News Summary

• Catwatchful was an Android-specific spyware that presented itself as a child-monitoring app “undetectable” to the user.
• The spyware was designed to stay hidden from the victim’s home screen, and upload the private messages, photos, location data, and more to a web dashboard viewable by the person who planted the app.
• Catwatchful is the latest in a long list of surveillance operations that have experienced a data breach in recent years, in large part due to shoddy coding and poor cybersecurity practices.