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Don’t Use This Dangerous TikTok Pro App As September 16 Ban Looms

Posted on September 12, 2020September 12, 2020 By Davey Winder

Threat actors have been working hard to exploit the fear, uncertainty, and doubt created by Trump’s decision to ban TikTok

Sean Wright, SME application security lead at ImmersiveLabs, told me in conversation that “this looks to be a rather nasty piece of malware which ironically would severely impact a user’s privacy, the very thing which TikTok is supposedly being banned for.”

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