- It was discovered that Spyzie was vulnerable to the same fault as Cocospy and Spyzie
- More than half a million Android users were exposed
- Approximately 4,900 iOS users were also exposed
Hundreds of android users, as well as several thousand iPhone users, have had their confidential data committed by a spouse application, called Spyzie.
The applications were found email addresses with escape, text messages, calls of calls, photographs and other confidential data, belonging to millions of people who, without their knowledge or consent, have installed these applications on their devices. People who installed these applications, in most cases, parents, parents, other important people, have also exposed their email addresses in the same way.
The researcher who discovered that all these defects do not yet share the details, claiming that they are quite simple to explode and have not yet been addressed.
Email addresses and more
Spyware applications, often also called “spouse software”, are applications that people install covered in mobile devices that belong to their partners, children or the like. They are announced as legitimate monitoring applications, but essentially operate in the gray area and are not allowed in the main application stores, such as the App Store or Play Store.
This is the third application of this type with the same defect, after a cybersecurity researcher recently analyzed Cocospy and Spyic, two other popular spyware applications whose code apparently has significant overlays, which allows the researcher to extract confidential information from their servers.
The researcher achieved 1.81 million email addresses used to register in Cocospy, and approximately 880,000 addresses used for Spyic. In addition to the email addresses, the researcher managed to access the majority of the data harvested by the applications, including images, messages and call records.
For Spyzie, the researcher managed to collect more than 510,000 unique email addresses of Android users and confidential data on at least 4,900 iphone and iPad users.
The operators did not respond to media consultations and, at the time of publication, have not addressed vulnerabilities.
Through Techcrunch
