Did my phone get hacked?

[abadr]

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Did my Nokia 7 Plus get hacked? I found this mysterious app in my task switcher and it never came up during my use so I have no idea which app brought it up. Also I don’t have any application in any language other than English.

I installed Sophos security, scanned the mobile and found nothing. I’m very careful with what I install on my phone and only have a handful of essential apps installed (evernote, kmail, firefox, etc). The only thing that changed in the last couple of days is that I installed the opensource podcast app AntennaPOD from F-Droid and loaded a bunch of podcasts.

Any ideas on what than mysterious app would be?

Thanks a lot.

[relan]

1. Don’t panic.
2. Switch your phone into airplain mode. If you really have a malware, this will stop it from leaking your data and getting commands from a server.
3. Go to Settings, Applications and look through all installed apps. Remove those that don’t look familiar.
4. Check which apps have the permission to install other apps (Special access screen).

[abadr]

Thanks for the reply,

The apps that have permission to install other apps are F-Droid and Firefox.

[NicoAlt]

Did you only install F-Droid with Firefox? Do you have any other repo in F-Droid?

I remember that some years ago mobile providers were able to install an app on my device to configure the SIM etc. At least I think it got installed by the provider. But maybe it also was pre-installed and activated on first mobile connect.

Do you know the language shown on the screenshot? Would be good to find out what it means.

[abadr]

I installed F-Droid and used it to install Amaze a long time ago and AntennaPOD just a couple of days ago. I don’t think it’s my mobile provider since It’s not our language and I’m afraid I don’t know the language or what it says.

[hotlittlewhitedog]

I think you can manage the permissions of Firefox in its preferences and deny to run external files.