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Google has removed the android app SmeshApp from the Google play store after CNN-IBN published a report on how Pakistani spy agencies used it to snoop on Indian Army.

It is reported that the app was used to get tactical as well as personal information of the army personnel. Almost 200 top officers were targeted through the spyware. The report said that fake facebook profiles were used to honeytrap the officers. First officers were sent the friend request through the fake profiles and then they chatted with them. Then they were prompted to download the SmeshApp.

The app was a spyware in the disguise of a calling and chat app. Once installed on the phone it collected data from the phone and sent it to the server situated in Germany. The service was hosted by a man based out Karachi named Sajid Rana. The information was tracked down by IBN using the Whois service which gives out information of the server based on the URL.

The archived images taken from Google play store suggests that the website mentioned in the privacy policy Smeshapp.com is also hosted by the same person. The website is not accessible at the moment. Apart from displaying the number of call and SMS made the app could even access the content on the phone. Security experts even believe that the location details and photographs might have been compromised.