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The growth of commercial spyware based intelligence providers without legal or ethical supervision
Attackers have long used commercial products developed by legitimate companies to compromise targeted devices. These products are known as commercial spyware. Commercial spyware operations mainly target mobile platforms with zero- or one-click zero-day exploits to deliver spyware. This threat...
Debunking misinformation about Operaβs browsers
Privacy, Security Debunking misinformation about Operaβs browsers Share July 6th, 2023 At Opera, we take the privacy and security of our users very seriously. As a European company, we have to be compliant with the GDPR β one of the strongest, if not the strongest, data protection frameworks in t...
US Supreme Court Hands Cyberstalkers a First Amendment Victory
Plus: Hackers knock out Russian military satellite communications, a spyware maker gets breached, and the SEC targets a victim company's CISO...
Spyware app LetMeSpy hacked, tracked user data posted online
Stalkerware-type app LetMeSpy says it has been hacked, with the attacker taking user data with it. From the message posted to the login screen on the LetMeSpy website: On June 21, 2023, a security incident occurred involving obtaining unauthorized access to the data of website users. As a result ...
Stalkerware Vendor Hacked
The stalkerware company LetMeSpy has been hacked: TechCrunch reviewed the leaked data, which included years of victims call logs and text messages dating back to 2013. The database we reviewed contained current records on at least 13,000 compromised devices, though some of the devices shared litt...
U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Adds 6 Flaws to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a batch of six flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. This comprises three vulnerabilities that Apple patched this week CVE-2023-32434, CVE-2023-32435, and CVE-2023-32439...
U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Adds 6 Flaws to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a batch of six flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. This comprises three vulnerabilities that Apple patched this week CVE-2023-32434, CVE-2023-32435, and CVE-2023-32439...
Zero-Day Alert: Apple Releases Patches for Actively Exploited Flaws in iOS, macOS, and Safari
Apple on Wednesday released a slew of updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari browser to address a set of flaws it said were actively exploited in the wild. This includes a pair of zero-days that have been weaponized in a mobile surveillance campaign called Operation Triangulation tha...
New Report Exposes Operation Triangulation's Spyware Implant Targeting iOS Devices
More details have emerged about the spyware implant that's delivered to iOS devices as part of a campaign called Operation Triangulation. Kaspersky, which discovered the operation after becoming one of the targets at the start of the year, said the malware has a lifespan of 30 days, after which i...
New Report Exposes Operation Triangulation's Spyware Implant Targeting iOS Devices
More details have emerged about the spyware implant that's delivered to iOS devices as part of a campaign called Operation Triangulation. Kaspersky, which discovered the operation after becoming one of the targets at the start of the year, said the malware has a lifespan of 30 days, after which i...
Dissecting TriangleDB, a Triangulation spyware implant
Over the years, there have been multiple cases when iOS devices were infected with targeted spyware such as Pegasus, Predator, Reign and others. Often, the process of infecting a device involves launching a chain of different exploits, e.g. for escaping the iMessage sandbox while processing a...
Rogue Android Apps Target Pakistani Individuals in Sophisticated Espionage Campaign
Individuals in the Pakistan region have been targeted using two rogue Android apps available on the Google Play Store as part of a new targeted campaign. Cybersecurity firm Cyfirma attributed the campaign with moderate confidence to a threat actor known as DoNot Team, which is also tracked as...
Researchers Discover New Sophisticated Toolkit Targeting Apple macOS Systems
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a set of malicious artifacts that they say is part of a sophisticated toolkit targeting Apple macOS systems. "As of now, these samples are still largely undetected and very little information is available about any of them," Bitdefender researchers Andrei...
Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Certifi package may affect IBM Storage Scale (CVE-2022-23491)
Summary A vulnerability in Certifi package may affect the IBM Storage Scale call home feature. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2022-23491 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified error in with TrustCor's ownership also operated a business that produced spyware in Certifi has an unknown impact and attack vecto...
Security Bulletin:Vulnerability in certifi-2018.4.16 affects IBM Integrated Analytics System [ CVE-2022-23491]
Summary The certifi-2018.4.16 package is used by IBM Integrated Analytics System. IBM Integrated Analytics System has addressed the applicable vulnerabiltiy CVE-2022-23491. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2022-23491 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified error in with TrustCor's ownership also operated a...
Kaspersky Reveals iPhones of Employees Infected with Spyware
By Waqas The researchers discovered the oldest traces of infection in 2019, and it is believed that the attack is still active. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Kaspersky Reveals iPhones of Employees Infected with Spyware...
Legislation alone isnβt enough to stop spyware
Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. The use of spyware continues to make headlines across the globe. While primarily used by authoritarian regimes to track potentially sensitive subjects like political opponents or activists, governments from all over the world are guil...
MAL-2023-2692 Malicious code in cxfreezepy (PyPI)
--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 98b9fe0f574ed33e0a4096ba8774936c73969493c1621244334a739ef4f94f5d EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...
Malicious code in cxfreezepy (PyPI)
--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 98b9fe0f574ed33e0a4096ba8774936c73969493c1621244334a739ef4f94f5d EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...
Predator Android Spyware: Researchers Uncover New Data Theft Capabilities
Security researchers have detailed the inner workings of the commercial Android spyware called Predator, which is marketed by the Israeli company Intellexa previously Cytrox. Predator was first documented by Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG in May 2022 as part of attacks leveraging five differe...