Malicious Apps Secretly Turn Android Phones into Cybercriminal Proxy Tools

Several malicious Android apps that turn mobile devices running the operating system into residential proxies (RESIPs) for other threat actors have been observed on the Google Play Store.The findings come from HUMAN's Satori Threat Intelligence team, which said the cluster of VPN apps came fitted with a Golang library that transformed the user's device into a proxy node without their knowledge.



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yeah thats how people monetise botnets, residential proxies, mobile proxies etc lol