All apps have been developed by a Chinese company.
Recently, researchers at VPNpro have discovered that a famous app named VivaVideo available on both Android and iOS with over 100 million installations is operating as spyware.
Developed by a Chinese company named QuVideo Inc; there are 4 other apps developed by the same company and engaged in such malicious actions, according to researchers. The other ones happen to be the following:
SlidePlus – A photo slideshow maker with over 1 million installations
VivaCut – A video editor
Tempo – A music video maker
VidStatus – Advertised as a Whatsapp video status tool; the app has over 50 million installations on Google Play.
It is worth noting that the VidStatus app is also flagged by Microsoft as having the AndroRat trojan on VirusTotal.
Out of these, 2 apps, namely VivaCut and Tempo are published on the Google Play Store under a different developer name in order to hide their connections to QuVideo, researchers claim. However, such is not the case on the App Store where all the apps are available under one developer account.
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