Veracode’s TXSBBspy Spyware Proof-of-Concept for BlackBerry

February 9th, 2010 admin

TXSBBSpy Demo from Veracode on Vimeo . Tyler Shields, senior researcher at Veracode Research Lab developed a proof-of-concept spyware package that demonstrates how simple it is to retrieve private data from a BlackBerry. The above video demonstrates the spyware package, which he calls TXSBBspy, and uses it to take some very confidential information. In the demonstration, he uses some basic, publicly available functions to remotely dump all email and SMS messages, send the contents via e-mail, and conduct real-time monitoring of phone messages. He…


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