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Gold for the Athletes, tears for your mobile phone?

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By Estelle Josso on August, 11 2016

2016 Rio Olympic Games are on.

Follow the events, get latest results, cheer up for your national team or favorite athletes. There are App for this.

BUT…

Alert Security on your mobile phone : Watch out! Some risky Apps have infected Apps Stores and are hiding behind Olympic Games Apps.

Here is a list of the most risky Apps Pradeo found and their suspicious behaviors.

Good Games and may the best team win!

 

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Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Version : 1.0.38

SHA1: e82c23583dddf8cdf0870bbdefb63aa392663ca7

The following data are sent to the url : https://graph.%s (facebook Graph api)

  • User's phone number sent over the Network
  • Information about installed applications sent over the Network 

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Olympic Games

Version : 6.7.29

SHA1: db2ff646f9651cf6bff766a7249cf674d08810cd

  • Information about installed applications sent over the Network
  • Device identifier (imei) sent over the Network

 

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 Rio Go

Version: 6.7.29

SHA1: 6ce942c74bb0b9691dc889a85908524d840db883

  • Information about installed applications sent over the Network
  • Device identifier (imei) sent over the Network

JO4.pngOlympic Girl's SPA

Version: 1.0.1

SHA1: d733099389a7a53de272843b9961749df8ccc9b0

  • Information about installed applications sent over the Network
  • Device identifier (imei) sent over the Network

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Brazil 2016

Version: 1.6

SHA1: 732c65b9cdd21acc747f133a0a77e5b422d4e9ce

  • The application sent the user's location towards another destination than legitimate APIs

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