Documents reveal NSA and its allies planned to hijack Google and Samsung app stores to infect smartphones with spyware. The operation was launched by the Network Tradecraft Advancement Team, including spy agents from each of the countries in the so-called Five Eyes intelligence alliance. The man-in-the-middle attack is a technique used by cyber criminals to intercept the communication and steal sensitive data passing through it. The spy agencies used its powerful Internet spying tool “XKeyScore” to identify targets by matching their targets’ smartphones to their online activities.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/05/hacking-google-play-store.html