A security researcher demonstrated a spyware program at the ShmooCon conference on Sunday that is capable of intercepting and recording text messages, emails, Web traffic and other data sent to and from BlackBerry devices. Tyler Shields, a senior security researcher at Veracode, showed a demonstration of a program called txsBBSPY, which uses no vulnerabilities or exploits to do its work. The application has the ability to access and dump the BlackBerry s contacts, email messages, phone logs and the recording made by the BlackBerry’s microphone. In order to defend against this kind of attack, users could change the application permissions on their BlackBerrys.
Source: https://threatpost.com/blackberry-spyware-can-intercept-texts-email-track-users-location-020710/73503/