U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer [telecom]

From	Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.dcom.telecom
Subject	U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer [telecom]
Date	2022-11-29 22:03 +0000
Organization	The Telecom Digest
Message-ID	<20221129220353.GA916664@telecomdigest.us> (permalink)

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November 28, 2022

A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army
and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were
integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company
called Pushwoosh, which claims to be based in the United States. But
that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In
2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan,
malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text
messages from Android mobile devices.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/11/u-s-govt-apps-bundled-russian-code-with-ties-to-mobile-malware-developer/

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