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Chinese handset manufacturers are putting spyware on Android products to glean bank account numbers
Extreme Tech savvy mobile folks:
It looks like Chinese handset manufacturers are putting spyware (teddymobile) on Android products to glean bank account numbers, titles, and a lot of other private information: |
[Twitter] The @OnePlus #clipboard app contains a strange file called badword.txt 🤔
In these words, we can find: Chairman, Vice President, Deputy Director, Associate Professor, Deputy Heads, General, Private Message, shipping, Address, email, ...
https://pastebin.com/kfvJWKJB
| With the lost FBI text messages we see the FBI using Android. One hopes they were smart enough to WIPE the whole phone before using and put a clean version of Android approved by the FBI on the phone. Sadly I can't credit them with showing that much caution. The person who pointed this out to me used to be head of 1/2 of the Android product line at a major manufacturer so it was serious enough for him to warn his friends. |
Posted by: 3dc 2018-01-27 |
