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Recent events have demonstrated very clearly just how persistent and wide-spread the Pegasus spyware is. The exploit chain based on these vulnerabilities was capable of compromising devices without any interaction from the victim and were reportedly used by the NSO Group to deliver its infamous Pegasus spyware.
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The threat actors behind the campaigns used two Android spyware to spy on the victims and steal sensitive information. APT15 has been active since at least 2010, it conducted cyber espionage campaigns against targets worldwide in several industries, including defense, high tech, energy, government, aerospace, and manufacturing.
Belgian newspaper reported that investigators had found proof that the Belgacom hack was the work of the UK GCHQ intelligence agency. According to Snowden, the UK’s signals intelligence have hacked into the Belgian telco to spy on private communications in transit into its infrastructure. ” wrote The Intercept.
Asruex first appeared in the threat landscape 2015, researchers linked it to the spyware used by the DarkHotel APT group. CVE-2010-2883 is a stack buffer overflow flaw that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code or trigger a denial of service condition. . ” reads the report published by Trend Micro. .
A former member of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations hacking team was sentenced to 66 months in prison because he leaked top-secret online documents related to the US government ban on Kaspersky software. The man pleaded guilty in December 2017 to one count of willful retention of classified national defense information.
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A Hungarian government official confirmed that his government has bought and used the controversial NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. In July, a large-scale investigation, dubbed Pegasus Project , into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware. Pierluigi Paganini.
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