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Google warns of new spyware targeting iOS and Android users — Wired

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Google’s Threat Analysis Group and Project Zero vulnerability analysis team published findings about the iOS version of a spyware product attributed to the Italian developer RCS Labs, writes Lily Hay Newman.

Here is the link: https://www.wired.com/story/hermit-spyware-rcs-labs/

Read Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) blog post here: https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/italian-spyware-vendor-targets-users-in-italy-and-kazakhstan/

Find the update by Ian Beer from Google’s Project Zero here: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/06/curious-case-carrier-app.html

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