{"id":4301,"date":"2025-07-07T12:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2025-07-07T12:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:45:54","slug":"supplier-of-covert-surveillance-app-spills-passwords-for-62000-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=4301","title":{"rendered":"Supplier of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/getty-surveillance-1152x648.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The maker of a cellphone app that&#8217;s marketed as offering a stealthy means for monitoring all actions on an Android system spilled electronic mail addresses, plain-text passwords, and different delicate knowledge belonging to 62,000 customers, a researcher found just lately.<\/p>\n<p>A safety flaw within the app, branded Catwatchful, allowed researcher Eric Daigle to obtain a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ericdaigle.ca\/posts\/taking-over-60k-spyware-user-accounts\/\">trove of delicate knowledge<\/a>, which belonged to account holders who used the covert app to watch telephones. The leak, made attainable by a SQL injection vulnerability, allowed anybody who exploited it to entry the accounts and all knowledge saved in them.<\/p>\n<h2>Unstoppable<\/h2>\n<p>Catwatchful creators emphasize the app&#8217;s stealth and safety. Whereas the promoters declare the app is authorized and meant for folks monitoring their kids&#8217;s on-line actions, the emphasis on stealth has raised issues that it is being geared toward folks with different agendas.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/07\/provider-of-covert-surveillance-app-spills-passwords-for-62000-users\/\">Learn full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/07\/provider-of-covert-surveillance-app-spills-passwords-for-62000-users\/#comments\">Feedback<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The maker of a cellphone app that&#8217;s marketed as offering a stealthy means for monitoring all actions on an Android system spilled electronic mail addresses, plain-text passwords, and different delicate knowledge belonging to 62,000 customers, a researcher found just lately. A safety flaw within the app, branded Catwatchful, allowed researcher Eric Daigle to obtain a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[205,3867,3870,2929,3869,3868,342],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-app","tag-covert","tag-passwords","tag-provider","tag-spills","tag-surveillance","tag-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4302,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions\/4302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template:. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template: 69d9690a190636c2e0989534. Config Timestamp: 2026-04-10 21:18:02 UTC, Cached Timestamp: 2026-06-13 15:22:03 UTC -->