Bill Toulas reports:
After a Russian programmer was detained by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) for fifteen days and his phone confiscated, it was discovered that a new spyware was secretly installed on his device upon its return.
The programmer, Kirill Parubets, was arrested by the FSB after being accused of donating to Ukraine. After regaining access to his mobile device, the programmer suspected it was tampered with by the Russian government after it exhibited unusual behavior and displayed a notifications stating, “Arm cortex vx3 synchronization.”
After sharing it with Citizen Lab for forensic analysis, investigators confirmed that spyware had been installed on the device that impersonated a legitimate and popular Android app ‘Cube Call Recorder,’ which has over 10,000,000 downloads on Google Play.
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