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Experts found apps in Google Play serving the Overseer malware to overseas travelers

Google has removed from the official Google Play store four trojanized apps that targeted overseas travelers seeking embassy information and news for specific European countries. The malicious apps were spotted in late July by security experts from the Lookouts Security Research and Response Team, which called the threat Overseer. The apps were developed to gather user information from their Android devices, including contacts, email, GPS data, device data. One of the apps was an Embassy search tool intended to help travelers find embassies abroad. The malware was also injected as a trojan in Russian and European News applications for Android.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/51461/mobile-2/overseer-malware.html

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