Tag: snapchat
Android Malware Posing as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Snapchat – May 15th
The SonicWall Capture Labs team reported on threat actors developing malicious, fake Android apps to impersonate Google, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and X. When downloaded by victims and once permissions have been granted to use them, illegitimate apps aim to steal sensitive data from Android devices, such as contacts, text messages, call logs, and passwords.
Facebook’s “Project Ghostbusters” Discovered to Spy on Snapchat Traffic – March 27th
A federal court in California earlier this week released documents that revealed Facebook's 2016 "Project Ghostbusters" campaign. The campaign was designed to mine Snapchat user data to understand their behavior better. The project was a part of Facebook's In-App Action Panel (IAPP) program, which used techniques to intercept and decrypt encrypted app traffic from Snapchat and, later, from YouTube and Amazon.