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Mobile App Spyware Developer Indicted on US Charges

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday September 30 2014, @05:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the You-got-served! dept.

n1 writes:

Phys.org reports:

The head of a Pakistani company which created an app called StealthGenie allowing users to spy on other people's mobile devices was indicted on US criminal charges, officials said Monday.

The Justice Department said the indictment of Hammad Akbar, 31, of Lahore, Pakistan, is the first-ever criminal case concerning the advertisement and sale of a mobile device spyware app.

Akbar is chief executive of InvoCode Pvt Ltd, which advertises and sells StealthGenie online and which uses a data center based in Virginia.

The app enables the monitoring of voice calls and chats on mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone and Android handsets.

According to officials the business plan of the group was to market the app to people who suspected cheating by a spouse or partner.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by melikamp on Wednesday October 01 2014, @05:44AM

    by melikamp (1886) on Wednesday October 01 2014, @05:44AM (#100306) Journal
    I don't see how this software is different from Windows or OS X or any commercially available Android platform: these are instances of software designed from the ground up to spy on its users. They report everything you do on the Web by default, and they are all turn-key video-audio bugs.
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