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Something to Remember Us By: Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned with Monokle-Type Spyware Installed (citizenlab.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Key Findings

  • This joint investigation with First Department, a legal assistance organization, found spyware covertly implanted on a phone returned to a Russian programmer accused of sending money to Ukraine after he was released from custody.
  • He describes being subjected to beatings and an intense effort to recruit him as an informant for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).
  • Our analysis finds that the spyware placed on his device allows the operator to track a target device’s location, record phone calls, keystrokes, and read messages from encrypted messaging apps, among other capabilities.
  • The spyware bears many similarities to the Monokle family of spyware, previously reported on by Lookout Mobile Security, which they attribute to the “Special Technology Center,” a contractor to the Russian government.
  • Our analysis also finds certain differences from previously-reported samples of Monokle spyware, suggesting that it is either an updated version of Monokle or new software created by reusing much of the same code.
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