Italian company uses spyware to hack cell phones

Thousands of cell phones Androids and iOS can be at risk of being hacked by spyware whose development was carried out by an Italian company with the aim of hacking private messages and personal contacts.

In an effort to make cell phones more secure, Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has published reports on cell phone vulnerabilities. Check out the full article from how to know if your cell phone is being attacked.

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How to know if your phone is being attacked?

Recently, TAG reported that RCS Labs, a company based in Milan, created tools to spy on private messages, as well as passwords and user contacts. These tools have been used to spy on the phones of people based in Italy and Kazakhstan.

To find out if your phone is at risk, TAG reveals that spyware uses a combination of clever tactics to break into a user's phone. Among these is trying to get people to download a

malicious app on your Android or iOS device.

Another way used is to disable user data through your operator, then sending a link via text message, as if you were the operator, so that the problem is “fixed”.

According to the RCS Labs website, they have European law enforcement agencies as clients. However, Google claims the problem is that they are allowing hacking tools to proliferate. dangerous and, furthermore, arming governments that would not be able to develop these resources domestically.

Spyware can be very dangerous, especially if it falls into the wrong hands. Even this isn't the first time a spyware company has been caught hacking into phones. Spyware Pegasus, from the Israeli company NSO, was found spying on journalists and activists in different governments around the world.

There may be little reason to be concerned for now, as the attack does not appear to be widespread and there are no indications that users in other countries have been affected. However, it is indeed something to keep an eye on.