The secrets services, including the US National Security Agency (NSA), planned to install spyware on millions of Android smartphones.
The poject was first published on Wednesday by CBC news in collaboration with Intercept, and as reported by news agencies aimed at exploiting the smartphones operating system to install surveillance software.
The project was called "Irritant Horn" by NSA, and was designed for hack and hijack connections that exist in popular application stores to direct users to spyware.
These spyware could collect data and send them to NSA without knowing what the victim was.
Of course this is not the first time that smartphones have become a target of mass surveillance by intelligence services.
The British agency GCHQ, developed tools targeting iPhone and Android devices.
The tools, cutely named after children's TV cartoon characters The Smurfs, allowed the service to determine the location of a devices with extreme precision, activate disabled devices and secretly activate the microphone without the owner knowing.