Alien And Predator Team Up To Take Over Andriods

A Nightmare Team Up

Intellexa is a company who create commercial spyware, for sale to law enforcement and governments.  They named two of their spyware apps after famous movies, Alien and Predator, which can be installed invisibly on Android and iOS devices.   While it is technically legal for them to sell this spyware to various official bodies, the security community is less than enthused by their existence and spend a fair amount of resources trying to figure out just how this malware functions.  Recently Cisco Talos and The Citizen Lab made some interesting progress in their…