Killer Mobile Software — the American software developer founded in 2003 who gained fame thanks to popular mobile application of Call Recorder which serves for record of telephone conversations on the smartphone.
2017: Sale of spyware in Russia
In March, 2017 Forbes knew that Killer Mobile sold in Russia the software used for wire tapping and interception of messages of the SMS and correspondences in social networks and messengers.
The edition made own investigation and found out that the spyware of Tracer created by Killer Mobile installed on iPhone and Android device extended the Russian company OpenGSM which is engaged in creation of software for control and protection of mobile phones.
According to the informer of Forbes, in OpenGSM could sell the espionage tool to both normal users, and government structures. The magazine calls this cooperation "the unprecedented espionage transaction" between the Russian and American companies.
According to forecasts of analysts, the volume of the world market of means for interception of telephone conversations and correspondences will grow to $1.3 billion by 2019 with $252 million in the 2014th. Meanwhile, in Forbes counted that offering espionage software of Killer Mobile on the website, the OpenGSM company could earn about $500 thousand revenue a month from which $150 thousand were received by the American side.
Forbes published the screenshot made at the hacker forum "Antichat" on which it is visible how the user with the nickname opengsm looks for partners for joint sale of hacker software.
During the investigation journalists contacted the partner of OpenGSM — Internio company which was engaged in " legally doubtful activity". According to the edition, Interneo helped to distribute the spyware in Chechnya. The proof to that is the website grozny95.net registered by the company on which the code connected with OpenGSM services was placed. The anti-virus expert to whom Forbes refers, claims that the domain was created for the VIP client in the government of Chechnya.[1]
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