Check Your Devices: New Spyware Apps on Google Play Store

Photo credit: Mika Baumeister / Unsplash. Article by Abby Ward. Tech.co – July 7, 2023.

New research has uncovered two harmful apps on the Google Play store, which have been downloaded 1.5 million times, and are capable of stealing private data, contacts and media. It’s not the first time data-harvesting apps have been found on the Play Store. The apps, called “File Manager” and “Super File Manager,” have been posing as legitimate file management applications. The apps can launch without user interaction in order to access sensitive information and send it to various malicious servers based in China. […]

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