Apple Lockdown Mode helps protect users from spyware

Apple has announced a new feature of iOS 16 called Lockdown Mode. This new feature is designed to provide a safer environment on iOS for people at high risk of what Apple refers to as "mercenary spyware." This includes people like journalists and human rights advocates, who are often targeted by...

Facebook Bans Spy-for-Hire Firms for Targeting 50K People

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has kicked six alleged spy-for-hire “cyber-mercenaries” to the curb, along with a mysterious Chinese law-enforcement supplier. It accused the entities of collectively targeting about 50,000 people for surveillance. In a report PDF entitled “Threat Report on the...

Facebook Bans 7 'Cyber Mercenary' Companies for Spying on 50,000 Users

Meta Platforms on Thursday revealed it took steps to deplatform seven cyber mercenaries that it said carried out "indiscriminate" targeting of journalists, dissidents, critics of authoritarian regimes, families of opposition, and human rights activists located in over 100 countries, amid mounting...

Cyber-Mercenary Group Void Balaur Attacks High-Profile Targets for Cash

Russian-language group Void Balaur, also tracked under the name Rockethack, has been identified as a prolific cyber-mercenary group, available for hire to break into the email and social-media accounts of high-profile, high-stakes targets around the world. After monitoring Void Balaur for more th...

Researchers Uncover Hacker-for-Hire Group That's Active Since 2015

A new cyber mercenary hacker-for-hire group dubbed "Void Balaur" has been linked to a string of cyberespionage and data theft activities targeting thousands of entities as well as human rights activists, politicians, and government officials around the world at least since 2015 for financial gain...

Experts Uncover Malware Attacks Targeting Corporate Networks in Latin America

Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday took the wraps off a new, ongoing espionage campaign targeting corporate networks in Spanish-speaking countries, specifically Venezuela, to spy on its victims. Dubbed "Bandidos" by ESET owing to the use of an upgraded variant of Bandook malware, the primary...

What did DeathStalker hide between two ferns?

DeathStalker is a threat actor thats been active since at least 2012, and we exposed most of their past activities in a previous article, as well as during a GREAT Ideas conference in August 2020. The actor drew our attention in 2018 because of distinctive attack characteristics that didnt fit in...

mercenary-core (>=2.19.0, <=2.40.1) potentially affected by CVE-2018-1000160 via @risingstack/protect (>=1.0.0, <=1.1.0)

@risingstack/protect NPM version =1.0.0, =2.19.0, =2.40.1 Source cves: CVE-2018-1000160 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-VPCH-RXW3-FGX8...

Mercenary Linux

Mercenary-Linux is a “new-era” lightweight distribution of mostly Dockerized tools built for field expedient hunting, forensics, and malware analysis. This problem birthed MHF Mercenary Hunt Framework which allows the hunt team to easily perform hunt operations within a framework that aggregates...

Mercenary Inc. - Exported ContentProvider, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Mercenary Inc. published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...