{"id":996943,"date":"2026-03-07T11:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996943"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:17:12","slug":"research-company-claims-spyware-posing-as-israels-red-alert-android-app-targeting-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/07\/research-company-claims-spyware-posing-as-israels-red-alert-android-app-targeting-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Research company claims spyware posing as Israel&#8217;s Red Alert Android app targeting users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s most trusted emergency tools to secretly steal personal data from their phones.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}