Researchers Uncover Spying Tool Used by Governments to Hijack all Types of Smartphones

Purchasing malware to victimize people is illegal by laws but if the same thing any government official do, then its not!! Yes, the police forces around the World are following the footsteps of U.S. National Security Agency NSA and FBI. Researchers from the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Globa...

Blackshades RAT Takedown Leads to 90 Arrests

More than 90 arrests have been made in connection with development and sales of a remote access Trojan used worldwide to steal data and spy on victims, including Syrian dissidents. The FBI and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office yesterday announced the takedown of the Blackshades operation...

Hacking Team sold Spyware to 21 Countries; Targeting Journalists and Human Right Activists

Spying on the world by injecting sophisticated backdoors in software, systems, and mobile phones, leads to violation of the Privacy and Security of every individual. Yes, we are talking about Surveillance, but this time not about NSA. Instead, Countries including some with poor human-rights recor...

Ron Deibert on Cyber Espionage, Surveillance and Black Code

Dennis Fisher talks with Ron Deibert of the University of Toronto and Citizen Lab about his group’s research into cyber espionage campaigns, the surveillance landscape and his recent book, Black Code...

Surveillance Backdoors 'Contribute to Insecurity', Report Says

The existing state of affairs in which government agencies and intelligence services work to insert backdoors into various hardware, software and networks is not only a problem in terms of civil rights but also represents a serious security risk to most users and the Internet itself, a recent...

Governments Using FinFisher Disguised as Firefox to Spy

Oppressive governments have not been shy about using surveillance software to monitor dissidents’ activity. Like cybercriminals, these governments have been accused of using any means at their disposal to implant the spyware on computers. One tactic, uncovered by Citizen Lab, Munk School of Globa...

Keylogging Version of Anti-Censorship Software Simurgh Found

Citizen Lab found a compromised version of an anti-censorship tool that’s popular in Iran and Syria circulating with a backdoor installed. The software, Simurgh, is described by Citizen Lab as a stand-alone proxy software for Microsoft Windows users. It was used predominantly by Iranians in the...

Syrian Hackers Deface AnonPlus - Anonymous Social Network

Syrian Hackers Deface AnonPlus - Anonymous Social Network After the hacking gang Anonymous took credit for defacing Syria's Ministry of Defense website, a Syrian group retaliated on Monday by posting gruesome photos on Anonymous embryonic social network. The defacement of AnonPlus...