Mobile security
As smartphones are a permanent point of access to the internet (mostly on), they can be compromised as easily as computers with malware. A malware is a computer program that aims to harm the system in which it resides. Trojans, worms and viruses are all considered malware. A Trojan is a program that is on the smartphone and allows external users to connect discreetly. A worm is a program that reproduces on multiple computers across a network. A virus is malicious software designed to spread to other computers by inserting itself into legitimate programs and running programs in parallel. However, it must be said that the malware are far less numerous and important to smartphones as they are to computers.
Government hacking
Nowadays, the most well-known and legitimate form of government hacking is the watering hole operation, which the government takes control of a criminal activity site and continues to operate it in order to distribute the virus to computer to access it. The malware can be installed through a link, in which the user clicks, or secretly, through an access to a certain site. The user is not aware of the virtual virus infection on his machine because the malware partially controls it, only to search for identifying information and send it back to the source.