NCSC and partners share guidance for communities at high risk of digital surveillance
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Spyware variants MOONSHINE and BADBAZAAR are being used to target mobile devices of individuals around the world.

Apps hiding malicious functions collect data – including location, audio and camera – which could facilitate surveillance and harassment.

  • xodoh74984@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7717·
    12 days ago

    Isn’t every app that’s not open source assumed to be spyware nowadays?

    Wake me up when this sort of thing is actually illegal. Preferably punishable with jail time.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      581·
      12 days ago

      This isn’t that. This isn’t “let us collect data on you so we can aggregate it and monetize it, it’s buried in the EULA.”

      This is state-sponsored actual malware being used to identify, target, track specific individuals.

      • bizarroland@fedia.io
        239·
        12 days ago

        Yeah, and?

        Do you honestly believe there’s a single person on lemmy with enough gravitas to be worth being tracked by the elite?

        • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
          181·
          12 days ago

          Maybe. The bad actor here seems to be the government of China, and the linked page says:

          The individuals most at risk include anyone connected to: Taiwanese independence; Tibetan rights; Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in or from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; democracy advocacy, including Hong Kong, and the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

          I can imagine them casting a wide net.

        • darkkite@lemmy.mlEnglish
          81·
          12 days ago

          yes, absolutely. plently of programmers here with various agendas