{"id":171,"date":"2020-08-29T00:03:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2020-09-25T17:39:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T14:39:32","slug":"fake-android-alerts-first-google-then-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/security\/fake-android-alerts-first-google-then-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Android Alerts – first Google, then Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you\u2019re a Google Android user, you may have been bothered by pop-up notifications over the past week that you didn\u2019t expect and certainly didn\u2019t want.<\/p>\n

The first mainstream victim seems to be Google\u2019s own Hangouts app.<\/p>\n

Users around the world, and therefore at all times of the day (many users complained unnecessarily about waking up), received spam-like messages such as:<\/p>\n

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The messages did not contain the suggested links or required any action from the recipient, so there was no obvious cybercrime intent.<\/p>\n

The messages really seemed to be some kind of test – but who and for what purpose?<\/p>\n

Four exclamation marks suggested someone hacking persuasion – perhaps some sort of overcooked \u201cconcept proof\u201d (PoC) designed to make a point sent by someone who had no social grace or legal sensitivity in knowing when to quit.<\/p>\n