The list of high-profile people who are getting targeted includes business executives, human rights activists, journalists, academics and government officials.
Move over Pegasus, Hermit is reportedly the new Android spyware that is being used by the governments to target high-profile officials. The list of high-profile people who are being targeted includes business executives, human rights activists, journalists, academics and government officials. The spyware that is installed in the target’s system through an SMS was first spotted in Kazakhstan. Eventually, cases from Syria and Italy also erupted a couple of days later.
«Based on our analysis, the spyware, which we named ‘Hermit’ is likely developed by Italian spyware vendor RCS Lab and Tykelab Srl, a telecommunications solutions company we suspect to be operating as a front company», the researchers said in a blog post.
