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Google Deletes App on Pixel Phones–'Dangerous' New Spyware Warning


Google confirms it will now remove this spyware threat from your phone.

ForbesStranger Things Season 5 Leak—Hacker Claims New Episodes Release Anytime NowBy Palantir has added its weighty voice to iVerify’s, with CISO Dane Stuckey saying “we're supporting some of the most important institutions in the Western world. Such was the concern about the lack of transparency and inability to delete this app, that iVerify Co-founder and COO Rocky Cole warned it “has serious implications for corporate environments, with millions of Android phones entering the workplace every day. In terms of the origins of the app, Google told me “this is not an Android platform nor Pixel vulnerability, this is an apk developed by Smith Micro for Verizon in-store demo devices and is no longer being used.

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