While around the world IT is trying to rikuperohet the problem is in the connection to CrowdStrike, the time has come to return to in the discussion of the scope of cyber security in the following pages. In fact, they have been discovered to 5 applications for Android that are spying on and stealing the information for many years already.
As reported by the security experts at Securelist Norton and is reported by PhoneArena, in the end of July, 2024, in this period there is a return to the platform, the espionage Mandrake. For those of you not in the know, these operations are evil, which started in the year 2016, it was revealed for the first time in the 2020, from Bitdefender, and you are able to bypass our security controls that are associated with Google Play.
Five of the new applications that integrate the spyware that was sent out via the Play Store, between 2022 and 2024, and was downloaded more than 32,000 times, the midst of them." One of the areas most affected is in the Country, along with Canada, Germany, Meksikën, the United Kingdom, Spain, and the Perunë. In other words, the problem is wide spread in our country.
What are the apps to uninstall right away, if they are present on your Android device? Security experts report that the presence of spyware in a AirFS, Astro Explorer, Amber, CryptoPulsing and a Brain Matrix. The applications of the most downloaded among them, to be shown they are AirFS (30,305 fixture, it's passed as a service for sharing files via Wi-Fi), and the CryptoPulsing (790 wiring).
Now, apps have been removed from the Play Store, and as you can imagine, but for many years on espionage Mandrake was undisturbed, and in this context, by the spy and steal information from the victims, who did not doubt. In addition, the applications with the intent of evil in this way you can get it also permits you to install other applications or to run them in the background.
Even going up to the register and the display, the collection of cookies and to the sending of the information to be false in the Google Play, all in order to obtain the credentials and downloading the application to the other with the intent to harm. However, it seems that the people of the evil trying to attack with this method, only the goals that they consider to be important, based on the consistency of the data that can be received.
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