Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware that quietly sends user data to servers in China.
The fishy apps are File Recovery & Data Recovery and File Manager, according to an alert this week from Pradeo, a leading mobile cybersecurity company. The apps, both from the same developer, are programmed to launch without any input from the user and quietly send sensitive user data to servers based in China.
Thank you for posting this, since OP wasn’t kind enough to include it in the post description.
I didn’t even notice it was missing the bot marker. Good catch.
@L3s@lemmy.world you plan on fixing that any time soon?
I noticed that after my comment. Still a low quality post from a bot seemingly farming for clicks through to articles, where a description summary from a human or better parsing from the bot could have improved the quality of the post.
You mean Threads?
Yes I know… The cheapest shot.
This is interesting, I cannot reply to iAmTheTot’s comment, but there’s no issue commenting on any other comments. Is it because they’re on kbin?
I’m sure it was an honest mistake. Who hasn’t tried setting up a println("Hello World") and accidentally forwarded all their keylogger data to the CCP?
Is it TikTok?
Bot account. sigh.
