Virus has allowed for years to "keep us under control" through our Android smartphones. Probably Lebanese hacker

A malicious virus has been found to have turned smartphones running Android into spy devices that for years allowed “someone” to steal data from millions of users of all types, including military, activists and government officials. His name is Pallas and the hacker group that conceived and “launched” him is most likely of Lebanese origin, even suspected of being linked to the state of the country of the cedars. The alarm comes from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Lookout security, whose report establishes that since 2012 various campaigns have been activated for the propagation of these spyware, as they are called, aimed at users of Android smartphones, while no cases have been documented of attack of iOS devices. The scheme of action of the hacker group called Dark Caracal is no different from that used in similar cases: once it has taken control of the terminal, the software begins to acquire and transmit information without the knowledge of the victim. According to the researchers, the data was found on a server located in a building belonging to Lebanese institutions. A server that would have been unsecured, hence the discovery. The virus hides in fake messaging apps, Google has denied the BBC that infected applications could have been downloaded from its Play Store. In this regard, Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity of the Electronic Frontier Foundation commented: "This is a campaign focused on mobile devices, the future of espionage because they store so much people's data".

Virus has allowed for years to "keep us under control" through our Android smartphones. Probably Lebanese hacker