A man takes a selfie in front of the newly restored Crusader Beaufort castle in Arnoun village, south Lebanon January 18, 2015. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho/Files
FRANKFURT: Lebanon's intelligence service may have turned the smartphones of thousands of targeted individuals into cyber-spying machines in one of the first known examples of large-scale state hacking of phones rather than computers, researchers say.
Lebanon's General Directorate of General Security (GDGS) has run more than 10 campaigns since at least 2012 aimed mainly at Android phone users in at least 21 countries, according to a report by mobile security firm Lookout and digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
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