US-CERT (the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team -- the operational arm of the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)) has announced the existence of a Blackberry app called PhoneSnoop which is designed to spy on users.
BlackBerry PhoneSnoop Application Used to Spy on Users
US-CERT is aware of public reports of a new software application called PhoneSnoop. This software allows an attacker to call a user's BlackBerry and listen to personal conversations. In order to install and setup the PhoneSnoop application, attackers must have physical access to the user's device or convince a user to install PhoneSnoop.
US-CERT encourages users to only download BlackBerry applications from trusted sources and to password protect and lock BlackBerry devices.
Brian Krebs excellent blog "Security Fix" has quite an interesting article on the whole PhoneSnoop situation.
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