Apple warns people of mercenary attacks via threat notification system
Apple has sent alerts to people in 92 nations to say it’s detected that they may have been a victim of a mercenary attack.
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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.
Read morePegasus spyware creator ordered to reveal code used to spy on WhatsApp users
Meta has won a court case against spyware vendor NSO Group to reveal the Pegasus spyware code that allows spying on WhatsApp users.
Read morePegasus spyware and how it exploited a WebP vulnerability
Categories: Android Categories: Apple Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Tags: Pegasus Tags: spyware Tags: nso Tags: webp Tags: libwebp Tags: buffer overflow The company behind the infamous Pegasus spyware used a vulnerability in almost every browser to plant their malware on victim’s devices. |
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Read moreTwo Apple issues added by CISA to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities
Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Blastpass Tags: citizenlab Tags: pegasus Tags: nso Tags: cisa Tags: apple Tags: cve-2023-41064 Tags: cve-2023-41061 Tags: buffer overflow CISA has added two recently discovered Apple vulnerabilities to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities. |
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Read moreWhatsApp lawsuit against NSO Group greenlit by Supreme Court
Categories: News Tags: Pegasus Tags: spyware Tags: Pegasus spyware Tags: NSO Group Tags: NSO Tags: Apple Tags: WhatsApp Tags: Meta Tags: Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act The US Supreme Court essentially gave Meta’s WhatsApp the go ahead to pursue their case against Pegasus’s NSO Group. |
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Read moreHermit spyware is deployed with the help of a victim’s ISP
Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 10:03:54 +0000
A new commercial spyware for governments, called Hermit, has spotted in the wild. It affects iOS and all Android versions.
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Read moreZero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome and Android exploited by commercial spyware
Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 09:55:59 +0000
A spyware vendor called Cytrox was found to be using several zero-day vulnerabilities in Google’s Chrome browser and the Android kernel component.
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Read moreA week in security (April 18 – 24)
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:44:06 +0000
The most important and interesting stories in security from the last seven days
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