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EXPOSED: Samsung phones in West Asia/North Africa (WANA) region embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware (www.thecanary.co)

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An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat

Original article from May: https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This info actually dropped months ago but it didnt get much mainstream coverage i think.

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cellebrite, NGO, Paragon. Then you only need to think about the pager story...
If Aura wasn't supposed to be discovered, it certainly wouldn't have been stored as an app. That's all I wanted to say.