Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The makers of two phone surveillance services appear to have shuttered after the owner agreed to settle state accusations of ...

Imagine downloading an app onto someone else’s phone. That app can transmit the phone’s location, activity, and sometimes even data, all without the user’s knowledge. That’s basically what a ...

A stalkerware maker who was banned from the surveillance industry after a data breach that exposed the personal information of its customers, as well as the people they were spying on, will not be ...

A stalkerware company has taken all of its assets offline with little explanation, in the wake of a compromise earlier this year. In February 2025, three stalkerware apps — known as Spyzie, Cocospy, ...

According to TechCrunch, the June 2024 breach remained unreported until now. There is also no indication that SpyX’s operators ever notified affected customers or their spyware targets. This is even ...

A spyware app called pcTattletale was recently discovered tapping into the systems of several Wyndham hotels in the US. The spyware was reportedly able to capture screenshots of the hotel booking ...

A stalkerware maker with a history of multiple data leaks and breaches now has a critical security vulnerability that allows anyone to take over any user account and steal their victim’s sensitive ...

An independent researcher claims that commercial grade spyware tool pcTattletale was found to leak live-screen recordings/screenshots to the internet, making it accessible by anyone and not just the ...

Amazon will not say if it plans to take action against three phone surveillance apps that are storing troves of individuals’ private phone data on Amazon’s cloud servers, despite TechCrunch notifying ...

Another scummy stalkerware app has spilled its guts, revealing the details of its 62,000 users – and data from thousands of victims’ infected devices. Security researcher Eric Daigle found a ...

Apple's macOS Sequoia, now in beta testing, will make it harder to bypass Gatekeeper warnings and add system alerts for potential stalkerware threats. Gatekeeper is a security feature that checks all ...

Stalkerware is up 239%: Apps like mSpy and Life360 market themselves as ways to track your kids. Abusers use them to see everywhere their partner goes. This is no small problem; 85% of domestic ...