1-in-2 phones sold in Africa exfiltrate telemetry to China - NowSecure

Research from NowSecure reveals that Transsion smartphones and various popular mobile applications utilize the Athena SDK to exfiltrate sensitive user telemetry to Chinese servers. This hidden data collection includes precise GPS location, device identifiers, and granular app usage activity, which can only be mitigated by blocking all traffic to shalltry.com at the DNS level.