Israel Bans Sales of Hacking and Surveillance Tools to 65 Countries

Israel's Ministry of Defense has dramatically restricted the number of countries to which cybersecurity firms operating in the nation are allowed to sell offensive hacking and surveillance tools to, cutting off 65 nations from the export list. The revised list, details of which were first reporte...

New Leak Reveals Abuse of Pegasus Spyware to Target Journalists Globally

A sweeping probe into a data leak of more than 50,000 phone numbers has revealed an extensive misuse of Israeli company NSO Group's Pegasus "military-grade spyware" to facilitate human rights violations by surveilling heads of state, activists, journalists, and lawyers around the world. Dubbed th...

Tech Giants Lend WhatsApp Support in Spyware Case Against NSO Group

Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp has received new high-caliber support in its case against Israeli intelligence company NSO Group. The court case aims to hold NSO Group accountable for distributing its Pegasus spyware on the popular WhatsApp messaging service with the intent of planting its spyware o...

CASPER Surveillance Malware Linked to French Government

Last month, cyber security researchers spotted a new strain of french surveillance malware, dubbed "Babar," which revealed that even French Government and its spying agency the General Directorate for External Security DGSE is dedicatedly involved in conducting surveillance operation just like th...

Gauss Malware Detection Tool released by Iranian CERT

Iranian National Computer Emergency Response Team releases a tool for Gauss malware detection. Cyber surveillance virus has been found in the Middle East that can spy on banking transactions and steal login and passwords, according Kaspersky Lab, a leading computer security firm. Gauss primarily...

CrySyS Duqu Detector Open source Toolkit Released

CrySyS Duqu Detector Open source Toolkit Released Two weeks ago Researchers at the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security CrySyS in Hungary confirmed the existence of the zero-day vulnerability in the Windows kernel, according to security researchers tracking the Stuxnet-like...

Windows Kernel Zero Day Vulnerability Found in Duqu Installer

Windows Kernel Zero Day Vulnerability Found in Duqu Installer Duqu malware attack exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows kernel, according to security researchers tracking the Stuxnet-like cyber-surveillance Trojan. The vulnerability has since been reported to Microsoft and Microsoft i...