There has been spyware discovered in the Google Play Store that poses as altered versions of Telegram and is intended to collect private data from infected Android devices.
Igor Golovin, a security researcher with Kaspersky, claims that the apps have malicious capabilities that allow them to collect and transmit names, user IDs, contacts, phone numbers, and chat messages to a server under the control of an attacker.
The Russian cybersecurity company has given the operation the codename “Evil Telegram.”Before Google removed them, the apps had been downloaded millions of times overall read more Millions Infected by Spyware Hidden in Fake Telegram Apps on Google Play.
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