- Three spouse software applications have disappeared, found journalists
- All three flee sensitive data
- It is not uncommon for spouse’s software applications to disappear and rename after a security accident
Three spouse software applications – Cocospy, Spyic and Spyzie, have become dark. The applications, which are all essentially clones of each other, no longer work. Their websites have disappeared and their cloud storage, hosted on Amazon, is deleted.
The news was broken by Techcrunch Earlier this week, which said that the reason for the disappearance is not clearly obvious, but that it could be linked to data violations that occurred earlier this year.
“Consumer phones surveillance operations are known to close (or rename it entirely) as a result of hacking or data violation, generally in order to escape legal and reputation benefits,” wrote publication.
The gray area
“Letmaspy, spy software developed from Poland, confirmed its” permanent judgment “in August 2023 after a data breach destroyed the developer’s servers. The manufacturer of spy software based in the United States PCTATTTLETALTAL was deformed and closed in May 2024 following a hack and the degradation of the website.”
The spouse, or spy software, is a type of application that works in the gray area. It is announced as legitimate software, used to keep track of minors, people with special and similar needs. However, most of the time, it is only a coverage for illegal activities, such as spying other members of the house, love and similar interests.
Given its nature, the development team and key people are generally hidden, which makes it difficult for media members to obtain a comment or a declaration.
At the end of February of this year, two of the applications – Cocospy and Spyic – were found exhibiting sensitive user data: email addresses, text messages, call logs, photographs and other sensitive information. In addition, the researchers were able to exfiltrate 1.81 million email addresses used to register with Cocospy and around 880,000 addresses used for the Spyic. In addition to the email addresses, the researcher managed to access most of the data collected by applications, including images, messages and call newspapers.
A week later, similar news broke out for Spyzie. The application was found email addresses, text messages, call logs, photographs and other sensitive data, belonging to millions of people who, to their knowledge or consent, have made these applications install on their devices. The people who installed these applications, in most cases partner, relatives, relatives, also had their email addresses exposed in the same way.
Via Techcrunch
