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NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones

22 May 2015

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"The National Security Agency and its closest allies planned to hijack data links to Google and Samsung app stores to infect smartphones with spyware, a top-secret document reveals.

The surveillance project was launched by a joint electronic eavesdropping unit called the Network Tradecraft Advancement Team, which includes spies from each of the countries in the “Five Eyes” alliance — the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia."

See the article: NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones (Intercept, link)

And see: Document from Five Eyes (4MB, pdf)

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