This Thursday (23) Alphabet Confirmed An Italian spyware was used to spy on Google and Apple smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan. Milan-based company RCS Laboratory It acts as a developer of spy tools and has worked with European police units.
While the company says that all of its products and services comply with European laws, RCS Lab also reiterates that it does not condone any illegal activity by its customers. Founded in 1993, the company can intercept data, voice and track targets, approx. 10k daily goal only in Europe.
But the situation worries Google, which claims that such behavior could help “proliferate dangerous hacking tools and arm governments that may not be able to develop this type of technology in-house.”
According to Bill Marczak, a digital security researcher at Citizen Lab, spyware is not the most powerful known software like Pegasus. but it has the ability to read messages and view passwords. Bill Leonard, a senior researcher at Google, said that the tool’s targets are one of a kind. relationship with the government.
Both Google and Apple have already taken steps to revoke access to these tools on Android and iOS operating systems. The government of Kazakhstan and Italy has not yet commented on the incident.
Source: Tec Mundo
