HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Better Business Bureau is sending out a new warning about “stalkerware” or apps that can give another person access to someone else’s phone. They saw a large number of cases in ...

Mobile stalkerware, also known as spouseware, is monitoring software silently installed by a stalker onto a victim’s device without the victim’s knowledge. Generally, the stalker needs to have ...

There is a whole shady industry for people who want to monitor and spy on their families. Multiple app makers promote and advertise their software — often referred to as stalkerware — to jealous ...

The defining feature of 2020 is the global coronavirus pandemic, and a grim effect of the stay-at-home orders has been the documented increase in domestic abuse. If someone is in an abusive ...

Stalkerware is often installed secretly on mobile phones by abusive spouses, ex partners and other close contacts to spy on their targets TEMPE, Ariz. and PRAGUE, March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The ...

A trio of phone surveillance apps, which was caught spying on millions of people’s phones earlier this year, has gone offline. Stalkerware apps, like Cocospy and its clones, are designed to stay ...

The official app store is taking on spy- and surveillance-ware, along with apps that could be used to mount political-influence campaigns. Google is taking the step of prohibiting “stalkerware” in ...

Android stalker and spyware detection surged by 48% over the past year, and not only do these apps invade user privacy, vendors do not appear to care about tackling vulnerabilities found in their ...

COVID-19 impacted volumes for the year, but the U.S. moved into third place on the list of countries most infected by stalkerware. Tens of thousands of mobile users were infected by the class of ...

is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Google is correcting a “typo” in its Play Store “stalkerware” ...