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Your phone may not be spying on you now - but it soon will be

2013-04-24 10:12 by

 

As many people have been targeted recently by mysterious smartphone-spying software, it turns out that smartphone- spying and cyber espionage have become something usual. Kaspersky Lab's senior malware analyst Denis Maslennikov suggests that, there will be more and more of them.

He claims that state-sponsored hackers, in a separate and earlier espionage campaign, infected droid-powered gadgets used by governments in Eastern Europe and beyond - in a spying operation codenamed Red October. Circumstantial evidence to back this claim is laid out in greater detail in this blog post by Kaspersky.

According to Maslennikov, state-backed cyber-spies will "try to attack everything". And it's been widely suspected that smartphones passing through Chinese customs sometimes come out the other side with unwelcome extras.

"High-level attackers will target everything possible," he added. "We must protect all kinds of devices. Please don't think your smartphone or tablet is safer than your PC."

Read more -here-

 

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