- Three Spauseware -Apps have disappeared, journalists have found
- All three leaked sensitive data
- It is not uncommon that apps for spureware disappear and redirect after a security accident
Three Speivware -Apps – Cocospy, Spyic and Spyzie, have become dark. Apps, which all are basically clones of each other no longer work. Their sites are gone and their sky storage hosted on Amazon is deleted.
The news was broken off Techcrunch Earlier this week, saying that the reason behind the disappearance is not obviously obvious, but it could be linked to data violations that happened earlier this year.
“Telephone monitoring operations for consumer quality are known to shut down (or rebrand completely) after a hack or data violation, typically in an attempt to escape the legal and reputation fall,” the publication wrote.
The gray zone
“Lightmespy, a spyware developed out of Poland, confirmed its” Permanent shutdown “in August 2023, after a data violation wiped out developer servers. US-based spyware-maker PCTATTLETELE went out of operation and shut down in May 2024 after a hack and website defeat.”
Spueware or spyware is a type of application that works in the gray zone. It is advertised as a legitimate software used to keep track of minors, people with special needs and the like. However, it is mostly just a cover for illegal activities, such as spying on other members of the household, love interests and the like.
Given its nature, the development team and key people are usually hidden, making it difficult for the media to get a comment or statement.
At the end of February this year, two of the apps – Cocospy and Spyic – were found postponing sensitive user data: E -mail addresses, text messages, call logs, photographs and other sensitive information. In addition, researchers were able to exfilter 1.81 million E -mail addresses used to register with Cocospy, and approx. 880,000 addresses used for Spyic. In addition to E email addresses, the researcher managed to access most of the data harvested by apps, including images, messages and call logs.
Just a week later, similar news broke for Spyzie. The app was found leaking E email addresses, text messages, call logs, photographs and other sensitive data that belonged to millions of people who have had these apps installed on their devices without their knowledge or consent. The people who installed these apps, in most cases partners, parents, significant others, have also had their E -mail addresses postponed in the same way.
Via Techcrunch
