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July 30, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>The Lithuanian interior ministry\u2019s migration department has requested the country\u2019s State Security Department to assess possible national security risks posed by Andrej \u0160ymanovi\u010d, a Lithuanian-based Belarusian software developer who is a former son-in-law of Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s close ally Viktar \u0160ejman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the migration department, the request is its response to a recent investigative article by Buro Media<\/em> titled \u201cAgent 00SIM: How Andrej \u0160ymanovi\u010d created a well-known spy service, became related to \u0160ejman by marriage and did business in both Belarus and the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The department has also contacted Lithuania\u2019s National Cyber Security Centre and Criminal Police Bureau to investigate whether the software mentioned in the report can be considered malicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The department says that it will decide on \u0160ymanovi\u010d\u2019s future \u201clegal status\u201d in Lithuania based on feedback from government agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its report, Buro Media<\/em> says that \u0160ymanovi\u010d in 2016 married Volha \u0160ejman, Viktar \u0160ejman\u2019s only daughter. In 2023, \u0160ymanovi\u010d obtained a residence permit in Lithuania, by which time he was already divorced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2011, \u0160ymanovi\u010d created the mSpy application, which \u201callowed users to remotely monitor another person\u2019s phone, tablet or computer and view their messages, location, photos, social media activity, call history and search history.\u201d The developers marketed mSpy as a parental control tool, but it later turned out that only 40 percent of clients used it for that purpose. Moreover, the article noted, data leaks occurred in 2015, 2018, and 2024, initially affecting hundreds of thousands, and later millions, of app users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among \u0160ymanovi\u010d\u2019s other applications, the report mentions eSIM Plus, which \u201cprovides virtual numbers and internet access while travelling, eliminating the need for roaming.\u201d The service excessively acquires access to the user’s location, sends telemetry data to Russia\u2019s Yandex AppMetrica and uses the infrastructure of the Russian company Voximplant for call routing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buro Media<\/em> says that it carried out its investigation in cooperation with Belarusian hacktivist group CyberPartisans, cybersecurity experts at Human Constanta and Resident NGO and the Lithuanian investigative project Siena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Viktar \u0160ejman has been under Western sanctions for more than two decades. The official, often described as Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s \u201cright-hand man,\u201d is suspected of running a death squad that killed regime opponents in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Three months ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced new sanctions against 11 Belarusian entities and 16 nationals, including \u0160ejman. Kyiv identified him as one of the organizers of \u201csanctions-evasion schemes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 30, Pozirk. The Lithuanian interior ministry\u2019s migration department has requested the country\u2019s State Security Department to assess possible national security risks posed by Andrej \u0160ymanovi\u010d, a Lithuanian-based Belarusian software developer who is a former son-in-law of Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s close ally Viktar \u0160ejman. According to the migration department, the request is its response to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":76781,"template":"","rubric":[16,30],"class_list":["post-197863","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nVilnius to probe Lithuanian-based former son-in-law of \u0141uka\u0161enka's ally | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 30, Pozirk. 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