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Spynet is a bit smarter than most spyware apps, as it does not leave any traces of itself, which makes it difficult to spot. In fact, the app does not even appear on the home screen or the recent apps tab.

A short-lived spyware operation called Oospy, which emerged earlier this year after its predecessor Spyhide was hacked, is no longer operational and has shut down. Oospy appeared online in late July as a rebrand of a phone monitoring app called Spyhide, which was facilitating the surveillance of tens of thousands of Android device owners around the world. Spyhide shut down after a breach exposed the operation and its administrators who were profiting from it.

The Android platform is now riddled with scam apps that can hijack user’s personal data. Cybersecurity experts ESET says there has been an 88 per cent increase in the number of SpyLoan loan apps that can steal sensitive information from infected Android devices This has led to a 19 per cent overall growth in the

A phone surveillance app called Spyhide is stealthily collecting private phone data from tens of thousands of Android devices around the world, new data shows. Once planted, Spyhide silently and continually uploads the phone's contacts, messages, photos, call logs and recordings, and granular location in real-time. Despite their stealth and broad access to a victim's phone data, stalkerware apps are notoriously buggy and are known to spill, leak, or otherwise put victims' stolen...

We'll delve into the details of the LetMeSpy breach, the potential risks it poses, and offer guidance on how to protect yourself.

A hacker has stolen the messages, call logs and locations intercepted by a widely used phone monitoring app called LetMeSpy, according to the company that makes the spyware. The phone monitoring app, which is used to spy on thousands of people using Android phones around the world, said in a notice on its login page that on June 21, "a security incident occurred involving obtaining unauthorized access to the data of website users​​." LetMeSpy is a type of phone monitori...

Google TAG researchers reveal two campaigns against iOS, Android, and Chrome users that demonstrate how the commercial surveillance market is thriving despite government-imposed limits.

Google says attackers with with ISPs to deploy Hermit spyware on Android, iOS device

A Milan-based company called RCS Lab developed tools to spy on private messages and contacts of the targeted devices.

Cyber-security researchers have unearthed a new enterprise-grade Android spyware called Hermit