A new top-secret document leaked by Snowden revealed how the NSA and its allies planned to target Android platforms under the project IRRITANT HORN.
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New top-secret documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its allies of the Five Eyes group (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia) planned to hijack Google and Samsung app stores in order to serve spyware on Android devices.
The surveillance operation was organized by members of the Network Tradecraft Advancement Team, composed by experts and cyber spies from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.
The new collection of documents was leaked online by The Intercept in collaboration with journalists at CBC News, the files revealed a joint effort of the intelligence agencies to exploit vulnerabilities in the mobile browsers for the purpose of surveillance .
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