Adam Levin

MAY 15, 2019

WhatsApp disclosed a major security vulnerability that allowed hackers to remotely install spyware on mobile devices. The spyware deployed has been traced back to NSO Group, an Israeli cyber company alleged to have enabled Middle East governments to surveil its citizens. NSO Group has denied involvement.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2024

The change marks a direct call-out of companies like NSO Group that develop sophisticated commercial surveillance tools like Pegasus, which have been abused by authoritarian regimes to pull off "individually targeted attacks of such exceptional cost and complexity." Just last month, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Chinese law enforcement uses the mobile surveillance tool EagleMsgSpy to gather data from Android devices, as detailed by Lookout. Researchers at the Lookout Threat Lab discovered a surveillance tool, dubbed EagleMsgSpy, used by Chinese law enforcement to spy on mobile devices. The IP address 202.107.80[.]34

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

T-Mobile reported recent infiltration attempts but pointed out that threat actors had no access to its systems and no sensitive data was compromised. T-Mobile detected recent infiltration attempts but confirmed no unauthorized system access occurred, and no sensitive data was compromised. This is not the case at T-Mobile.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, accusing it of using a flaw in its messaging service to conduct cyberespionage on journalists and activists. WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. ” reads the lawsuit.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

Experts uncovered an enterprise-grade surveillance malware dubbed Hermit used to target individuals in Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy since 2019. Lookout Threat Lab researchers uncovered enterprise-grade Android surveillance spyware, named Hermit, used by the government of Kazakhstan to track individuals within the country.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2022

According to a report published by Reuters, an Israeli surveillance software was used to spy on senior officials in the European Commission. ” NSO sent a statement to Reuters to exclude the involvement of its surveillance tools in the attacks reported by the agency. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Intellexa alliance has been using a range of tools for intercepting and subverting mobile and Wi-Fi technologies to deploy its surveillance tools, according to an investigation by Amnesty International and others.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Researchers at Check Point discovered that Egypt ‘ government has been spying citizens in a sophisticated surveillance program. Researchers at Check Point discovered that the Egyptian government has been spying on activists and opponents as part of a sophisticated surveillance program. SecurityAffairs – Egypt, surveillance).

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

It is noted that Twitter’s decision to move away from Mitto AG came after allegations that its co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Ilja Gorelik, sold access to Mitto’s networks to surveillance technology firms. The post Twitter cans 2FA service provider over surveillance claims appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

At least five members of civil society worldwide have been targeted with spyware and exploits developed by surveillance firm QuaDream. Citizen Lab researchers reported that at least five civil society members were victims of spyware and exploits developed by the Israeli surveillance firm QuaDream. ” concludes Citizen Lab.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Researchers warn of previously undetected surveillance spyware, named NoviSpy, that was found infecting a Serbian journalist’s phone. Then he requested help from Amnesty Internationals Security Lab fearing to be the target of surveillance software like other journalists in Serbia. ” reads the report published by Amnesty.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Surrounded by the invisible hum of electromagnetic energy, we’ve harnessed its power to fuel our technological marvels for decades. Link to identities Over the past decade, mobile data traffic has surged an astonishing 4,000-fold , while an additional 400 million users have joined the digital realm over the past 15 years.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

An ad for RedTorch’s “Cheetah” counter-surveillance tech. whose LinkedIn profile says is now chief technology officer at RedTorch. The Guy Fawkes mask/Anonymous threat featured prominently and often on RedTorch’s website. White is RedTorch’s co-founder, “Mr.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Russian zero-day broker is willing to pay $20 million for zero-day exploits for iPhones and Android mobile devices. The Russian zero-day broker firm Operation Zero is increasing payouts for top-tier mobile exploits. Due to high demand on the market, we're increasing payouts for top-tier mobile exploits.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Bosch, known more for its line of refrigerators, ovens, and dishwashers, also develops and sells an entire suite of surveillance cameras. In 2018, the organization Big Brother Watch found that the facial recognition technology rolled out by the UK’s Metropolitan Police at the Notting Hill carnival registered a mismatch 98 percent of the time.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Apple warns that the mobile devices of at least nine US Department of State employees were compromised with NSO Group ‘s Pegasus spyware. officials through NSO technology.” NSO Group added that once the surveillance spyware is sold to a customer it is not able to know who will be the targets of the customer.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 23, 2020

THIS WEEK’S TOPICS: Health-justified Video Surveillance, FDA Emergency Approval of a C19 Test, Israel Mobile Monitoring, Amazon Essentials, Pandemic Drone Monitoring, Retasking Factories, Rich People Ventilators, Technology News, Human News, Ideas Trends & Analysis, Discovery, Recommendations, and the Weekly Aphorism….

