Spyzie Exploits Phone Bug

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Spyzie stalkerware is spying on thousands of Android and iPhone users | TechCrunch

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Spyzie has compromised more than half a million Android devices and thousands of iPhones and iPads , according to data shared by a security researcher.

Spyzie is vulnerable to the same bug as Cocospy and Spyic , which exposed the data of more than 2 million people.

The bug allows anyone to access the phone data, including messages, photos, and location data, exfiltrated from any device compromised by Spyzie .

The leak shows how increasingly prevalent consumer phone surveillance apps have become among civil society.

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