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Today's tech news roundup centers around the Super Bowl:
- Twitter tops in Super Bowl commercial mentions
- How Oreo's blackout tweet won the Super Bowl
- BlackBerry's marketing chief explains the Z10 Super Bowl commercial
- Helmet sensor warns of concussion risk via phone app
- Android malware uses your PC's own mic to record you
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A couple of Android apps masquerading as cleanup tools actually had a sneakier mission in mind.
Uncovered last month by Kaspersky, two apps named Superclean and DroidCleaner posed as software that claimed to clean up your Android smartphone or tablet. Instead, these two were actually pieces of malware designed to snoop on your conversations by infecting your computer.
The programs worked by downloading files that automatically execute after plugging an Android device into a Windows PC, according to Kaspersky's blog. After executing, the malware would trigger the audio recorder function in Windows, write the information to a file, and … Read more
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