Research company claims spyware posing as Israel’s Red Alert Android app targeting users

The fight of rockets and missiles between the US-Israel and Iran seems to have turned into a cyber warfare as a cybersecurity research firm has claimed to have uncovered a sophisticated spying campaign targeting Israeli civilians. This technique is said to exploit one of the country’s most trusted emergency tools to secretly steal personal data from their phones.

According to researchers at Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU), this spyware attack is built around a fake version of the Red Alert app, which is a widely used rocket and missile warning application that millions of Israelis rely on for real-time safety notifications during conflict.