Bold Spy is something that we need to be aware of.
Well, we don’t need to worry about Israel in this case but This abuses the accessibility service to do lots of things like recording calls, taking photos, recording calls from various applications and more.
Apps that could be affected by this include but not limited to:
- • Blackberry BBM
- • Turkcell
- BOTIM
- Kakao
- LINE
- mail.ru VoIP calls
- Telegram VoIP
- Microsoft Office 365 VoIP functionality
- Skype
- Slack VoIP
- Tango
- TextNow
- Viber
- Vonage
I have WhatsApp, Text Now and Skype on my pohone.
Here are the surveilence capabilities the research list. It includes but may not be limited to:
- • Getting all account usernames available on the device and their associated types (such as Google, Telegram, WhatsApp and others)
- List of installed apps
- • Browser history and bookmarks
- • Live call recordings
- Call logs
- Take photos from the device cameras
- Contact lists
- • Device information (IP address, SIM card information, Wi-Fi information, Android version, and device identifiers)
- List of all files and folders on the device
- Clipboard content
- Keylogs
- Location from GPS, network, or cell provider
- • SMS messages (sent, received and drafts)
- Record audio from the microphone
- Take screenshots
The article is titled Lookout Discovers Android Spyware Tied to Iranian Police Targeting Minorities: BouldSpy and I hope that people will take a look at this.
This is going to be huge! This is probably be bigger than Yellow Camera
I wouldn’t be surprised if this got marked as a topic, and we’ll see about whether people think it should be. You tell me!
This supposedly happens, says the article, after seizure of the phone by Irainian police.
The boost that prompted this article:
Devin Prater: Boosting Martijn Grooten (martijn_grooten): Very little is known about malware installed on mobile phones after they were seized by the police, so this Lookout report, on Android spyware likely installed following device seizure and targeting various minority groups in Iran, is very valuable https://security.lookout.com/blog/iranian-spyware-bouldspy
The link to the article is above.
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