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Nov 28 2022 Malicious Android app found powering account creation service

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​A fake Android SMS application, with 100,000 downloads on the Google Play store, has been discovered to secretly act as an SMS relay for an account creation service for sites like Microsoft, Google, Instagram, Telegram, and Facebook [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Mon 28 November 2022 in BleepingComputer.

Tags: Security, Google, Mobile.

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