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Add a Comment. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Clear search input Search. By Bill Toulas. June 5, Cumulatively, the apps have been downloaded by more than million users. The adware pushes out-of-app ads, interrupts even phone calls, and auto-plays video and audio ads. Everyone is waiting for Money Heist season 5 volume 2 to appear or "season 6," "season 5 part 2," or just "the Read more. These ads appeared on users' lock screens and triggered audio and video at seemingly random times or even when a phone was asleep.

We are unable to find any other information on this. It is extremely annoying and almost [makes] her phone unusable. Lookout's post said the developers responsible for the apps went to great lengths to conceal the plugin. Early versions of the apps incorporated it as an unencrypted dex file named beita. The renaming had the effect of making it harder for users to know the file was responsible for executing code.

Later, app developers renamed the plugin to the more opaque icon-icomoon-gemini. The developers then obfuscated the decryption key within the code through a series of functions buried in a package named com. In later versions still, developers used a third-party library called StringFog, which used XOR - and base64 -based encoding to hide every instance of the string "BeiTa" in the files.

However, we cannot attribute BeiTa to CooTek with complete certainty. Ars has asked representatives from both CooTek and Google to comment.

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