Us Drug Enforcement Agency Buying Spyware From An Italian Company
The software, known as Remote Control System or “RCS,” is capable of hijacking phone calls, texts, and social media messages, and can secretly switch on a user’s webcam and microphone as well as collect passwords. Government records show the agency paying $2.4 million for a RCS that could be embedded in a suspect’s phone. Once the phone is infected, the spyware can record texts, emails, passwords, and even tap nearby conversations through the onboard microphone....