Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Mar 14, 2025
#Amazon is still hosting #stalkerware victims' data weeks after breach alert
#Cocospy, #Spyic, and #Spyzie, have collectively compromised over 3.1 million Android phones, which we know because apps each had a #databreach in Feb.
As part of our investigation into stalkerware operations, which included analyzing the apps themselves, TechCrunch found that some of the contents of a device compromised by the stalkerware apps are being uploaded to storage servers run by #AWS.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/amazon-is-still-hosting-stalkerware-victims-data-weeks-after-breach-alert/
Amazon is still hosting spyware victims' data weeks after breach alert | TechCrunch

Amazon won't say if it will stop hosting data from three phone surveillance operations that spilled private data on millions of people.

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Prof. Dr. Dennis-Kenji KipkerMar 1, 2025
Nicht nur rechtswidrig, sondern extrem fahrlässig: Jüngst wurde bekannt, dass die beiden Spy Apps "#Cocospy" und "#Spyic" massive #Sicherheitslücken aufweisen, die den Missbrauch sensibler Daten ermöglichen - DsiN hat einen Artikel veröffentlicht, wie man #Spyware auf seinem Smartphone erkennen kann:
"The researcher collected 1.81 million email addresses of Cocospy customers and 880,167 email addresses of Spyic customers" #cybersecurity
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/stalkerware-apps-cocospy-spyic-exposing-phone-data-of-millions-of-people/
Exclusive: Stalkerware apps Cocospy and Spyic are exposing phone data of millions of people

A bug in the Android and iPhone monitoring operations allows anyone to access private data exfiltrated from a victim's device.

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অর্ঘ্য 🏏📚 💻Feb 28, 2025

Another #stalkerware app, called Spyzie, exposed the data of > 500,000 victims.

Spyzie had a bug, the same one that affected stalkerware apps #Cocospy & #Spyic, that allowed anyone to access messages, photos, location data, in the infected device.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/27/spyzie-stalkerware-spying-on-thousands-of-android-and-iphone-users/

Spyzie stalkerware is spying on thousands of Android and iPhone users | TechCrunch

Another little-known phone monitoring outfit has quietly amassed half a million customers, whose email addresses are now in Have I Been Pwned.

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Show threadearthlingFeb 26, 2025

@sambowne

"With Cocospy and Spyic, you can usually enter ✱✱001✱✱ on your Android phone app’s keypad and then press the “call” button to make the stalkerware apps appear on-screen — if they are installed. This is a feature built into Cocospy and Spyic to allow the person who planted the app on the victim’s device to regain access. In this case, the feature can also be used by the victim to determine if the app is installed."

#stalkerware
#android
#Cocospy
#Spyic

Anonymous 🐈️🐾☕🍵🏴🇵🇸 Feb 25, 2025
A security vulnerability in a pair of phone-monitoring apps is exposing the personal data of millions of people who have the apps unwittingly installed on their devices, according to a security researcher who found the flaw.
#Stalkerware #Cocospy
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/stalkerware-apps-cocospy-spyic-exposing-phone-data-of-millions-of-people/
Exclusive: Stalkerware apps Cocospy and Spyic are exposing phone data of millions of people

A bug in the Android and iPhone monitoring operations allows anyone to access private data exfiltrated from a victim's device.

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BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻Feb 24, 2025

Security researcher details 2 bugs in “popular” spyware/stalkerware apps Cocospy and Spyic. 1) Exposes the personal data of millions of people who have the apps unwittingly installed on their devices. Data includes messages, photos, and call logs. 2) Exposes the email addresses of the people who signed up with the intention of planting the app on someone’s device to covertly monitor them.

Researchers collected > 2M million email addresses of the spyware’s customers. These mobile stalkerware apps share the same source code and are apparently linked to Chinese software developers.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/stalkerware-apps-cocospy-spyic-exposing-phone-data-of-millions-of-people/ #security #spyware #cybersecurity #systemservice #mobilephone #china #stalkerware #Cocospy #Spyic #privacy

Exclusive: Stalkerware apps Cocospy and Spyic are exposing phone data of millions of people

A bug in the Android and iPhone monitoring operations allows anyone to access private data exfiltrated from a victim's device.

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Dark CypherFeb 21, 2025

The latest #breach of #Cocospy and #Spyic highlights again just how prevalent #stalkerware / commodity #spyware really is. Reporting by @zackwhittaker for @TechCrunch says the researchers collected “1.81 million email addresses of Cocospy customers and 880,167 email addresses of Spyic customers”… that’s over 2M people who have ostensibly bought these products to #spy on people.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/stalkerware-apps-cocospy-spyic-exposing-phone-data-of-millions-of-people/

Exclusive: Stalkerware apps Cocospy and Spyic are exposing phone data of millions of people

A bug in the Android and iPhone monitoring operations allows anyone to access private data exfiltrated from a victim's device.

TechCrunch