SpyLoan Malicious App Downloaded 12M+ Times in Google Play
The fake financial app tricks users into signing up for high-interest payments, only to steal their information and blackmail them.
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The fake financial app tricks users into signing up for high-interest payments, only to steal their information and blackmail them.
Researchers at Lasso found 1,500+ tokens in total that gave them varying levels of access to LLM repositories at Google, Microsoft, VMware, and some 720 other organizations.