SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In a groundbreaking investigative report, the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) media network, with technical assistance from Amnesty International's Security Lab, has exposed the shocking extent of the global surveillance crisis and the glaring inadequacies of EU regulation in curbing it. Chairman, Cedric Leighton Associates, LLC.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2021

As the Pegasus malware nuisance is slowly found politically gripping the entire world, companies offering security solutions to mobile users are getting busy in finding out a solution that helps protect against the infection repercussions caused by the Pegasus Malware.

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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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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This development suprises no one who has been paying attention: Researchers now believe AirTags, which are equipped with Bluetooth technology, could be revealing a more widespread problem of tech-enabled tracking. They emit a digital signal that can be detected by devices running Apple’s mobile operating system.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance firm NSO and fears its staff may be targeted by the company with its Pegasus spyware. The name NSO Group made the headlines last week after the disclosure of the WhatsApp flaw exploited by the company to remotely install its surveillance software.

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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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Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2025

Paragon Solutions is an Israeli company which sells high-end surveillance technology primarily to government clients, positioning its products as essential for combating crime and national security. Keep threats off your mobile devices by downloading Malwarebytes for iOS , and Malwarebytes for Android today.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Snowden warns of abuse of surveillance software that also had a role in the murder of the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Officially the sale of surveillance software is limited to authorized governments to support investigation of agencies on criminal organizations and terrorist groups. COUNTRY NEXUS. 2012-2014.

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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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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2025

Not one but several worried parents that tracked their children by using T-Mobile tracking devices suddenly found that they were looking at the location of random other children. T-Mobile sells a small GPS tracker called SyncUP , which can be used to track, among others, the locations of young children who dont have cell phones yet.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, potentially accessing systems for lawful wiretapping and other data. The Salt Typhoon group targeted surveillance systems used by the US government to investigate crimes and threats to national security, including activities carried out by nation-state actors.

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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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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 Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. Cape is a mobile carrier startup claiming to provide a more secure and private service alternative to traditional telecommunications services. They also have appeared to partner with Proton.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Researchers reported that the top-of-the-line Android mobile devices sold in China are shipped with malware. The smartphones analyzed by the r researchers were observed sending data to the device vendor and the Chinese mobile network operators (e.g., EU) Android OS distributions from the same OS developers. .

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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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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

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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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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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Key cybersecurity provisions Securing communications networks Five billion dollars is allocated to help local telecommunications providers replace potentially insecure Chinese technology (e.g., Protecting military mobile devices Standards and policies will be implemented to secure Department of Defense mobile devices from foreign spyware.

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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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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

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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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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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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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 Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. Successful security assessment of our Android app Mullvad Mullvad's Android app has successfully passed the Mobile Application Security Assessment (MASA), conducted by NCC Group.

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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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