Let’s check in with the Spyware industry, one more shut down

During this week’s podcast, we saw news about yet another Spyware company that has been shut down. What was interesting about the article we’re linking to today is that they talked about the fact that Let Me Spy was recently shut down.

blog post: Another Spyware maker shut down, data deleted from servers, servers wiped

We talked about spyware on many different podcasts including podcast 153, podcast 135, podcast 54, and podcast 26.

This time, the spyware that was shut down was called pcTattletale which may have been talked about in other platforms but doesn’t seem to be found here.

The operator deleted data and they lost access to their amazon services recently. The website for the company had his website defaced

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and the app was supposedly a remote app that could report things back to the person who installed it with out permission.

It was used to openly spy on others without permission, making it stalkerware. This makes software like this illegal.

At the time of writing, the web site for this company is offline.

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I went looking to see if anyone else had this and I don’t find anything else.


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