You should review the permissions any app you install, and why it claims to need them, so you stay safe from bad actors.
Time and time again, malware or malicious apps find their way to Google Play Store, infecting millions of people. In this same vein, researchers have discovered spyware with ties to China hiding in the Play Store disguised as file management apps.
This week, researchers at Pradeo discovered two spyware apps with a combined 1.5 million downloads on the Google Play Store. The apps, ‘File Recovery and Data Recovery’ and ‘File Manager,’ were found to be lying about the data they collected in the “Data Safety” section of the store. Behavioral analysis discovered that these apps were actually collecting a vast amount of sensitive data and shipping it to locations in China that were identified as malicious.
