This is one of the most dangerous software/spyware we’ve seen on the market today. This latest cellphone spyware allows someone to “transform” someone else’s mobile phone into an eavesdropping device. It works primarily by installing the spyware into a targeted mobile phone.
“Spying” can be done by enabling a “monitor” phone that acts as a tracker for the targeted phone. The enabled tracker phone can now “listen” to real time conversations made on the targeted phone without the owner/user knowing it. Not only that, this spyware allows its user to track emails, use its camera and even tells the location of the targeted phone since the spyware has access to Google maps!
And even if the user/owner isn’t using his/her cellphone, the spyware can track it and use it to listen on its surrounding. In other words, if I own this spyware I can use any infected phone as a “one-way” walkie-talkie device which feeds me information wherever it is. This spyware is certainly more dangerous than previous problems people had with analog phones. In this digital age, people can literally invade your privacy and use your personal phone against you.
Watch this latest news video to know more about this mobile spyware.
We’ve searched some videos at youtube and found a similar spyware that was reported more than a year ago. The report said that the spyware can get into your phone once you visited an “unknown site” or Phishing site and if someone input the spyware into your phone. However, this spyware doesn’t have GPS functionalities similar above. We believe the technology behind this spyware was “improved” to enable GPS tracking, which only makes it even more dangerous.
We can’t confirm yet if the line provider can still block the spyware today, just like what these two reporters had mentioned. You’ve heard in the first video that currently, there’s no way someone can prevent the spyware user from tracking the infected phone. Again, avoid visiting website you’re not familiar with and avoid handing your phone to somebody you can’t trust. This is a matter of personal security.
We hope authorities will be alerted about this spyware scare. It wouldn’t take long before some malicious cellphone user discover this spyware and use it for his/her own whims.
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November 22nd, 2009 at 12:38 pm
ha, as of right now, there *IS* a way to protect yourself.
Buy an iPhone, this software would have to pass through Apple's review process before being available. There is NO installation of third party software on a standard apple iphone unless you "jailbreak" or "hack" the phone, which is not easy to hide from the user.
If you have an iphone, your employer or spouse can not activate or install this software. (which probably does not exist for the iphone anyway.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Jailbreak.
April 2nd, 2010 at 2:30 pm
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/03/25/pwn2own-2...
April 2nd, 2010 at 2:31 pm
That's a reply to previous comment there…