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interrogating him about how he and his wife had helped supply aid to people in Ukraine suffering from the war\u2019s devastation. <\/p>\n<p>The police beat him and his spouse badly enough that he has lost hearing in his right ear. As of Wednesday in an interview with CyberScoop, he added that he was still suffering from insomnia and head and neck pain, the latter from his subsequent two-week imprisonment. They stationed him near a cold window without clothes, made him sing the national anthem of the Russian Republic, forced him to sit and stand repeatedly, and threatened to kill him and his wife.<\/p>\n<p>While in a detention center after signing a statement to accept a 15-day administrative detention penalty, two people in black suits offered him a deal: Spy on a friend about his contacts with the Ukrainian special services or spend 20 years in prison. Parubets agreed, hoping to buy his spouse and himself some time to get away.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He then received an odd notification on his phone, which made him \u2014 an IT specialist and programmer \u2014 suspicious. He believed that when the authorities had taken his device and forced him to give up the credentials, they loaded it with spyware before returning it to him at the Lubyanka building, the headquarters of the Russian Federal Security Service, more commonly known as the FSB.<\/p>\n<p>That brought on another wave of \u201creal fear,\u201d he said. \u201cYou understand that every step is under control,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd you know if you try to do something with your phone, they know about that immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He exported data from his device and left his phone in Moscow as he escaped with his wife, fearing even at the border that he might be stopped before boarding a plane. He then contacted the Russian exile-led human rights group First Department with the exported information. Collaborating with the University of Toronto\u2019s Citizen Lab, they confirmed his suspicions: His phone had indeed been infected with spyware.<\/p>\n<p>Citizen Lab on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenlab.ca\/2024\/12\/device-confiscated-by-russian-authorities-returned-with-monokle-type-spyware-installed\/\">released a report<\/a> on Parubets\u2019 story and that infection. It\u2019s a lesson, they say, about how having one\u2019s device confiscated \u2014 and especially when being compelled to hand over passcodes \u2014 can be another vector for spyware infection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople spend a lot of time thinking about zero-click exploits and zero-day attacks, but they tend to forget that somebody with physical access to your phone who can compel you to unlock it with violence, or even the threat of violence, is just as much of a threat, if not more so,\u201d said Cooper Quintin, a research fellow at Citizen Lab and co-author of the report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s something that poses a threat to nearly anyone, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want people to be aware of this attack vector, to not ignore the attack vector of the police,\u201d Quintin said. \u201cThere\u2019s a similar attack vector of an abusive partner who has your phone and can compel you to unlock it, which people in abusive relationships have been aware of for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Citizen Lab analysis found that the phone was likely infected with a trojanized application called Cube Call Recorder, a genuine app that had been implanted with malicious functionalities. It was similar to the Monokle spyware family, first <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/gru-android-surveillance-lookout\/\">identified by Lookout Mobile Security<\/a> in 2019 and attributed to a Russian government contractor. Citizen Lab determined that it could access Parubets\u2019 location data, record video with the phone camera and audio of phone calls \u2014 even answering phone calls on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Quintin said it\u2019s a \u201cfull-featured\u201d malware, with \u201csome esoteric features,\u201d like placing phone calls on one\u2019s behalf and live-streaming audio from one\u2019s phone. The investigation also found hints in the code that there\u2019s an iOS version of the Android malware, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia routinely denies any cyber malfeasance. The BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c8el72ldpr4o\">reported in September<\/a> that the Kremlin had not yet commented publicly on United Nations allegations of rising human rights abuses since the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The lesson others can take from Parubets\u2019 story, according to Quintin, is \u201cas far as what people should do if your phone is seized by government agents and unlocked, you should immediately distrust that phone in the future,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if you can find somebody to take a look at it \u2014 yeah, find a security professional to take a look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite his fear upon discovering the apparent spyware, Parubets said he felt a sense of pride to have figured out what was happening. He\u2019s not sure why the spyware was implanted on his phone; perhaps the authorities didn\u2019t realize he was a programmer who would notice something unusual about a simple notification like \u201cArm cortex vx3 synchronization.\u201d He also alternatively suggested that the process of loading malware onto a captive\u2019s phone is just standard in Russia under such circumstances.Either way he suspects they wanted to make sure that if he did decide to escape, the spyware-infected phone could have been used to monitor him.<\/p>\n<p>Parubets isn\u2019t sure the unnamed country where he\u2019s currently located is all that safe, because Russia has proven its ability to reach targets across the border. But he still wanted to speak out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s very important that all people know the truth,\u201d he said. \u201cAll people should know about the criminals of the Russian regime, with Russia trying to threaten people, to torture people, to try to spy on them, install viruses on their phone. \u2026 Maybe one day it will help to change something in Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"7.7216117216117\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/how-a-russian-mans-harrowing-tale-shows-the-physical-dangers-of-spyware-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Tim Starks\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-card__details\" readability=\"10.901098901099\">\n<h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by Tim Starks<\/h4>\n<p> Tim Starks is senior reporter at CyberScoop. 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