Consumer-grade phone surveillance apps aren’t only intended to stay stealthy; some of these apps are also making it increasingly difficult to remove them ...

Paul Haskell-Dowland and Roberto Musotto from Edith Cowan University explain the workings of Pegasus spyware and how to find out if your phone is infected. A major journalistic investigation has found ...

Mobile security firm iVerify discovered five new Pegasus spyware variants on iPhones and Android phones. A scan of 2,500 devices revealed seven infections dating back to 2021, suggesting the spyware ...

Apple’s Find My network can turn almost any device, even Android phones, into fake AirTags. This loophole lets bad actors secretly track people by bypassing Apple’s built-in security measures. The ...

A group of hackers with links to the North Korean regime uploaded Android spyware onto the Google Play app store and were able to trick some people into downloading it, according to cybersecurity firm ...

Summary: A report from the NCSC has revealed that there are dozens of legitimate-looking Android and iOS apps that are actually masquerading as spyware. Hackers typically use this spyware to spy on ...

A programmer said the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) installed spyware on his Android phone after he was detained in Moscow earlier this year. Security researchers confirmed that his phone had ...

The Serbian government exploited Qualcomm zero-days to unlock and infect Android devices with a new spyware named 'NoviSpy,' used to spy on activists, journalists, and protestors. One of the Qualcomm ...

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While Meta didn't mention the newer Android OS-level flaw in its August WhatsApp security update, it seems that ...

China's public security bureaus have allegedly installed the spyware on confiscated phones, according to research from cybersecurity vendor Lookout. Think twice about handing over your phone to ...

Facepalm: Theoretically, antimalware software should work to protect users' data from cybercrime. However, a newly discovered spyware campaign targeting Android devices is doing the opposite while ...