"Hacked Phone Spyware Shuts Down… Again"

Oospy, a short-lived spyware operation that emerged earlier this year after its predecessor Spyhide was compromised, has ceased operations. In July, Oospy appeared online as a rebranding of the phone monitoring app called Spyhide, which enabled the surveillance of tens of thousands of Android device owners. After a security breach exposed the operation and its administrators, Spyhide was shut down. Spyhide's website vanished from the Internet after the breach disrupted the operation, but the spyware's back-end server remained online and continued to communicate with the phones it was monitoring because it was hosted on a different domain. This allowed the administrators to rebrand Spyhide as Oospy without impacting the spyware's functionality. This article continues to discuss the Oospy spyware operation and its predecessor Spyhide.

TechCrunch reports "Hacked Phone Spyware Shuts Down… Again"

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