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Chinese law enforcement uses the mobilesurveillance tool EagleMsgSpy to gather data from Android devices, as detailed by Lookout. Researchers at the Lookout Threat Lab discovered a surveillance tool, dubbed EagleMsgSpy, used by Chinese law enforcement to spy on mobile devices. The IP address 202.107.80[.]34
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Court documents state that on October 29, 2019, plaintiffs filed this lawsuit, alleging that the defendants used WhatsApp to target approximately 1,400 mobile phones and devices to infect them with the surveillance software. NSOs witnesses have refused to answer whether it developed further WhatsApp-based Malware Vectors thereafter.
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