A Siberia-based app company, Pushwoosh, may have mislead big clients about being US-based.
, a deep dive into Pushwoosh’s online paper trail turned up a host of suspicious activity. The company listed multiple physical addresses across the nation, one of which was simply a Maryland home owned by Konev’s friend and one California address that doesn’t exist according to city officials. There were also omissions of Russian relations in at least five annual financial filings and at least two associated LinkedIn profiles that do not belong to real people.
Although the investigation does not indicate Pushwoosh has actively engaged in malicious surveillance, its misleading stateside addresses and potential susceptibility to leaks or hacking could be in violation of US Federal Trade Commission laws, or be cause enough to trigger sanctions. Both the US Army and the CDC stated they have removed Pushwoosh software from their apps, although that likely affects only a fraction of the company’s 2.3 billion devices it claims are in its databases.
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