New revelations have just been published concerning the documents stolen from the firm Hacking Team. It is learned that the company was able to bypass Google Play security systems.
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The implication of this information is that Hacking Team could make applications available to users, without being blocked by Google, while its applications had vulnerabilities exploited by the firm to spy on them.
Hacking Team was able to fool the Google Play security checks
To return to the facts, Hacking Team is an Italian security firm enough decried because his specialty is to sell spy solutions. She works with many governments who want to spy individuals, companies or entire population ... However, there is little spy, was a spy! More than 400 GB of data were stolen Hacking Team and are published on the web.
Many companies now analyze this valuable information and some more are discovered every day, how Hacking Team spying on PC or mobile via security flaws, like the Flash Player for example. Since it is easier to create a fault, than to discover, the Italian company has decided to create vulnerable mobile applications, she put online on the Play Store, bypassing the security procedures Google.
BeNews allowed to download and run some of the code from the internet
The example put forward to demonstrate this ability of the Italian firm, is BeNews application, an application designed to provide news without Google's detection systems have not noticed anything. Today, this application is no longer present in the Play Store, Google has taken the decision to remove it on 7 July. As explained by ZDnet, it can escape the restrictions of Google using dynamic loading technology.
For its part, Trend Micro who studied BeNews technology in depth, explains that " allows the application to download and run some of the code from the Internet. The code will not be called when Google verifies the application, but it will push the code later when the victim begins to use it . "
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The implication of this information is that Hacking Team could make applications available to users, without being blocked by Google, while its applications had vulnerabilities exploited by the firm to spy on them.
Hacking Team was able to fool the Google Play security checks
To return to the facts, Hacking Team is an Italian security firm enough decried because his specialty is to sell spy solutions. She works with many governments who want to spy individuals, companies or entire population ... However, there is little spy, was a spy! More than 400 GB of data were stolen Hacking Team and are published on the web.
Many companies now analyze this valuable information and some more are discovered every day, how Hacking Team spying on PC or mobile via security flaws, like the Flash Player for example. Since it is easier to create a fault, than to discover, the Italian company has decided to create vulnerable mobile applications, she put online on the Play Store, bypassing the security procedures Google.
BeNews allowed to download and run some of the code from the internet
The example put forward to demonstrate this ability of the Italian firm, is BeNews application, an application designed to provide news without Google's detection systems have not noticed anything. Today, this application is no longer present in the Play Store, Google has taken the decision to remove it on 7 July. As explained by ZDnet, it can escape the restrictions of Google using dynamic loading technology.
For its part, Trend Micro who studied BeNews technology in depth, explains that " allows the application to download and run some of the code from the Internet. The code will not be called when Google verifies the application, but it will push the code later when the victim begins to use it . "