Plus: Google’s location snooping ends in a $391 million settlement, Russian code sneaks into US government apps, and the World Cup apps set off alarms.
Thousands of mobile apps in the Google Play and Apple App Store include code modules from a company called Pushwoosh that claims to be based in Washington, DC, but that Reuters reports is actually based in Russia. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention incorporated Pushwoosh code into seven of its public apps and removed the service after learning of Reuters' findings. The CDC said that it had been misled about where Pushwoosh was headquartered.
Though it is unclear if Pushwoosh ever abused its position in apps distributed in the US or elsewhere, the Russian government has a track record of conducting “software supply chain” attacks for intelligence gathering as well as destructive attacks on its enemies.Data and privacy regulators in Norway, France, and Germany have all warned that World Cup attendees should not download Qatar’s two World Cup apps or should do so on a wiped device if necessary.
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