Apps on Google Play with 1.5 million installs found sending sensitive data to China
Both apps stated they collect no data on the Google Play website; however, the security researchers said that “both spyware collected very personal data from their targets, to send them to a large number of destinations which are mostly located in China and identified as malicious”.
The first app, “File Recovery & Data Recovery,” had over a million installs, while File Manager had over 5,00,000. Photo credit: Pixabay