Published by Mike Fong on May 29, 2019
Earlier this year, speculation about the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s smartphone being hacked by threat actors tied to Saudi Arabia shed light on an important truth -- that hackers at the nation-state level are capable of weaponizing advanced mobile spyware against executives and other corporate targets. But whereas the Bezos story focused on the risks of existing data stolen from a smartphone, less attention has been paid to the risks of data captured by remotely activated cameras and microphones built into an executive’s compromised mobile device.