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The list of apps being monitored which are hardcoded directly in the implant[1] include : com.yahoo.Aerogram com.microsoft.Office.Outlook com.netea
by yamrzou 7y ago
The list of apps being monitored which are hardcoded directly in the implant[1] include :
com.yahoo.Aerogram
com.microsoft.Office.Outlook
com.netease.mailmaster
com.rebelvox.voxer-lite
com.viber
com.google.Gmail
ph.telegra.Telegraph
com.tencent.qqmail
com.atebits.Tweetie2
net.whatsapp.WhatsApp
com.skype.skype
com.facebook.Facebook
com.tencent.xin
[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/implant-teardown.html https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/implant-teard...
- zatkin 7y agoThese are all social networking services. Maybe, just maybe, this was tied to the PRISM program led by the NSA?
- ryanlol 7y agoMaybe, just maybe, this was tied to the space program at NASA? Tremendously unlikely, PRISM was something very different from this.
- londons_explore 7y agoPRISM would have had to migrate to methods like this with the rise in e2e encryption. I doubt they'd have written such shoddy and simple implant code though. At a minimum, they would have encrypted the data uploaded, since intelligence agencies love to steal data from other intelligence agencies, and sniffing wires I'm sure isn't unique to the USA.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoNo, PRISM had nothing to do with this at all. PRISM didn’t involve any sort of attack or offensive capability, and anything doing that would not be PRISM.
- ehsankia 7y agoWasn't PRISM mostly to spy on Americans? Most of the apps there aren't very popular in the US, and half of them are just straight up Chinese. Seems more like it would be a PRISM-like program but in some Asian country or China.
- ttyyuuooe 7y agoChinese companies would just give the data to the government. So there would be no need to spy on them.
- londons_explore 7y agoThis is an odd list. Some big messaging apps like Signal and Line are notably missing, while tools like Mail Master and Voxer seem like pretty minor players compared to the rest. Is there a particular region of the world or community where this specific list makes most sense?
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- hannob 7y ago> Some big messaging apps like Signal and Line are notably missing Line is mostly used in Japan, Signal is mostly used by nerds. So you can assume neither japanese peopel nor nerd were their primary target. Given that this is true for the vast majority of the world population I'd not call this odd.
- londons_explore 7y agoThere is also Facebook Messenger which seems to be missing, and "Messenger Lite", made for parts of the world without good connectivity, neither of which are on the list despite being very popular.
- feanaro 7y agoI've recently seen a surge of non-nerd Signal users. Mostly random people from my contacts starting to use it.
- kemayo 7y agoHopefully a popularity surge will translate into the app getting better. It's notably less pleasant to use than Telegram, which I'd think of as its closest competitor.
- FabHK 7y agoGiven that Telegram uses an entirely different encryption scheme, and does not e2e encrypt by default, I'd consider Wire (using some variation of the Signal protocol) the closest competitor. And Wire is rather pleasant to use, with clients on many platforms, sign-up with phone number or email, encrypted voice chat, encrypted group chats, etc.
- axxl 7y agoIn addition though: > The command-and-control server can also query for a list of all 3rd party apps and request uploads of their container directories.