Spyzie stalkerware is spying on thousands of Android and iPhone users

A little-known phone surveillance operation called Spyzie has compromised more than half a million Android devices and thousands of iPhones and iPads, according to data shared by a security researcher. Most of the affected device owners, who are unknown, are likely unaware that their phone data has been compromised. The security researcher told TechCrunch that Spyzie is vulnerable to the same bug as Cocospy and Spyic, two near-identical but differently branded stalkerware apps that share the same source code and exposed the data of more than 2 million people, as we reported last week. The bug allows anyone to access the phone data, including messages, photos, and location data, exfiltrated from any device compromised by the three apps. The bug also exposes the email addresses of each customer who signed up to Spyzie to compromise someone else’s device, the researcher said. The researcher exploited the bug to collect 518,643 unique email addresses of Spyzie customers and provided th ... Read full article.