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Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones (www.the-independent.com)
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[โ€“] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Android also shows an indicator when any app is accessing the microphone or camera now.

[โ€“] 0x0@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-21083

There are probably other exploits around that as well