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Why are Chinese apps like TikTok a threat? Well, check here how Chinese state backed hackers use software updates of the immense popular Chinese app QQ to deliver malware to some app-users, and hack them https://www.welivesecurity.com/2023/04/26/evasive-panda-apt-group-malware-updates-popular-chinese-software/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/bgroothuis/status/1652414884695494656
This is either done in cooperation with the Chinese mother company Tencent (deliberately delivering malicious software updates to a selected number of users), or by hacking into telecom operators infrastructure and serving targets the malicious software update on their devices
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/bgroothuis/status/1652415851994251266