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Spyzie stalkerware is spying on thousands of Android and iPhone users
Another little-known phone monitoring outfit has quietly amassed half a million customers, whose email addresses are now in Have I Been Pwned.
A little-known phone surveillance operation called Spyzie has compromised more than half a million Android devices and thousands of iPhones and iPads, according to data shared by a security researcher. The security researcher told TechCrunch that Spyzie is vulnerable to the same bug as Cocospy and Spyic, two near-identical but differently branded stalkerware apps that share the same source code and exposed the data of more than 2 million people, as we reported last week. This latest leak shows how increasingly prevalent consumer phone surveillance apps have become among civil society, even from little-known operations like Spyzie, which barely have any online presence and are largely banned by Google from running ads in search results, and yet have amassed thousands of paying customers.
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