Mercenary mayhem: A technical analysis of Intellexa's PREDATOR spyware

We would like to thank The Citizen Lab for their cooperation, support and inputs into this research. Commercial spyware use is on the rise, with actors leveraging these sophisticated tools to conduct surveillance operations against a growing number of targets. Cisco Talos has new details of a...

Warning: Samsung Devices Under Attack! New Security Flaw Exposed

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has warned of active exploitation of a medium-severity flaw affecting Samsung devices. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-21492 CVSS score: 4.4, impacts select Samsung devices running Android versions 11, 12, and 13. The South Korean...

WebKit Under Attack: Apple Issues Emergency Patches for 3 New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Apple on Thursday rolled out security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and the Safari web browser to address dozens of flaws, including three new zero-days that it said are being actively exploited in the wild. The three security shortcomings are listed below - CVE-2023-32409 - A...

Malicious code in discord-spammer-webhooks (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 992e658db3addbbf4402e9f8bfb5c3a8af81b96c87e70863df390190f52de66b EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

MAL-2023-2474 Malicious code in discord-spammer-webhooks (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 992e658db3addbbf4402e9f8bfb5c3a8af81b96c87e70863df390190f52de66b EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

MAL-2023-6525 Malicious code in selfpyintpaypal (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 13bec999a49bf9dee37e242115164d05756af19ea57d26d0b54b4c67c1f01571 EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

Malicious code in selfpyintpaypal (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 13bec999a49bf9dee37e242115164d05756af19ea57d26d0b54b4c67c1f01571 EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

Malicious code in selfcontrolloadload (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 91681b7a493590b12a07e21ace57fdd2de85ae9dc23ca4f31d3b60c6a8ec1b9d EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

MAL-2023-5975 Malicious code in selfcontrolloadload (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 91681b7a493590b12a07e21ace57fdd2de85ae9dc23ca4f31d3b60c6a8ec1b9d EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

Malicious code in py-intellibint (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx c51243b24c705c8e86f895cf56a4aaf31db49b64674882dbef77513f1bc075dc EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

MAL-2023-5233 Malicious code in py-intellibint (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx c51243b24c705c8e86f895cf56a4aaf31db49b64674882dbef77513f1bc075dc EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

Malicious code in esqgameencodereplace (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx a52a247b3876e80074ffdc24a1731191f9a280dcccbba73c0090e5f2aeac4ac2 EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

MAL-2023-2868 Malicious code in esqgameencodereplace (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx a52a247b3876e80074ffdc24a1731191f9a280dcccbba73c0090e5f2aeac4ac2 EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

Malicious code in libpipultravirtual (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 7fcc0ea3b75f3b40abcfb64156cfe1244cf729c1511a1e325ca450c73a7ee9f4 EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

MAL-2023-4330 Malicious code in libpipultravirtual (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 7fcc0ea3b75f3b40abcfb64156cfe1244cf729c1511a1e325ca450c73a7ee9f4 EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

BouldSpy Android Spyware: Iranian Government's Alleged Tool for Spying on Minority Groups

A new Android surveillanceware possibly used by the Iranian government has been used to spy on over 300 individuals belonging to minority groups. The malware, dubbed BouldSpy , has been attributed with moderate confidence to the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran FARAJA...

BouldSpy Android Spyware: Iranian Government's Alleged Tool for Spying on Minority Groups

A new Android surveillanceware possibly used by the Iranian government has been used to spy on over 300 individuals belonging to minority groups. The malware, dubbed BouldSpy, has been attributed with moderate confidence to the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran FARAJA...

Cyberweapons Manufacturer QuaDream Shuts Down

Following a report on its activities, the Israeli spyware company QuaDream has shut down. This was QuadDream: Key Findings Based on an analysis of samples shared with us by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, we developed indicators that enabled us to identify at least five civil society victims of...

Criminals Are Using Tiny Devices to Hack and Steal Cars

Apple thwarts NSO’s spyware, the rise of a GPT-4 black market, Russia targets Starlink internet connections, and more...

iOS Lockdown Mode effective against NSO zero-click exploit

Apples Lockdown Mode feature alerted a victim to one of the latest NSO exploits, according to a report by Citizen Lab. image courtesy of Citizen Lab This is a huge deal since it shows how useful Lockdown Mode can be, even against exploits developed by one of the worlds most notorious commercial...