An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat
Original article from May: https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/
An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat
Original article from May: https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/
Some more information:
I looked at four different Samsung phones today (physically in the region). 2x phones bought in Europe. 2x phones bought in the region.
All non-rooted, stock android.
None of the phones had Aura installed. Two of them had AppCloud installed (one EU phone, one phone from the region) and it couldn’t be disabled as easily as the other phone. (I haven’t tried ADB, etc. yet, just the standard uninstallation procedure).