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How Smartphones Are Becoming Hacking Targets In An Alarming Rate by otiz55: 4:33pm On Dec 24, 2016
In the wake of last month’s “Gooligan” attacks, which targeted more than a million Android devices and gained access to the users’ Google accounts, experts are suggesting that a flood of simlar smartphone hacking incidents may be on the way in 2017.

The Chinese hackers behind Gooligan were making as much as $500,000 a month by exploiting their access to the phones, according to Michael Shaulov, director of mobile security for Checkpoint, the California-based cyber-security firm that tipped off Google to the Android security problem.

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