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EXPOSED: Samsung phones in West Asia/North Africa (WANA) region embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware (www.thecanary.co)

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An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat

Original article from May: https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/

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[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's a joke, right? So you can be sure that more data is being spied on and that firmware itself is equipped with backdoors...
So the data mentioned in the article... if you're authorized to do so, you just need to buy it from the nearest data broker...

Spyware as a listed app... from isreal? Common we dont talk about noobs.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This info actually dropped months ago but it didnt get much mainstream coverage i think.

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Cellebrite, NGO, Paragon. Then you only need to think about the pager story...
If Aura wasn't supposed to be discovered, it certainly wouldn't have been stored as an app. That's all I wanted to say.