Spyzie, a little-known phone surveillance operation, is responsible for compromising over half a million Android devices and thousands of iPhones and iPads. A security researcher revealed the vulnerabilities exploited in Spyzie and similar stalkerware apps like Cocospy and Spyic, allowing unauthorized access to sensitive data like messages and location information. The leak also uncovered more than 518,000 email addresses of customers, indicating a significant breach of privacy. Although aimed at lawful monitoring, these apps pose risks not only to targeted users but also to customers themselves due to pervasive security flaws.
A little-known phone surveillance operation called Spyzie has compromised more than half a million Android devices and thousands of iPhones and iPads, according to data shared by a security researcher. Most of the affected device owners, who are unknown, are likely unaware that their phone data has been compromised.
The bug also exposes the email addresses of each customer who signed up to Spyzie to compromise someone else's device, the researcher said. The researcher exploited the bug to collect 518,643 unique email addresses of Spyzie customers, and provided the cache of email addresses to TechCrunch.
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