SparkKitty, SparkCat’s little brother: A new Trojan spy found in the App Store and Google Play

Update 25.06.2025: Apple removed the malicious app from the App Store. In January 2025, we uncovered the SparkCat spyware campaign, which was aimed at gaining access to victims' crypto wallets. The threat actor distributed apps containing a malicious SDK/framework. This component would wait for a...

CVE-2023-2490

Auth. admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Fernando Briano UserAgent-Spy plugin = 1.3.1 versions...

CVE-2005-1097

Rebrand P2P Share Spy 2.2 stores the user password in plaintext in the txtPassword value in the registry, which allows local users to gain privileges...

A week in security (April 7 – April 13)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: The Pall Mall Pact and why it matters Child predators are lurking on dating apps, warns report Your 23andMe genetic data could be bought by China, senator warns WhatsApp for Windows vulnerable to attacks. Update now! Man accused of using keylogger to spy on...

Trump’s Spy Chief Urged to Declassify Details of Secret Surveillance Program

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has long held anti-surveillance views. Now she oversees a key surveillance program she once tried to dismantle...

Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed at 2024 DNC

Data WIRED collected during the 2024 Democratic National Convention strongly suggests the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device that intercepts sensitive data from every phone in its range...

The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President

A successful CIA hack of Venezuela's military payroll system, insider fights for spy agency resources, and messy opposition politics: A WIRED investigation reveals a secret Trump-era attempt to oust autocratic ruler Nicolás Maduro...

MAL-2024-12351 Malicious code in spy-ai (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 d71096c3aa8cb143ba7fab208ab313a240e8f1f9846b17b947a01f729fc1864a Every time the user sends a message to the AI, the user IP, message as well as the response are exfiltrated to a hardcoded telegram channel. This behaviour is...

Malicious code in spy-ai (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 d71096c3aa8cb143ba7fab208ab313a240e8f1f9846b17b947a01f729fc1864a Every time the user sends a message to the AI, the user IP, message as well as the response are exfiltrated to a hardcoded telegram channel. This behaviour is...

Watch How a Hacker’s Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop’s Keystrokes

Hacker Samy Kamkar is debuting his own open source version of a laser microphone—a spy tool that can invisibly pick up the sounds inside your home through a window, and even the text you’re typing...

CVE-2024-5602

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability due to a missing bounds check in the NI I/O Trace Tool may result in arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation requires an attacker to provide a user with a specially crafted nitrace file. The NI I/O Trace tool is installed as part of the NI...

CVE-2024-5602 Stack-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in NI I/O Trace Tool

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability due to a missing bounds check in the NI I/O Trace Tool may result in arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation requires an attacker to provide a user with a specially crafted nitrace file. The NI I/O Trace tool is installed as part of the NI...

CVE-2024-5602

Summary of CVE-2024-5602 (NI I/O Trace Tool) : A stack-based buffer overflow arises from a missing bounds check in NI I/O Trace Tool (part of NI System Configuration utilities, formerly NI Spy). The vulnerability can lead to arbitrary code execution and requires a user to open a specially crafted...

A Catalog of Hazardous AV Sites – A Tale of Malware Hosting

A Catalog of Hazardous AV Sites – A Tale of Malware Hosting By Trellix · May 23, 2024 This blog was written by Gurumoorthi Ramanathan Executive summary In mid-April 2024, Trellix Advanced Research Center team members observed multiple fake AV sites hosting highly sophisticated malicious files suc...

Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil

An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for “US persons” in a controversial spy program's database that investigators have repeatedly misused...

The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers

Over the weekend, President Joe Biden signed legislation not only reauthorizing a major FISA spy program but expanding it in ways that could have major implications for privacy rights in the US...

US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’

A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government’s behalf, including on fellow Americans...

House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program

The US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend the Section 702 spy program. It passed without an amendment that would have required the FBI to obtain a warrant to access Americans’ information...

Trump Loyalists Kill Vote on US Wiretap Program

An attempt to reauthorize Section 702, the so-called crown jewel of US spy powers, failed for a third time in the House of Representatives after former president Donald Trump criticized the law...

spy-rus.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3909506

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...