Australia a leader in hacking mobile phones, Snowden document reveals

By Philip Dorling
Updated May 28 2015 - 10:24am, first published May 22 2015 - 9:22am

Australia's electronic espionage agency has exploited weaknesses in a mobile browser used by hundreds of millions worldwide and planned to hack into smartphones through data links to the Google and Samsung app stores, a leaked top secret intelligence document has revealed.

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