Source: Twitter / swiftonsecurity
Article note: Oh huh. My cynicism was half right; TikTok is an intelligence op, but by the UAE rather than the Chinese.
ToTok, a messaging app that as of last week was one of the most popular in the Apple and Google stores, is billed as a secure way to chat by video/text message with friends/family But it turns out that it's actually a spying tool for Emirati intelligence https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/politics/totok-app-uae.html …
“ToTok” rather than “TikTok” in this case, so you’re probably still right about TikTok being a Chinese spying tool.
I realized that after I read a little further. It’s getting hard to tell generic statrtup names apart.