Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware that quietly sends user data to servers in China.
Is it TikTok?
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 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.
I didn’t even notice it was missing the bot marker. Good catch.
@L3s@lemmy.world you plan on fixing that any time soon?
And yet the article doesn’t say which File Manager is the spyware or what the dev is called. Great reporting.
The apps are named in the second paragraph my guy. Literally did not have to scroll after clicking the link to prove you wrong.
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?
Bot account. sigh.