Google says attackers labored with ISPs to deploy Hermit spy ware on Android and iOS


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A complicated spy ware marketing campaign is getting the assistance of web service suppliers (ISPs) to trick customers into downloading malicious apps, based on analysis printed by Google’s Menace Evaluation Group (TAG) (through TechCrunch). This corroborates earlier findings from safety analysis group Lookout, which has linked the spy ware, dubbed Hermit, to Italian spy ware vendor RCS Labs.

Lookout says RCS Labs is in the identical line of labor as NSO Group — the notorious surveillance-for-hire firm behind the Pegasus spy ware — and peddles industrial spy ware to numerous authorities companies. Researchers at Lookout consider Hermit has already been deployed by the federal government of Kazakhstan and Italian authorities. Consistent with these findings, Google has…

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