In today’s interconnected world, technology plays a pivotal role in our personal relationships, enhancing communication and bridging distances. Yet, this same technology can be exploited to harm, giving rise to an alarming issue: technology-enable...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Note: We have since updated information on tinycheck here:https://stopstalkerware.org/2025/05/19/spyguard-vs-stalkerware-detecting-digital-abuse-safely-and-effectively/ In 2019, as a response to the growing threat of stalkerware, researchers from...

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...