Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft used a new Android spyware dubbed KoSpy to target Korean and English-speaking users. Lookout researchers attributed the spyware to the ScarCruft group with medium confidence. The spyware uses a unique IT for each victim that is calculated through a hardware fingerprint.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The threat actors used by spyware to take over the target systems, spy on the victims, and exfiltrate data. The APT32 group has been active since at least 2012, it has targeted organizations across multiple industries and foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. ” reads the post published by Amnesty International. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Stealth Falcon is a nation-state actor active since at least 2012, the group targeted political activists and journalists in the Middle East in past campaigns. In 2016, researchers from the non-profit organization CitizenLab published a report that describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried out by the Stealth Falcon.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

Asruex first appeared in the threat landscape 2015, researchers linked it to the spyware used by the DarkHotel APT group. CVE-2012-0158 is a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that affected Microsoft Office. . ” reads the report published by Trend Micro. . ” reads the report published by Trend Micro.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 23, 2021

a worm discovered by Microsoft in 2012. Paul Moore, an information security consultant, says that this worm is a serious threat to any PC or network. This malware strain works by installing spyware, used to gather information about browsing habits and personal data.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Stealth Falcon is a nation-state actor active since at least 2012, the group targeted political activists and journalists in the Middle East in past campaigns. In 2016, researchers from non-profit organization CitizenLab published a report that describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried by the Stealth Falcon.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Amnesty claims that 2 Morocco rights advocates were targeted by NSO Group spyware. Ops, popular iTerm2 macOS Terminal App is affected by a critical RCE since 2012. SAP October 2019 Security Patch Day fixes 2 critical flaws. Attor malware was developed by one of the most sophisticated espionage groups.

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