Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2024

According to rumors, the Polish special services are using surveillance software to spy on government opponents. According to the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, the spyware was used to spy on the phone of Jacek Karnowski, mayor of the city of Sopot, in 2018-2019. In 2023, the Polish senate declared the use of Pegasus spyware unlawful.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2021

The hackers managed their intrusion from servers inside the United States, exploiting legal prohibitions on the National Security Agency from engaging in domestic surveillance and eluding cyberdefenses deployed by the Department of Homeland Security. The October files, distributed to customers on Oct. We know at minimum they had access Oct.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

In October 2019, WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. In May, Facebook has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Earlier this month, German authorities have raided the offices of FinFisher, the German surveillance software firm, accused of providing its software to oppressive regimes. The post German authorities raid the offices of the FinFisher surveillance firm appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

WhatsApp linked the hacking campaign to Paragon, an Israeli commercial surveillance vendor acquired by AE Industrial Partners for $900 million in December 2024. The WIS, among other things, allows defendants clients to send cipher files with installation vectors that ultimately allow the clients to surveil target users.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 12, 2023

Surveillance malware targets Libyan government entities, with possible links to a 2019 Egypt attack campaign.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 12, 2019

The first concern was over high numbers: in both 2016 and 2017, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued 40 orders for collection, but the NSA collected hundreds of millions of CDRs, and the agency provided little clarification for the high numbers. This paper sheds significant light on all three of these concerns.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the Italian surveillance firm RCS Labs was helped by some Internet service providers (ISPs) in Italy and Kazakhstan to infect Android and iOS users with their spyware. Then the attackers asked the victims to enable the installation of apps from unknown sources.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Experts found multiple flaws (CVE-2019-2234) in the Android camera apps provided by Google and Samsung that could allow attackers to spy on users. SecurityAffairs – Android, CVE-2019-2234). The post CVE-2019-2234 flaws in Android Camera Apps exposed millions of users surveillance appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

According to the original complaint against NSO Group, filed in October 2019, the spyware vendor used WhatsApp servers to send malware to around 1400 mobile phones. The ruling comes after a six-year legal case against the company after Meta accused it of misusing its servers to spy on users.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance firm NSO and fears its staff may be targeted by the company with its Pegasus spyware. The name NSO Group made the headlines last week after the disclosure of the WhatsApp flaw exploited by the company to remotely install its surveillance software.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Vice has a detailed article about how the FBI gets data from cell phone providers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, based on a leaked (I think) 2019 139-page presentation.

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Threatpost

MARCH 26, 2020

The malware, the work of a new APT called TwoSail Junk, allows deep surveillance and total control over iOS devices.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2022

According to a report published by Reuters, an Israeli surveillance software was used to spy on senior officials in the European Commission. One of the officials targeted with the infamous spyware there is Didier Reynders, a senior Belgian statesman who has served as the European Justice Commissioner since 2019. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

One of the Apple iOS zero-day flaws exploited by the NSO group was also used by another surveillance firm named QuaDream. One of the vulnerabilities in Apple iOS that was previously exploited by the spyware developed by the Israeli company NSO Group was also separately used by another surveillance firm named QuaDream.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

Court ordered surveillance firm NSO Group to hand over the source code for its Pegasus spyware and other products to Meta. Judge ordered the surveillance firm to hand over the source code for its Pegasus spyware and other products to the social network giant. from April 29, 2018, to May 10, 2020).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

Experts uncovered an enterprise-grade surveillance malware dubbed Hermit used to target individuals in Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy since 2019. Lookout Threat Lab researchers uncovered enterprise-grade Android surveillance spyware, named Hermit, used by the government of Kazakhstan to track individuals within the country.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Lookout researchers discovered two long-running surveillance campaigns targeting the ethnic minority Uyghurs. Researchers from mobile security firm Lookout uncovered two long-running surveillance campaigns targeting the Uyghurs minority. List of installed packages. Call logs and geocoded location associated with the call. .

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

We are excited to announce that SiteLock ® INFINITY ™ was recently recognized as a winner of the 2019 Cloud Computing Excellence Product of the Year Award by TMC’s Cloud Computing Magazine. Once the initial site scan is complete, it scans again to ensure constant surveillance and protection with the highest degree of reliability.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The victim was infected by PowerShell malware and we discovered evidence that the actor had already stolen data from the victim and had been surveilling this victim for several months. To surveil the victim, the list includes target folders as well as /Camera, /Recordings, /KakaoTalk (a renowned Korean messenger), /??(documents),

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We are proud to announce the Duo has achieved ISO 27001:2013, 27017:2015, and 27018:2019 certification! What is ISO 27001:2013, 27017:2015 and 27018:2019? An ISO 27000 series certification is valid for three years and requires an annual surveillance audit to ensure continued compliance for the lifespan of the certification.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

Security experts have found a malicious app in the Google Play that exploits the recently patched CVE-2019-2215 zero-day vulnerability. Earlier October, Google Project Zero researchers Maddie Stone publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2019-2215 , in Android. ” reads a blog post published by Stone.

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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. link] — Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) October 29, 2019.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

That included an FBI counterintelligence investigation that began around 2012, when agents started monitoring the communications of a small group of Supermicro workers, using warrants obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act , or FISA, according to five of the officials. We need some fundamental security research here.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 20, 2025

Paragon, founded in 2019 by Ehud Barak and Ehud Schneorson, is the maker of a surveillance tool called Graphite that's capable of harvesting sensitive data from instant messaging applications

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Bosch, known more for its line of refrigerators, ovens, and dishwashers, also develops and sells an entire suite of surveillance cameras. The Intercept also reported that the operating system used on modern Bosch surveillance cameras could potentially be out of date. It shouldn’t. This is not innovation.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2020

The legal dispute between Facebook and NSO group continues even after the Israeli surveillance firm filed a motion to dismiss the case earlier this month. The surveillance implant used by the NSO group used an exploit for a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , in the WhatsApp VoIP feature.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 19, 2021

Britain is all set to launch a new law where the common public will be subjected to AI driven CCTV surveillance that will help nab criminals. Highly placed sources say that in some parts of London, the activity to monitor public has started since 2019.

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Threatpost

APRIL 8, 2019

The surveillance tool was signed with legitimate Apple developer certificates.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 7, 2019

From government surveillance to domestic abuse, technology is being used in new and disturbing ways that threaten human rights - how can the security industry fight back?

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

Court orders that were issued in 2019 to Apple and Google demanded that the companies hand over information on accounts identified by push tokens linked to alleged supporters of the Islamic State terrorist group. The post Surveillance through Push Notifications appeared first on Security Boulevard. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.),

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Daniel Miessler

JUNE 15, 2020

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Schneier on Security

JULY 28, 2021

The Pillar says it obtained 24 months’ worth of “commercially available records of app signal data” covering portions of 2018, 2019, and 2020, which included records of Grindr usage and locations where the app was used.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Government-backed groups and customers of commercial surveillance vendors (that’s sanitized corporate-speak for spyware) were responsible for over half the attacks that the researchers were able to attribute. Spyware continues to be a much bigger factor in zero-day exploits today than it was before 2023.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

Facebook has recently patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device. The bad news is that experts are aware of attacks exploiting the WhatsApp zero-day to deliver surveillance software.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The attackers used an exploit chain named Kismet that was part of the arsenal of the controversial Pegasus spyware that is sold by the surveillance firm NSO Group. These surgical attacks took place between July and August 2020, but experts speculate the attack are going on since at least October 2019. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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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 mobile version of the surveillance software in the first stage of the infection leverages the exploits to get root access. ” reads the Amnesty’s report.

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