Chinese ad platform secretly stole phone data from Android devices

Minimalist · Aug 22, 2017

A popular Chinese advertising software development kit, used on over 500 Google Play apps with millions of downloads each, spied on unsuspecting users and developers and secretly took data including GPS data, device identifiers and call logs.

Investigating suspicious traffic during a review of apps that communicate with IPs and servers that have a history of serving malware, researchers from mobile security company Lookout saw an app downloading large, encrypted files after requests to an endpoint used by the Igexin ad software development kit, behavior typical of malware acting after a temporarily clean app installation.
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https://www.cyberscoop.com/igexin-android-data-lookout/

IvoShoen · Aug 24, 2017

More: http://thehackernews.com/2017/08/an...Security Blog)&_m=3n.009a.1564.fh0ao083vi.xtq

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