Spyware Installed on China Visitors Phones
Summary
The app gathers private information from the phone including contacts, SMS messages, call logs, calendars and more according the research done by Cure53. Researchers found this app likely passes data in an unencrypted ZIP file over HTTP not HTTPS, leaving it open to man-in-the-middle attacks. In any case, having an app that indiscriminately saves data and sends it over unsecured connections makes me quite uneasy about having it installed. As with MFSocket, we recommend leaving your personal cellphone at home when traveling through this part of China. This article from China Digital Times contains more details on China’s trend of forcibly install spyware on users’ cellphones.
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