
Stories about surveillance tools like Pegasus and Dark Caracal’s Pallas are memorable because they tell the story of a severe privacy threat with profound impact on victims’ lives. However, when commercial spyware is used to monitor a partner’s or domestic abuse victim’s every communication (sent or received) and location, the impact can be every bit as serious.
By leveraging our mobile dataset, the world’s largest, Lookout provided insights on mobile threats for the Verizon Mobile Security Index 2019 report.
Through close collaboration with an enterprise customer, Lookout identified Overseer, a piece of spyware we found in four apps live on the Google Play store.The malware was also injected as a trojan in Russian and European News applications for Android.