The ongoing global closures and embargoes confirm the need for a strong global team working efficiently to end stalking software, and global efforts to protect users from stalkerware continue to be strengthened with 11 organizations joining the Alliance Against Stalking program. The list of newly joined organizations under this program includes: Aequitas, its Stalking and Protection Protection Center, Anonyome Labs, AppEsteem, the German Federal Association for Women's Counseling and Women's Emergency Call Centers, Hubertine Auclert Center, Copperhead, Corrata Digital Security, and Union Uganda's Commonwealth, Cyber Peace Online, F-Secure Digital Security, and the Illinois Center for the Protection of Prosecutors.
Since its launch in November 2019, the coalition against stalking software has now 21 partners, and the coalition's founding partners include Avira Digital Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, European Network for Domestic Violence Crime, G DATA Cyber Defense for Digital Security, and Kaspersky , Malwarebytes Security Software, US National Violence Ending Network, NortonLifeLock Digital Security, Operation Safe Escape to Help Domestic Violence Victims, and WEISSER RING to Support Crime Victims.
The coalition seeks to gather the expertise of its partners in the fields of defending digital rights, enhancing digital security, and raising public awareness of this important issue.
And Kaspersky's first malware analyst, Tatyana Shishkova, confirmed the company's continued eagerness to monitor threats from stalking software, noting that "Kaspersky" monitored, last April alone, 8201 of this software installed on portable devices for users around the world, compared to 7736 in April of 2019.