Google detects Predator spyware targeting Android phone users

It is not even a year since the Pegasus spyware scandal made headlines around the world. Several government agencies had hired Israeli company NSO Group for spyware to track journalists, human rights activists, and political rivals.

Now, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) during their routine screening of zero-day threats online, has detected another spyware Predator on Android mobile phones.

[Note: Zero-day vulnerability is a computer/mobile software loophole wherein a solution is yet to be found. If left unattended, hackers can exploit it to modify programs, steal data from PCs, mobiles, or a network or track people]