Key Findings
- This joint investigation with First Department, a legal assistance organization, found spyware covertly implanted on a phone returned to a Russian programmer accused of sending money to Ukraine after he was released from custody.
- He describes being subjected to beatings and an intense effort to recruit him as an informant for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).
- Our analysis finds that the spyware placed on his device allows the operator to track a target device’s location, record phone calls, keystrokes, and read messages from encrypted messaging apps, among other capabilities.
- The spyware bears many similarities to the Monokle family of spyware, previously reported on by Lookout Mobile Security, which they attribute to the “Special Technology Center,” a contractor to the Russian government.
- Our analysis also finds certain differences from previously-reported samples of Monokle spyware, suggesting that it is either an updated version of Monokle or new software created by reusing much of the same code.
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If your device is ever taken from you by an agency and then returned standard operating procedure should be to just ditch that device entirely as it is highly likely to be compromised.
Sounds like propaganda to me.
Sounds entirely plausible to me. I would not trust a device confiscated by authorities in any country.
I wouldn’t either. Though wiping and boot attestation of GrapheneOS put up a higher tampering threshold.
Explain why.
