These three stalkerware apps have just become dark, and a data breach can be fault
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Three husband -apps – Cocospy, Spyic and Spyzie have become dark. The apps, all of which are in principle clones, no longer work. Their websites have disappeared, and their cloud storagehosted Amazonis removed.
The news was broken up by Techcrunch Earlier this week, who said that the reason behind the disappearance is not obvious, but it could be linked to data breaches that took place earlier this year.
“Consumer quality protection operations are known to be closed (or completely rebrand) after a hack or data breach, usually in an attempt to escape from legal and reputation fallout“Written the publication.
The Gray Zone
“Letmenspy, a spyware that developed from Poland, confirmed his” permanent shutdown “in August 2023 after a data breach had wiped out the developer’s servers. The US-based Spywaremaker PCTattletale went out of business and was closed in May 2024 after a hack and website deviation.”
Spouse, or spywareis a type of application that works in the gray zone. It is advertised as a legitimate software, used to keep minors, people with special needs and similar. However, it is usually only a cover for illegal activities, such as spying other members of the household, love interests and similar.
Given its nature, the development team and the most important people are usually hidden, making members of the media difficult to get a comment or an explanation.
At the end of February of this year, two of the apps – Cocospy and Spyic – were found that uncover sensitive user data: E -mail addresses, SMS messages, Urpwogbooks, photos and other sensitive information. In addition, researchers were able to exhailtrate 1.81 million e -mail addresses that were used to register with Cocospy, and around 880,000 addresses used for Spyic. In addition to e -mail addresses, the researcher succeeded in gaining access to most data harvested by the apps, including photos, messages and drilling plays.
Only a week later broke similar news for Spyzie. The app was found to leak e -mail addresses, SMS reports, drilling plays, photos and other sensitive data, belonging to millions of people who, without their knowledge or permission, have installed these apps on their devices. The people who have installed those apps, in most cases, partners, parents, important others, have also exposed their e -mail addresses in the same way.
By Techcrunch
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