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Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years
Italian company SIO, which sells to government customers, is behind an Android spyware campaign called Spyrtacus that spoofed popular apps like WhatsApp, per security researchers.
In recent weeks, Italy has been embroiled in an ongoing scandal involving the alleged use of a sophisticated spying tool made by Israeli spyware maker Paragon. The spyware is capable of remotely targeting WhatsApp users and stealing data from their phones, and was allegedly used against a journalist and twofounders of an NGO that helps and rescues immigrants in the Mediterranean. In 2003, the two Italian hackers David Vincenzetti and Valeriano Bedeschi founded the startup Hacking Team, one of the first companies to recognize that there was an international market for turnkey, easy-to-use, spyware systems for law enforcement and government intelligence agencies all over the world.
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