New Delhi, First Published Jun 18, 2022, 2:50 PM IST
Cyber security researchers have discovered a processor called the Hermit that monitors and spies on Android. The Hermit has come at a time when the use of Pegasus has caused great trouble.
Hermit is a processor used by governments to spy on SMS sent by their top officials, and to spy on big business, human rights activists, journalists, academics, and top government officials.
Cyber security company Lookout Threat Lab has detected this spy processor. It was discovered last April when the Kazakh government used the process. Massive protests erupted against the government in Kazakhstan. The government used this processor to control it.
Cyber Security Analysts commented on the blog that “at the end of our research, the spy processor Hermit was developed by the Italian companies RCS Lab and Dyklape SRL”.
This is not the first time the Hermit processor has come into circulation, and during the crackdown on corruption in 2019, Italian authorities used the Hermit processor.
Researchers say they have found evidence of the use of the Hermit processor in a Kurdish area in northeastern Syria.
RCS Lab, which created Hermit, is a company that has been operating for 30 years. Hermட்டும்s is also in the market for SSO Group Technology and Gamma Group, which developed Pegasus.
RCS Lab has donated its Hermit processor to the intelligence services of Pakistan, Chile, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Myanmar and Turkmenistan.
RCS Labs offers customers the Hermit processor only for legal spying. Government intelligence, in particular, provides for intelligence.
But cybersecurity experts say that many countries that buy in the name of national security use it to spy on and spy on governments, big business, journalists, human rights activists, academics and top government officials.
Last Updated Jun 18, 2022, 2:50 PM IST