“The US National Security Agency (NSA) planned to use smartphone app stores to propogate malware that it would later use to eavesdrop on users.  That is the latest claim from the trove of secret documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  Over the course of several workshops held in Canada and Australia in late 2011 and early 2012, a joint Five Eyes tradecraft team tried to find ways to implant spyware on smartphones by intercepting the transmissions sent when downloading or updating apps, it adds.  The project was integrated with the NSA’s spying system, XKEYSCORE, which searches smartphone and other traffic as it traverses the internet.”

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2409622/nsa-planned-to-use-google-and-samsung-app-stores-to-spread-eavesdropping-malware

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