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

November 28, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, arello-mobile, army times, constella intelligence, foreign adtech, intelligence authorization act for 2023, Latest Warnings, max konev, national training center, pincer trojan, pushwoosh, Reuters, The Coming Storm, u.s. army, yuri shmakov, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:08:21 +0000

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.