{"id":1379,"date":"2019-03-31T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:27:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T01:27:33","slug":"researchers-find-google-play-store-apps-were-actually-government-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/researchers-find-google-play-store-apps-were-actually-government-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Were Actually Government Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you may about Apple&#8217;s infamous app-approval process. But Google Play Store&#8217;s permissive approach is what allows such apps to exists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/43z93g\/hackers-hid-android-malware-in-google-play-store-exodus-esurv\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1553788387096-android-malware.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Security researchers have found a new kind of government malware that was hiding in plain sight within apps on Android\u2019s Play Store. And they appear to have uncovered a case of lawful intercept gone wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/43z93g\/hackers-hid-android-malware-in-google-play-store-exodus-esurv\">Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Were Actually Government Malware<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/blokt.com\/guides\/what-is-spyware#What_is_Spyware\">spyware\/malware<\/a> and some techniques to prevent infection <a href=\"https:\/\/blokt.com\/guides\/what-is-spyware\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you may about Apple&#8217;s infamous app-approval process. But Google Play Store&#8217;s permissive approach is what allows such apps to exists. Security researchers have found a new kind of government malware that was hiding in plain sight within apps on Android\u2019s Play Store. And they appear to have uncovered a case of lawful intercept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}