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pcTattletale founder pleads guilty as US cracks down on stalkerware

ID: 7bb5677a-deb5-5433-a82d-df45da62bcbb

STIX ID: report--7bb5677a-deb5-5433-a82d-df45da62bcbb

Feed Name: Malwarebytes Blog

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2026-01-09

Date Updated: 2026-04-28

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Malwarebytes reports that pcTattletale founder Bryan Fleming pleaded guilty to hacking and illegally selling stalkerware; researchers earlier discovered unsecured screenshot databases and API/backend vulnerabilities that exposed victim and customer data (including shared AWS credentials), leading to an AWS-enforced infrastructure shutdown and the product being abandoned while law enforcement continues prosecution.

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