A Portuguese-language spyware called WebDetetive has been used to compromise more than 76,000 Android phones in recent years across South America, largely in Brazil. WebDetetive is also the latest phone spyware company in recent months to have been hacked. In an undated note seen by TechCrunch, the unnamed hackers described how they found and exploited several security vulnerabilities that allowed them to compromise WebDetetive's servers and access to its user databases.
A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims' devices 'deleted' from server
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A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims' devices 'deleted' from server
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A June data breach wiped out the spyware maker's servers, including its huge trove of data stolen from thousands of victims' phones.