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North Korean government hackers snuck spyware on Android app store | TechCrunch

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Cybersecurity firm Lookout details an espionage campaign involving several samples of an Android spyware it calls KoSpy .

At least one of the spyware apps was at some point on Google Play and downloaded more than 10 times, according to a Lookout report.

The goals of the North Korean spyware campaign are not known, but Lookout ’s director of security intelligence research Christoph Hebeisen told TechCrunch that with only a few downloads, it was likely targeting specific people.

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