Geek app from Google Play with more than 10M installs requests root access. Not cool! This app is powered and developed by Wish Inc. with more than 100M installs.pic.twitter.com/kaQFeV938q
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On the other hand, Fabric SDK is doing lighter SU checks io/fabric/sdk/android/services/common/CommonUtils;->isRooted
Paypal Android SDK is making some superuser stuff in http://com.paypal.android .sdk.onetouch.core.metadata too
Not everything is available on the github Braintree SDK page. Why the package com/paypal/android/sdk/onetouch/core/metadata is missing?pic.twitter.com/Y8cclGyeQQ
There is definitively something here. This package is on the released jar but not on Github. This package send a lot of metadata including location, device infos, operator infos,...pic.twitter.com/X1DaEySeMp
I look at this and think security services are collecting this info. A lot of info on location, phone type etc for further intrusion by baseband attacks.
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