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TooCreative on Jan 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Malware on My Android Phone

    he received a push notification
    to chrome from the malicious app

What does that mean? How does an app send a "push notification" to Chrome?

derivagral on Jan 11, 2021 [–]

Not GP, but my interpretation: app sent a general push notification which, when tapped, opened a malicious URL in Chrome as the next step of this "funnel".

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