Technical Analysis & Behavior
Package Analysis for 'com.vlingo.midas' (Oem / Recommended Debloat Target): Speech recognition app for the Vlingo personal assistant Vlingo : FYI : In January 2012 AndroidPit discovered that Vlingo sent packets of information containing the users GPS co-ordinates, IMEI (unique device identifier), contact list and the title of every song stored on the device back to Nuance without. Source : Android users frequently spot 'com.vlingo.midas' running persistently in Battery Usage, Network Data Monitor, or Developer Running Services. Note: Malicious trojans and stalkerware APKs also frequently spoof legitimate Oem system package names like 'com.vlingo.midas' to evade manual detection.