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Biden Admin. Adds ‘Mercenary Spyware’ Firms to Ban List

Richi Jennings — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:15:57 +0000

European cousins Intellexa and Cytrox essentially banned by Commerce Dept. — Predator/ALIEN not welcome in U.S.

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Ironic: LetMeSpy Spyware Hackers Were Hacked (by Hackers)

Richi Jennings — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:36:19 +0000

Content warning: Abuse, stalking, controlling behavior, Schadenfreude, irony, doxxing.

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‘Predator’ — Nasty Android Spyware Revealed

Richi Jennings — Tue, 30 May 2023 16:51:15 +0000

Intellexa mercenary spyware chains five unpatched bugs—plus ‘Alien’ technology

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Google Finally Pulls Chinese Apps Stealing Personal Data

Richi Jennings — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:16:36 +0000

After six million downloads, two spyware Baidu apps have been removed from the Play Store. What took Google so long?

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Mandrake – owning Android devices since 2016

Bogdan Botezatu — Thu, 14 May 2020 08:45:54 +0000

In early 2020 we identified a new, highly sophisticated Android espionage platform that had been active in the wild for at least 4 years. We named the threat Mandrake as the actor(s) behind it used names of toxic plants, or other botanical references, for major development branches: e.g. Briar, Ricinus or Nerium. An investigation by […]

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Millions of Android phones may be vulnerable to camera spying vulnerability

Graham Cluley — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:31:03 +0000

Security researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in Android smartphones that could allow an attacker to secretly take photos and record videos without any permissions being granted. And the exploit works even if the phone is locked or the screen turned off, or even during an actual call – all without the knowledge of the user, […]

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Dozens of Apps Still Dodging Google’s Vetting System

Liviu Arsene — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:19:20 +0000

Bitdefender researchers recently analyzed 25 apps that made it into Google Play, at least for a time, packing aggressive adware SDKs that bombarded users with ads and avoided removal by hiding their presence. Cumulatively, the apps were apparently downloaded almost 700,000 times by Google Play users. While Google has gone to great lengths to ban […]

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Stalkerware? Spouseware? Creepware? Just Call It Horrific

Richi Jennings — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:56:42 +0000

The Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) is stepping up its fight against Stalkerware. It’s asking for help from AV vendors, phone platform makers, and law enforcement. It’s time to put an end to it.

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Italian Android Spyware Infected Google Play Store for Years, Researchers Find

Luana Pascu — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:27:48 +0000

Fake service applications in Italian from mobile operators were found to be invasive spyware after successfully bypassing Google Play Store’s filters, according to a group of researchers from non-profit security organization Security Without Borders (SWB). The large campaign of disguised spyware infected the store and stayed there for months in a “case of lawful intercept […]

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Triout Android Spyware Framework Makes a Comeback, Abusing App with 50 Million Downloads

Liviu Arsene — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 09:50:59 +0000

In August 2018, Bitdefender researchers stumbled across an Android malware framework, dubbed Triout, which packed massive surveillance capabilities. Bundled with a legitimate application ripped from the official Google Play marketplace, the spyware framework can hide its existence on the device, record phone calls, log incoming text messages, record videos, take pictures, and even collect GPS […]

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