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Spyware App on Google Play Gets Boot, Returns Days Later

A music-streaming app offered on Google Play, harboring spyware that stole victims contacts, files and SMS messages, made its way onto the official Android app marketplace not once, but twice. The spyware was hidden in an app called Radio Balouch (also known as RB Music) The app itself was a fully-functional streaming radio app for music enthusiasts interested in listening to music from the Balouchi region an area in eastern Iran, western Pakistan and southern Afghanistan but behind the scenes, the app was stealing users personal data.

Source: https://threatpost.com/spyware-app-on-google-play-gets-boot-returns-days-later/147618/

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