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Watch out! If you have any of the below-mentioned file managers and photography apps installed on your Android phone-even if downloaded from the official Google Store store⁠-you have been hacked and being tracked. These newly detected malicious Android apps are Camero, FileCrypt, and callCam that are believed to be linked to Sidewinder APT, a sophisticated hacking group specialized in cyber espionage attacks.

At least three malicious apps with device-hijacking exploits have made it onto the Google Play Store in recent weeks. The malicious apps were Camero, FileCrypt, and callCam, so check if you still have them installed.

A malicious application in the Google Play store targeted a recently patched zero-day vulnerability that affects multiple Android devices, including Google's Pixel phones. Tracked as CVE-2019-2215, the vulnerability was disclosed as a zero-day in October by Google Project Zero security researcher Maddie Stone.

Mobile application ToTok has been reinstated to the Google Play app ecosystem, after it was removed last month due to claims that it was being used for government espionage. Despite the app's popularity, it was quickly take down from Google Play and the Apple App Store after a report from the New York Times in December claimed that the app is actually being used by the government of the United Arab Emirates as a spy tool used to track users' conversations and location.

The popular UAE-developed mobile application ToTok has returned to the Google Play Store after it was removed on claims it was being used for government spying, the company said Saturday. Google and Apple removed the app from their online marketplaces last month after The New York Times reported ToTok allowed the UAE government to track the conversations, movements and other details of people who installed it on their phone.

Labeled "StrandHogg," the vulnerability discovered by the mobile security vendor Promon could give hackers access to users' photos, contacts, phone logs, and more.

Check Point researchers found that hundreds of marquee Android mobile apps still contain vulnerabilities that allow remote code executive even if users update.

Google has partnered with mobile security companies ESET, Lookout and Zimperium to identify potentially harmful and unwanted apps before they are listed on Google Play. “The Android ecosystem is...

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