Spying via Play Store apps
2019-10-04 18:11:59.279425+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
"Why do you have an aversion to apps when for 99.44% of applications web pages work just fine, Dan?"
Egypt used Google Play in spy campaign targeting its own citizens, researchers say
The app, called IndexY, posed as a means for looking up details about phone numbers. It claimed to tap into a database of more than 160 million Arabic numbers. One of the permissions it required was access to a user’s call history and contacts. Despite the sensitivity of that data, those permissions were understandable, given the the app’s focus on phone numbers. It had about 5,000 installations before Google removed it from Play in August. Check Point doesn’t know when IndexY first became available in Play.