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by xtanx 638 days ago
I would like to remind people of the 2016 Adups backdoor:

> According to Kryptowire, Adups engineers would have been able to collect data such as SMS messages, call logs, contact lists, geo-location data, IMSI and IMEI identifiers, and would have been able to forcibly install other apps or execute root commands on all devices.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-adups...

1 comments

How is this relevant?