Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The Sweden government is going to authorize the use of spyware on suspects’ devices to spy on their communications and track them. “ The police are given the opportunity to read encrypted communications. From March next year, it will be legal to intercept encrypted calls in mobiles, computers and video calls.”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has urged the EU to ban the development and deployment of spyware with the capabilities of Pegasus to protect fundamental rights and freedoms. For an in-depth look at Pegasus, have a listen to our podcast about the world’s most coveted spyware, Pegasus: Lock and Code S03E04.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Experts from Amnesty International uncovered a surveillance campaign that targeted Egyptian civil society organizations with a new version of FinSpy spyware. The binaries are obfuscated and do some checks to detect if the spyware is running in a Virtual Machine. ” reads the Amnesty’s report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Encrypted messaging app Signal denied claims of an alleged zero-day flaw in its platform after a responsible investigation. The popular encrypted messaging app Signal denied claims of an alleged zero-day vulnerability in its platform. Government to determine if they were aware of a zero-day exploit for their platform.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, accusing it of using a flaw in its messaging service to conduct cyberespionage on journalists and activists. WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. reads the description provided by Facebook.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

European Parliament votes to tighten up rules for the sale and export of surveillance and encryption technology. The new rules oblige European companies to apply for government licenses to export surveillance solutions demonstrating that the sale doesn’t pose a risk to human rights.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 26, 2021

Researchers from Citizen Lab, an academic research and development lab based in the University of Toronto in Canada, has recently discovered that an exploit affecting iMessage is being used to target Bahraini activists with the Pegasus spyware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

CheckPoint uncovered an extensive surveillance operation conducted by Iranian APT actor and tracked as Domestic Kitten aimed at specific groups of individuals. ” This means that the Domestic Kitten surveillance operation had collateral victims whose details were leaked from contact lists or conversations with the targets.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Many governments worldwide persecute their internal oppositions charging them with criminal activities and use strict online surveillance to track them. The surveillance software developed by NSO Group was used by government organizations worldwide to spy on human rights groups , activists, journalists, lawyers, and dissidents.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. And watchdog groups say its products are often found to be used in surveillance abuses.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 10, 2022

This legislation will be presented tomorrow, May 11, 2022 and would also apply to communications services that are end-to-end (E2E) encrypted. Not only does this violate our basic human right to privacy, but encrypted messaging has been a boon to activists, dissidents, journalists, whistleblowers, and marginalized groups around the world.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2019

According to the draft law, the country’s intelligence agencies are allowed to, under specific circumstances, to intercept encrypted traffic to and from publishing companies, radio and television broadcasters, and freelance journalists. SecurityAffairs – surveillance, German Intelligence). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A look at the nature and effects of legal, advanced spyware on application security. Pegasus is an advanced spyware that exploits vulnerable mobile apps to gain a foothold on iPhone and Android devices. Access encrypted chats from third-party apps. Media outlets first reported the existence of the spyware in 2016.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2020

We also found that most of the apps used variations of RSA and AES for encryption and key hashes – which are some of the most secure encryption algorithms available today. Four of the apps – Signal, Messenger, WhatsApp and Session – used the Signal protocol for end-to-end encryption. The nature of secure messaging apps.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

Just where is the Global Cyber-defense Market going, and why is it failing so spectacularly to protect the data assets of the largest and most heavily protected government institutions and corporate companies in the world. The Cyber-attack resulted in a large volume of data to be encrypted including database servers and backup data.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The rise of destructive attacks In December of last year, shortly after we released our predictions for 2023, Russian government agencies were reported to have been targeted by a data wiper called CryWiper. However, instead of encrypting the data, it purposefully destroyed it in the affected systems.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

This resulted in the deployment of a custom backdoor, named Sunburst, on the networks of more than 18,000 SolarWinds customers, including many large corporations and government bodies, in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. One of those Fobushell samples was identical to another we previously identified on a Zebrocy C2 server.

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