There is a whole shady industry for people who want to monitor and spy on their families. Multiple app makers promote and advertise their software — often referred to as stalkerware — to jealous ...

A stalkerware company has taken all of its assets offline with little explanation, in the wake of a compromise earlier this year. In February 2025, three stalkerware apps — known as Spyzie, Cocospy, ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

According to TechCrunch, the June 2024 breach remained unreported until now. There is also no indication that SpyX’s operators ever notified affected customers or their spyware targets. This is even ...

Amazon will not say if it plans to take action against three phone surveillance apps that are storing troves of individuals’ private phone data on Amazon’s cloud servers, despite TechCrunch notifying ...

I get calls every week from people who think someone’s watching their every move. Sometimes they’re wrong. But stalkerware attacks on Android phones surged 29% in 2025, 26 spy app companies have been ...

Imagine downloading an app onto someone else’s phone. That app can transmit the phone’s location, activity, and sometimes even data, all without the user’s knowledge. That’s basically what a ...

Google is now offering wide access to real-time scam call alerts on Android, and can even warn you of malware that has stayed hidden for a long time. The previously promised Scam Detection in Android ...

After demoing at I/O 2024 in May, Google is rolling out real-time Scam Detection for phone calls on Pixel devices. Scam Detection listens for “conversation patterns commonly associated with scams.” ...

Google is adding a new AI-powered scam protection feature that monitors phone call conversations on Google Pixel devices to detect patterns that warn when the caller may be a scammer. Google has also ...