Earlier this month security researchers at ESET identified 12 Android espionage apps (spy apps) that share the same malicious code. All the reported apps claim to be messaging tools apart from one that poses as a news app. In the background, these apps secretly execute remote access trojan (RAT) code called VajraSpy, used for targeted … Read more
A US senator has alleged that governments have been ‘forcing’ Apple and Google to give details of push notifications that come to iPhones and Android phones. Senator Ron Wyden has written an open letter to the US Department of Justice in which he urged that two major companies should be allowed to be transparent about … Read more
WASHINGTON: Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps’ push notifications, a US senator warned on Wednesday.In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet’s Google and Apple. Although details were sparse, the letter lays out yet another path by which governments can … Read more