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Revealed: French Cyber spies used malware from GitHub to hack EncroChat cryptophone network | Computer Weekly
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#France #Android #EnroChat #GitHub #BudBinderBug
Computer Weekly reveals for the first time how French cyber spies hacked EncroChat phones, used by organised crime groups, in 2020. In the first of two major articles, we describe how a Czech spyware company rehacked the French hack and found that French malware – described as a national security secret – had been copied from popular code-sharing platform GitHub.
The secret French state hacking group that broke into tens of thousands of encrypted secure phones in Europe used an Android exploit first spotted in 2017, CW can reveal. For two years, a fatal security vulnerability, known as the Bad Binder bug, was left unpatched inside 2.5 billion phones, leaving users at maximum risk. The exploit allowed cyber spies to take complete control of infected phones and copy or change users’ data, programs and files at will.
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