Sept. 14, 2023, 11:05 a.m. | Bruce Schneier

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Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store.


An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been downloaded from Play roughly 100 times before Google took it down last April after being tipped off by security firm ESET. It was also available in the Samsung app store and on signalplus[.]org, a dedicated website mimicking the official Signal.org. An app calling itself FlyGram, meanwhile, was created by the same …

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