SpyBuster for iOS helps detect apps that may threaten your data privacy
The MacPaw team is rolling out the iOS version of the SpyBuster anti-spy app. SpyBuster for iOS scans iPhone for potentially unwanted apps and warns if any is found. This tool tells you exactly why the app is flagged as suspicious and explains how to remove the app from your iPhone and it is up to the user to decide whether or not to take any action.
Why is it important?
- In 2016, Russia passed a law requiring telecommunications service providers to store users’ private data, including the content of voice calls, pictures and text messages, for six months on mobile devices. owner in Russia. It also requires them to retain metadata such as sender and receiver information, sending time and location for 3 years. The Yarovaya law gives the FSB and other Russian law enforcement agencies virtually unlimited access to any user data on Russian servers without a court order. You may want to take action if this law is inconsistent with personal data privacy standards.
- After Russia invaded Ukraine, to ensure the security and privacy of users from cyber threats that may come from Russia and Belarus, MacPaw engineers launched SpyBuster on macOS, as a utility Chrome extension and part of the CleanMyMac X Uninstaller module. From now on, SpyBuster also helps identify and remove unwanted apps on iPhone.
- Our iPhones store some of the most sensitive information about our lives. Imagine if your digital character fell into the wrong hands? Knowing where personal data is going and who has access to it can be critical to digital safety. And since our entire lives can be stored on our iPhones, SpyBuster for iOS becomes a top priority for MacPaw engineers.
SpyBuster so far
SpyBuster does two things — scans your device for installed apps with known connections to Russia or Belarus, and monitors whether data is sent to Russian or Belarusian servers when the app is used use or not.
SpyBuster launches as a macOS tool in March 2022. By June, it’s launching as a Chrome extension to warn users about suspicious website connections and show them on a map.
SpyBuster’s Static Analysis functionality was also added to CleanMyMac X as part of its Uninstaller module.
Reasons to use SpyBuster
The number of cyberattacks has increased dramatically since Russia started the war in Ukraine in February 2022, CNBC reported. Previously, security experts at Microsoft concluded that about 53% of all cyberattacks between July 2020 and June 2021 originated in Russia, according to Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report.
Russia’s attacks have focused on various targets in the US, Ukraine, UK and NATO allies across Europe.
SpyBuster is a prevention tool that helps you detect and terminate web and application connections to servers located in Russia or Belarus.
Our devices store some of the most sensitive information about our lives. Imagine if your digital character fell into the wrong hands? Private messages, documents, banking and finance, projects we work on, contacts, health data, private photos, videos, location and itineraries, logins or browsing history .
Knowing where your personal data is going and who has access to it can be an important factor in your digital safety. And since our entire lives can be stored on our iPhones, SpyBuster for iOS becomes a priority.
To learn more about SpyBuster, read the full MacPaw blog post here.
Download SpyBuster at spybuster.app or install from the App Store.
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About MacPaw
MacPaw is a software company headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine, that develops and distributes software for macOS and iOS. MacPaw is the producer behind CleanMyMac X and Setapp. In 2017, MacPaw acquired The Unarchiver and has been actively supporting the product ever since. Today, MacPaw products have more than 30 million users worldwide. Every fifth Mac on Earth has at least one MacPaw app. The company was founded by Oleksandr Kosovan in 2008. MacPaw is from Ukraine and is proud of it. Supporting and developing Ukraine is an integral part of the company’s culture.
