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Sead Fadilpašić

Watch out for these fake messaging apps on Android — they could be spying on you

App security.

Cybersecurity researchers from ESET found a handful of malicious Android apps that were spying on people and stealing sensitive information from their mobile devices.

The researchers said that a new threat actor group, which they dubbed Virtual Invaders, was active from late 2021, creating a number of Android apps posing as communications products, which also came with the open-source XploitSPY malware. 

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