expensive. Who pays for all that information?
Consider the challenges faced by closeted gay Republican politicians.
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