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Report shows stalkerware is not declining
Nearly 30000 people globally were affected by stalkerware, according to Kaspersky’s The State of Stalkerware in 2022. The annual report produced by Kaspersky to promote a better understanding of how many people in the world are affected by digital...
Read moreCoalition Against Stalkerware calls on Apple to mitigate abuse of WiFi Sync
UK cybersecurity firm Certo, a partner of the Coalition Against Stalkerware, has written a blog post about an iPhone feature that is being abused by stalkerware in a way that is hard to detect for the user. Called ‘WiFi Sync’, the feature all...
Read moreStalkerware maker fined in the US and required to notify victims
The Coalition Against Stalkerware is very happy with the news that the New York Attorney General secured a US$410,000 fine from a developer of stalkerware (pdf), together with a requirement to notify the victims of the stalkerware. The notification ...
Read moreTechCrunch builds spyware look-up tool for Android devices
Zack Whittaker, Security Editor at TechCrunch, today announced that the publication has created a‘spyware look-up tool’ capable of determining whether Android devices have been targeted by agroup of stalkerware applications. Following a pione...
Read moreAustralian charged with developing and selling desktop stalkerware
Last week, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced that it has charged a 24-year old Australian national for allegedly creating and selling the Imminent Monitor remote access trojan (RAT), which had been used by many domestic abusers and which...
Read moreAvast and Refuge Launch ‘Digital Break-Up’ Kit to Raise Awareness of Tech Abuse
19 July 2022 Almost half of Brits (47%) know someone else’s online password; with one in five of them knowing their ex partner’s password Avast, a global leader in digital security and privacy, and Refuge, the UK’s largest single provide...
Read moreVisit TinyCheck’s brand new page – a free, open-source tool for detecting stalkerware on your mobile device
In 2019, as a response to the growing threat of stalkerware, researchers from Kaspersky developed TinyCheck. TinyCheck is a free, safe and easy to use tool that allows the scanning of a device for stalkerware and spyware programs without making the ...
Read moreAnnual Kaspersky report on stalkerware highlights the link between online and offline violence
In the third edition of “The State of Stalkerware Report 2021” Kaspersky presents findings on the impact of stalkerware on its victims and the state of stalkerware in the world. Kaspersky’s data shows that in 2021 close to 32,700 unique global...
Read moreThe Coalition Against Stalkerware welcomes the inclusion of cyberstalking and cyber-harassment in the new European Commission’s proposal on combating violence against women and domestic violence
On International Women’s Day (8 March 2022) the European Commission published a proposal for a directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence. The proposal aims to ensure a minimum level of protection across the EU against suc...
Read moreCoalition Against Stalkerware celebrates two years of work to keep technology safe for all
To mark the second anniversary, the international alliance takes a look back on its achievements while seeing still a lot of challenges ahead. Two years ago, in November 2019, the Coalition Against Stalkerware was founded by 10 organizations. Tod...
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