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

that has been tracking down individuals engaged in unauthorized “SIM swaps” — a complex form of mobile phone fraud that is often used to steal large amounts of cryptocurrencies and other items of value from victims. In early July 2018, Ferri was traveling in Europe when he discovered his T-Mobile phone no longer had service.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

Pegasus Project investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware. Pegasus Project is the name of a large-scale investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets that revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2020

The legal dispute between Facebook and NSO group continues even after the Israeli surveillance firm filed a motion to dismiss the case earlier this month. The surveillance implant used by the NSO group used an exploit for a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , in the WhatsApp VoIP feature.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

An employee at Amnesty International has been targeted with Israeli surveillance malware, the news was revealed by the human rights group. Amnesty International revealed that one of its employees was targeted with a surveillance malware developed by an Israeli firm. ” reads the report published Amnesty International.

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SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

Unfortunately, we were unable to obtain the underlying samples and can therefore only assume that these are malicious implants targeted at mobile users, developed and leveraged by the threat actor. com/ddd/classes.dex. hxxp://updatei[.]com/hr.apk. com/hr.apk.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 7, 2024

Predator can turn infected smartphones into surveillance devices. Nelson said: “Today’s actions represent a tangible step forward in discouraging the misuse of commercial surveillance tools, which increasingly present a security risk to the United States and our citizens.” You can then uninstall the app.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

This story is about how crooks increasingly are abusing third-party financial aggregation services like Mint , Plaid , Yodlee , YNAB and others to surveil and drain consumer accounts online. Alex Holden is founder and chief technology officer of Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based security consultancy.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 16, 2018

The New York Times is reporting about a company called Securus Technologies that gives police the ability to track cell phone locations without a warrant: The service can find the whereabouts of almost any cellphone in the country within seconds. Another article. Boing Boing post.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The attackers used an exploit chain named Kismet that was part of the arsenal of the controversial Pegasus spyware that is sold by the surveillance firm NSO Group. ” The KISMET exploit chain doesn’t work against iOS 14 and above because the new mobile iOS implements additional security protections.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

The flaw could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted SRTCP packets to the targeted mobile device. The bad news is that experts are aware of attacks exploiting the WhatsApp zero-day to deliver surveillance software.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Proton Technologies announced this week that it has made available the source code of its popular ProtonMail iOS App. The Proton Technologies firm continues to propose initiatives aimed at ensuring the transparency of its ProtonMail applications, this week it announced the availability of the source code of its popular ProtonMail iOS App.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 8, 2021

China is once again in the news for misusing the technology of Artificial Intelligence. Privacy advocates across the world say that such mass surveillance programs do more bad than good as they make the populace get a feeling that their government never trusts them.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 29, 2020

Apple and Google are partnering up to bring technology to bear on COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. Apple and Google are partnering up to bring technology to bear on COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. In general, many companies and government agencies do not have great security. One or the other seems certain to unfold.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Researchers at Lookout discovered a new mobile spyware dubbed Monokle that was developed by a Russian defense contractor. Experts at Lookout discovered a new Android mobile spyware in the wild, dubbed Monokle, that was developed by a Russian defense contractor named Special Technology Centre Ltd. ( Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Law enforcement and intelligence worldwide are buying technologies that exploit weaknesses in vehicle systems. Recently security the security expert researcher Sam Curry warned of vulnerabilities in mobile apps that exposed Hyundai and Genesis car models after 2012 to remote attacks. ” Forbes reports.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2022

This week a Hensholdt spokesperson confirmed the security breach to BleepingComputer explaining that a small number of mobile devices in its UK subsidiary has been affected. Hensoldt AG focuses on sensor technologies for protection and surveillance missions in the defence, security and aerospace sectors.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

In October 2019, security experts at Amnesty International’s Security Lab have uncovered targeted attacks against Moroccan human rights defenders Maati Monjib and Abdessadak El Bouchattaoui that employed NSO Group surveillance tools. In both Omar and Maati’s attacks all injections happened while using their LTE/4G mobile connection.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Apple, which for years has loudly touted the security of its iPhones, is coming under pressure to work more closely with other device makers to push back against technology like Pegasus. Anyone and everyone is at risk, and even technology giants like Apple are ill-equipped to deal with the massive scale of surveillance at hand.”.

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