Results for 'Stalkerware'
TheTruthSpy stalkerware, still insecure, still leaking data
February 13, 2024 - Stalkerware app TheTruthSpy has been hacked for the fourth time, once again leaking the sensitive data it captures.
Stalkerware activity drops as glaring spying problem is revealed
October 11, 2023 - North America has a spying problem. Its perpetrators are everyday people. According to recent research from Malwarebytes, 62 percent of people in...
60,000 Androids have stalkerware-type app Spyhide installed
July 26, 2023 - Stalkerware-type app Spyhide is coded so badly that it’s possible to gain access to the back-end databases and retrieve data about everyone...
Stalkerware-type app developers fined by NY Attorney General
February 8, 2023 - Stalkerware is a huge problem when it comes to intrusion into people’s personal lives. “Friends”, strangers, family members, abusive spouses and many...
Stalkerware-type detections hit record high in 2021, but fell in second half
April 14, 2022 - After having tracked stalkerware for years, Malwarebytes can reveal that in 2021, detections for apps that can non-consensually monitor another person’s...
Phone screenshots accidentally leaked online by stalkerware-type company
September 28, 2021 - pcTattleTale hasn’t been very careful about securing the screenshots it sneakily takes from its victims’ phones. pcTattleTale markets itself as “employee...
FTC bans SpyFone and its CEO from continuing to sell stalkerware
September 1, 2021 - Nearly two years after the US Federal Trade Commission first took aim against mobile apps that can non-consensually track people’s locations...
TinyCheck: Stalkerware detection that doesn’t leave a trace
March 9, 2021 - In 2019, when Malwarebytes helped found the Coalition Against Stalkerware, which brings together cybersecurity vendors and nonprofits to detect and raise...
Good news: Stalkerware survey results show majority of people aren’t creepy
August 26, 2020 - Back in July, we sent out a survey to Malwarebytes Labs readers on the subject of stalkerware—the term used to describe apps...
Stalkerware advertising ban by Google a welcome, if incomplete, step
July 14, 2020 - On Friday, July 10, Google announced it would no longer allow advertising for spyware and similar surveillance technology—often referred to as...
