Bleeping Computer

MAY 22, 2022

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) says that state-backed threat actors used five zero-day vulnerabilities to install Predator spyware developed by commercial surveillance developer Cytrox. [.].

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) linked three exploitation frameworks to a Spanish surveillance spyware vendor named Variston. While tracking the activities of commercial spyware vendors, Threat Analysis Group (TAG) spotted an exploitation framework likely linked Variston IT, a Spanish firm. ” TAG concludes.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 29, 2023

Google TAG researchers reveal two campaigns against iOS, Android, and Chrome users that demonstrate how the commercial surveillance market is thriving despite government-imposed limits.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant reported a surge in the number of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023. In 2023, Google (TAG) and Mandiant discovered 29 out of 97 vulnerabilities exploited in the wild. ” reads the report published by Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Citizen Lab and Google’s TAG revealed that the three recently patched Apple zero-days were used to install Cytrox Predator spyware. citizenlab in coordination with @Google ’s TAG team found that former Egyptian MP Ahmed Eltantawy was targeted with Cytrox’s #Predator #spyware through links sent via SMS and WhatsApp. .

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Tile has an interesting security solution to make its tracking tags harder to use for stalking: The Anti-Theft Mode feature will make the devices invisible to Scan and Secure, the company’s in-app feature that lets you know if any nearby Tiles are following you. ” Apple’s AirTag “notifies iPhone users.”

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Bleeping Computer

JUNE 23, 2022

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed today that RCS Labs, an Italian spyware vendor, has received help from some Internet service providers (ISPs) to infect Android and iOS users in Italy and Kazakhstan with commercial surveillance tools. [.].

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The fact that the issues were discovered by Google TAG suggests they were exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. Addressed issues include CVE-2023-42916 and CVE-2023-42917 which Apple fixed at the end of November. Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered both vulnerabilities.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 31, 2023

"The zero-day exploits were used alongside n-day exploits and took advantage of the large time gap between the fix release and when it was fully deployed on end-user devices," researchers with Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said in a report detailing the attack campaigns.

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Dark Reading

MAY 23, 2022

An analysis from Google TAG shows that Android zero-day exploits were packaged and sold for state-backed surveillance.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

China is being blamed for a massive surveillance operation that targeted Uyghur Muslims. Earlier this year Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a small collection of hacked websites. So now this is a story of a large, expensive, indiscriminate, Chinese-run surveillance operation against an ethnic minority in their country.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The vulnerability was discovered by Clément Lecigne from Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-09-25, a circumstance that suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. _clem1 discovered another ITW 0-day in use by a commercial surveillance vendor: CVE-2023-5217.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 19, 2019

But the infrastructure of total surveillance is everywhere the same, and everywhere being deployed at scale. Just like you can't drop out of the oil economy by refusing to drive a car, you can't opt out of the surveillance economy by forswearing technology (and for many people, that choice is not an option).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. The flaw was reported by Clément Lecigne and Vlad Stolyarov of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-12-19 and fixed in just one day.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Google TAG researchers discovered that threat actors leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in macOS in a watering hole campaign aimed at delivering malware to users in Hong Kong. “To protect our users, TAG routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

Security researchers at Cisco Talos and the Citizen Lab have shared technical details about a commercial Android spyware named Predator that is sold by the surveillance firm Intellexa (formerly known as Cytrox). The attacks aimed at installing the surveillance spyware Predator, developed by the North Macedonian firm Cytrox.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2023

June 2023 security update for Android released by Google fixes about fifty flaws, including an Arm Mali GPU bug exploited by surveillance firms in their spyware. The flaw made headlines because it was exploited by surveillance firms for their spyware. This vulnerability grants the attacker system access.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The fact that the issues were discovered by Google TAG suggests they were exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered both vulnerabilities. Apple addressed the flaws with the release of iOS 17.1.2, inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch,

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SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

The internal name of the implant, as becomes apparent from PDB paths in the executable binaries, is ‘mklg’ This name perhaps stands for ‘Mark KeyLogGer’, where ‘Mark’ is an internal HTML tag used by the implant.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

Security researchers from Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Google Project Zero revealed that four zero-day vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild earlier this year. ” Post by @_clem1 & @maddiestone on 4 0days TAG found this year (with IOCs!). ” reads the post published by Google.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

” The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. Reported by Clément Lecigne and Vlad Stolyarov of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-12-19” reads the advisory published by the IT giant.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered the zero-day on on 2023-11-24.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered the zero-day on on 2023-11-24. 200 for Windows, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.”

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Tech advances are accelerating the use of facial recognition as a reliable and ubiquitous mass surveillance tool, privacy advocates warn. Many of these photos are tagged with the identity of the people in them. The development of universal video surveillance with facial recognition is generally happening away from the public eye.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 3, 2022

mass surveillance campaigns internationally including the active use of variety of tags and automatically registered Twitter accounts. Although many of the accounts appear to be currently suspended the earliest tweets part of the campaign date back to July, 2022 and the campaign appears to be currently and still ongoing.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 15, 2021

The latest iOS beta suggests that Apple’s next big update will include an iPhone feature that warns users about hidden, physical surveillance of their location. If someone secretly hides a tag in your possessions, your phone will notice and warn you about it. In theory, this type of surveillance has been possible for years.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 10, 2024

” Let’s break it down: what these services offer, how they help, and if the peace of mind is worth the price tag. Deciding whether identity theft protection is worth the price tag takes more than a simple cost-benefit analysis. What Do Identity Theft Protection Companies Do? What about your identity?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 27, 2021

Highly placed sources say that Ragnarok that also involved in double extortion tactics shut its doors because of the constant surveillance of the law enforcement agencies of west. In a month or so, a special task force linked to UK’s NCSC was about to track down the criminals to their headquarters.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

Oracle spent 6 months to fix ‘Mega’ flaws in the Fusion Middleware Multiple malicious packages in PyPI repository found stealing AWS secrets Attackers exploited a zero-day in Mitel VOIP devices to compromise a network Threat actors continue to exploit Log4Shell in VMware Horizon Systems Vulnerabilities in the Jacuzzi SmartTub app could allow to access (..)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 10, 2023

said Musk, by directly tagging the same to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg. On Tuesday, the Tesla Chief raised concerns that “WhatsApp cannot be trusted” when it comes to keeping its user data private and secure from snooping eyes. “If

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

MIAMI–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Shareholders entrusted Cloudastructure with $30 million via a RegA+ to expand their cloud-based video surveillance platform empowered with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning analytics. As a result of that team’s efforts, Cloudastructure’s video surveillance platform now includes: People Detection.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

BVS President and CEO Scott Schober spoke with SecureWorld News about the need for a product like this: "Stalking and illegal tracking of individuals, packages, and vehicles has never been easier due to tiny, high-tech BLE tags, including Apple's AirTag, Tile Tracker, and Samsung Smart Tags.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Bahrain government and groups linked to them—such as LULU , a known operator of Pegasus, and others like them who are associated with a separate government—were tagged as culprits of the surveillance activity. Dubbed by Citizen Lab as FORCEDENTRY, this iMessage exploit is said to have been in use since February 2021.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 23, 2019

He does not have to visit any easily to surveil post office or letter box, instead the whole public space becomes his hiding territory. Usually each unit of product is tagged with a piece of paper containing a unique secret word which is used to prove to the sales layer that a dead drop was found.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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Webroot

JULY 8, 2021

These are some of those affects inflating the price tag of an attack, which we call The Hidden Costs of Ransomware. Were a cybercriminal to compromise a trusted supplier to distribute ransomware, rather than for surveillance as in that attack, the costs could be enormous. Lost productivity.

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