Personal data of smartphone users at risk via huge Stalkerware leak
By MYBRANDBOOK
A smartphone spyware has put personal data of hundreds of thousands of users at risk, like call records/recordings, text messages, photos, browsing history and precise geolocations.
Stalkerware apps are generally disguised under a fake app name with suspicious access to messages, call logs, location and other personal activity. The spyware security issue was discovered as part of a wider investigation into consumer-grade spyware.
Sources said that the efforts were on to contact the spyware developer because the security and privacy of thousands of people is at risk until the issue is fixed. Several stalkerware apps used a variety of techniques to successfully evade Google's ban on such apps.
Last year, Google updated its Play Store policies to impose a ban on stalkerware apps and recently removed several "stalkerware" ads from its Play Store, promoting apps that violated its policies.
A recent report by Kaspersky claimed that nearly 4,627 mobile users in India were found to be the victim of stalkerware, as some people try to digitally control the lives of their intimate partners.
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