Researchers report >4,000 apps that secretly record audio and steal logs

Ars Technica
By Dan GoodinAug 12, 2017, 11:00 am179 pts
(credit: Ron Amadeo) A single threat actor has aggressively bombarded Android users with more than 4,000 spyware apps since February, and in at least three cases the actor snuck the apps into Google's official Play Market, security researchers said Thursday. Soniac was one of the three apps that made its way…

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