Tech news headlines have been filled in recent weeks with ominous warnings about data breaches, sketchy phone apps threatening to steal private information on your phone, hackers on a rampage, and the like, and things will no doubt only heat up from here the deeper we get into 2021. In recent weeks, we also reported about an app called SHAREit, which lets you share files with other users who have the same app on their phone. Despite being named as one of the most downloaded apps in 2019, a report from the security firm Trend Micro found unpatched security bugs in the app that apparently went unfixed for a few months, which the researchers said means that the Android version of the app could be used to hijack phones as well as to steal personal data. Beyond all that, there's also plenty to worry about even from legitimate or legitimate-sounding phone apps, the sort that we use every day and generally without even worrying too much about how they're handling our data. Through a mix of aggressive permissions to working behind the scenes to snoop on your online activity, here's a look at how some of these apps nevertheless spy on you or have the ability to do so, even without being the dodgy kind of app that tends to wind up being excoriated by the press for siphoning off data for hackers or part of a big data breach. Reader's Digest put together a rundown of some of these problematic phone apps to be aware of. They include: An app called CamScanner, which one cybersecurity expert told the publication has been found to have malicious components within it. Indeed, a Kaspersky report noted that malware had been found in the app, which nevertheless racked up tens of millions of downloads ..
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