Predator spyware vendor banned in US

The US Treasury Department has sanctioned Predator spyware vendor Intellexa Consortium, and banned the company from doing business in the US. Predator can turn infected smartphones into surveillance devices. Intellexa is based in Greece but the Treasury Department imposed the sanctions because of...

TheTruthSpy stalkerware, still insecure, still leaking data

In 2022, we published an article about how photographs of children taken by a stalkerware-type app were found exposed on the internet because of poor cybersecurity practices by the app vendor. The stalkerware-type app involved, TheTruthSpy, has shown once again that the way in which it handles...

A week in security (January 29 – February 4)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: CISA: Disconnect vulnerable Ivanti products TODAY FBI removes malware from hundreds of routers across the US "You have blood on your hands." Senate Committee calls for action by social media giants to protect children online Tax season is here, so are scammers Moth...

In conversation: Bruce Schneier on AI-powered mass spying

For decades, governments and companies have surveilled the conversations, movements, and behavior of the public. And then the internet came along and made that a whole lot easier. Today, search engines collect our queries, browsers collect our device information, smartphones collect out locations...

Bruce Schneier predicts a future of AI-powered mass spying: Lock and Code S05E03

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… If the internet helped create the era of mass surveillance, then artificial intelligence will bring about an era of mass spying. That’s the latest prediction from noted cryptographer and computer security professional Bruce Schneier, who, in December, share...

CVE-2023-48419

An attacker in the wifi vicinity of a target Google Home can spy on the victim, resulting in Elevation of Privilege...

CVE-2023-48419 An attacker in the wifi vicinity of a target Google Home can spy on the victim, resulting in EoP

An attacker in the wifi vicinity of a target Google Home can spy on the victim, resulting in Elevation of Privilege...

CVE-2023-48419 An attacker in the wifi vicinity of a target Google Home can spy on the victim, resulting in EoP

An attacker in the wifi vicinity of a target Google Home can spy on the victim, resulting in Elevation of Privilege...

PT-2024-13612 · Google · Google Home

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Google Home affected versions not specified Description: An attacker in the wifi vicinity of a target Google Home can spy on the victim, resulting in Elevation of Privilege. Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newe...

US Privacy Groups Urge Senate Not to Ram Through NSA Spying Powers

An effort to reauthorize a controversial US surveillance program by attaching it to a must-pass spending bill has civil liberties advocates calling foul...

Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 Seeks to End Warrantless Police and FBI Spying

The Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 pulls from past privacy bills to overhaul how police and the feds access Americans’ data and communications...

Canada Bans WeChat and Kaspersky Due to Spying Concerns

By Waqas The fate of WeChat and Kaspersky apps on civilian devices remains uncertain. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Canada Bans WeChat and Kaspersky Due to Spying Concerns...

AI sneak attacks, location spying, and definitely not malware, or, what one teenager fears online: Lock and Code S04E21

This week on the Lock and Code podcast... What are you most worried about online? And what are you doing to stay safe? Depending on who you are, those could be very different answers, but for teenagers and members of Generation Z, the internet isn't so scary because of traditional threats like...

French Police Will Be Able to Spy on People through Their Cell Phones

The French police are getting new surveillance powers: French police should be able to spy on suspects by remotely activating the camera, microphone and GPS of their phones and other devices, lawmakers agreed late on Wednesday, July 5. … Covering laptops, cars and other connected objects as well ...

Russia’s Notorious Troll Farm Disbands

Plus: A French bill would allow spying via phone cameras, ATM skimmers target welfare families, and Japan’s largest cargo port gets hit with ransomware...

The US Is Spying on the UN Secretary General

The Washington Post is reporting that the US is spying on the UN Secretary General. The reports on Guterres appear to contain the secretary generals personal conversations with aides regarding diplomatic encounters. They indicate that the United States relied on spying powers granted under the...

Update Your iPhone Right Now to Fix 2 Apple Zero Days

Plus: Discord has a child predator problem, fears rise of China spying from Cuba, and hackers try to blackmail Reddit...

Docs Show FBI Pressures Cops to Keep Phone Surveillance Secrets

Newly released documents highlight the bureau's continued secrecy around cell-site simulators—spying tech that everyone already assumes exists...

Amazon's Ring cameras were used to spy on customers

Every single Amazon Ring employee was able to access every single customer video, even when it wasn't necessary for their jobs. Not only that, but the employees--along with workers from a third-party contractor in Ukraine--could also download any of those videos and then save and share them as th...

MAL-2023-5350 Malicious code in py-minenvidia (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 76ea3e81cf5d4996c478ca602f8c9379e7d68bbaed407952cf0b12c1e15dd99e EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...