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Multi-part Android spyware lurked on Google Play Store for 4 years, posing as a bunch of legit-looking apps

Charlie Clark Silver badge

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Not with a simple scan, no. But that's true of a lot of malware: scanning the code will not necessarily tell you how it behaves, you can only look for some tell tale signs. You need to run it in a sandbox to see what kind of connections it makes outgoing and incoming.

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