Spyware app pcTattletale was hacked and its website defaced
Reading Time: 2 minutesU.S.-made consumer-grade spyware app pcTattletale has been hacked and its internal data published to its own website, according to a hacker who claimed responsibility for the breach.
pcTattletale’s founder Bryan Fleming did not return an email requesting comment. It’s not clear if Fleming can receive email due to his company’s ongoing outage.
The hacker did not provide a specific motivation for the breach. The hack comes several days after a security researcher said he found and reported a vulnerability in the spyware app itself, which leaks the screenshots of the devices it was planted on. The researcher, Eric Daigle, said he did not publish specific details of the flaw because pcTattletale ignored requests to fix the vulnerability.
The hacker who compromised and defaced pcTattletale’s website did not exploit the vulnerability that Daigle found, but said pcTattletale’s servers could be tricked into turning over the private keys for its Amazon Web Services account, which grants access to the spyware’s operations.
pcTattletale, a kind of remote access app often referred to as ‘stalkerware’ for its ability to track people without their knowledge or consent, allows the person who planted the app to remotely view the target’s Android or Windows device and its data from anywhere in the world. pcTattletale says the app ‘runs invisibly in the background on their workstations and can not be detected.’ Spyware apps are stealthy by nature, and as such are difficult to identify and remove.
That list of hacked spyware makers includes LetMeSpy, a spyware made by a Polish developer, which shut down in June 2023 after its systems were hacked and its backend data deleted; and TheTruthSpy, a phone spyware operation created and operated by Vietnamese developers, which was hacked again in February.
Other hacked spyware makers include KidsGuard, Xnspy, Support King, Spyhide — and now, pcTattletale.
Ref: techcrunch
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