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Two Spyware Apps on Google Play with 1.5 Million Users Sending Data to China.

#iip_updates . #Information_is_Power . #we_inform_the_uninformed . Read more here https://informationispowah.blogspot.com/2023/07/two-spyware-apps-on-google-play-with-15.html in the link. Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware, putting the privacy and security of up to 1.5 million Android users at risk. These apps engage in deceptive behaviour and secretly send sensitive user data to malicious servers in China. Pradeo, a leading mobile security company, has uncovered this alarming infiltration. The report shows that both spyware apps, namely  File Recovery and Data Recovery  (com.spot.music.filedate) with over 1 million installs, and  File Manager  (com.file.box.master.gkd) with over 500,000 installs, are developed by the same group. These seemingly harmless Android apps use similar malicious tactics and automatically launch when the device reboots without user input. Contrary to what they claim on the Google Play Store, where both apps