Security News > 2017 > August > More than 1,000 Spyware Apps Found On Android App Stores (The Hackers News)
2017-08-11 02:00
If you think you are downloading apps from Google Play Store and you are secure, then watch out! Someone has managed to flood third-party app stores and Google Play Store with more than a thousand malicious apps, which can monitor almost anything a user does on their mobile device from silently recording calls to make outbound calls without the user’s interaction. Dubbed SonicSpy, the
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