Discover famous Android keyboard apps to collect user data

GO Keyboard is a prominent and extremely popular keyboard application on Android operating system, available on the Google Play Store store has been discovered to collect user data, download and run code from the server of third-party.

It was the engineers of AdGuard - the ad blocking technology provider who discovered this. AdGuard said, the company has discovered suspicious requests while analyzing the web traffic of the application after installation.

While investigating the GO Keyboard application for similar intrusive ads, AdGuard discovered the application to collect a large amount of data from the device immediately after installation and sent it to a remote server.

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Andrey Meshkov - AdGuard member said: GO Keyboard application automatically sends to its server email account, IMSI, location, network type, screen size, Android version, . of users without permission.

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Besides, this app also links with dozens of third-party tracking and ad networks to run ads.

Researchers have informed Google of the application's activity but have not yet seen a response.

There are currently two versions of Go Keyboard (1 and 2) that perform user information collection. Both versions have a number of installations ranging from 100 million to 500 million, meaning that the number of affected users ranges from 200 million to 1 billion.

So far, GOMO Apps - a Chinese application development company behind GO Keyboard does not give any answers to this issue.