Wednesday, October 1, 2014

FBI arrests supplier of spy software for smartphones – Mac & i

“In five minutes spy on any cell phone” – so should a 31-year-old the spy app Stealth Genie have applied until it got cold call from the FBI. According to the investigators, the software is clearly the foreign spying mobile phones.

The FBI has made the first provider of monitoring software for smartphones arrest [1] . On Saturday last week, the investigating agency arrested in Los Angeles a 31-year-old Pakistani, whose company InvoCode to put stealth genius behind the spy software.

The program offers comprehensive remote access capabilities on Android, BlackBerry and iOS smartphones : About the portal of the manufacturer could eavesdrop about calls, SMS and chat messages read along, retrieve files and retrieve the GPS location – even retroactively. In order to tap a cell phone, the Stealth Genie users manually had to install an app on the device, which should be then difficult to discover. In the case of iOS jailbreak was previously necessary.

There may be legitimate reasons to access remotely on a smartphone, but the seller made no secret of the fact that constituted a “cell phone spy software” , the “100% undetectable” is. “If you want to monitor your child, spouse or even your employee’s mobile phone unnoticed, then Stealth Genie is the right software for you,” it says in the German Product Description [2] .

The competent United States Attorney stated that Stealth Genie have little benefit, except invade the privacy of others. The defendant is accused, among other things, to have equipment for undetected surveillance advertised and sold. One day before the arrest, the FBI has led to a court order, or that the Stealth Genie servers are at least temporarily withdrawn from the network. <- AUTHOR DATA MARKER BEGIN -> <-! RSPEAK_STOP -> ( rei [3] )
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