Smartphone spyware can steal WhatsApp messages from Android phones

The malware, dubbed

a

Skygofree, can switch on the microphone when a smartphone enters a specified location. It is capable of seizing call records, calendar events and locations stored on the device’s memory, according to Russian cyber security researchers at Kaspersky Lab.

The researchers said it had been found on malicious websites in Italy and had been developed by an Italian IT company.

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