A recent scoop byReuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh, which claims to be based in the United States. But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring thePincer Trojan, malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages fromAndroidmobile devices.