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 isn’t 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Intellexapreviously Cytrox. Predator was first documented by Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG in May 2022 as part of attacks leveraging five differen...

MAL-2023-4800 Malicious code in oculoushide (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 9b7403cc73bb98e45396c93de766686608f4d7f80a03e6e8af73d244de0c7fe1 EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

Malicious code in oculoushide (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: checkmarx 9b7403cc73bb98e45396c93de766686608f4d7f80a03e6e8af73d244de0c7fe1 EsqueleSquad group published nearly 6000 malicious PyPi and NPM packages, executing spyware and information-stealing malware...

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...

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...

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...