Today, researchers from Kaspersky and Citizen Lab published research on a new type of malware designed to give police complete access to a suspect's phone. The tool, dubbed Remote Control System (or RCS), can be implanted physically through a USB or SD card, or remotely through an infected link or network traffic injection. Once the phone is infected, police can use it to monitor a user's location, record ambient audio through the microphone, or even hijack the phone's camera to take spontaneous photographs. Hacking Team is a Milan-based company with more than 50 employees that has made a niche for itself selling surveillance software to police in "several dozen countries" on "six continents." It's still unclear exactly where RCS is currently used, but early indications point to Saudi Arabia, based on the fake "Qatif" news app where the code was initially found.
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