Current Events > A lot of malware is wasted on stealing and scamming.

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5zan7/android-malware-paypal

People must be hurting for dough.
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Yeah malware should go back to it's intended purpose of only doing good things

Once installed, the malware asks the user for permission to Enable Statistics. This innocent sounding function actually allows the malware, and its creators, to receive notifications when the user is interacting with certain apps, and inspect the content of the window theyre interacting with. In other words, this allows the cybercriminals to take control of the phone remotely when the user opens certain apps.

...... uhhhhh

why does this setting name have nothing to do with what it actually does and why is this setting something easily toggleable by the user in the first place
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kirbymuncher posted...

Once installed, the malware asks the user for permission to Enable Statistics. This innocent sounding function actually allows the malware, and its creators, to receive notifications when the user is interacting with certain apps, and inspect the content of the window theyre interacting with. In other words, this allows the cybercriminals to take control of the phone remotely when the user opens certain apps.

...... uhhhhh

why does this setting name have nothing to do with what it actually does and why is this setting something easily toggleable by the user in the first place

I'm also confused about how they determined that receiving notifications and looking at the user's screen is the same thing as remotely controlling the device.
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