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US Gov sanctioned Intellexa Consortium individuals and entities behind Predator spyware attacks

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government sanctioned two individuals and five entities linked to the development and distribution of the Predator spyware used to target Americans. The Department of the Treasury warns that the proliferation of commercial spyware poses growing risks to the United States. The surveillance software was also used to spy on U.S.

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Recently patched Apple and Chrome zero-days exploited to infect devices in Egypt with Predator spyware

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Citizen Lab and Google’s TAG revealed that the three recently patched Apple zero-days were used to install Cytrox Predator spyware. Apple this week released emergency security updates to address three new zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-41993, CVE-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41992) that have been exploited in attacks in the wild.

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Google fixed two actively exploited Pixel vulnerabilities

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Two issues fixed by the IT giant, tracked as CVE-2024-29745 and CVE-2024-29748, are actively exploited in the wild. “The most severe of these issues is a high security vulnerability in the System component that could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed.”

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Apple emergency security updates fix two new iOS zero-days

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Apple released emergency security updates to address two new iOS zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild against iPhone users. Apple released emergency security updates to address two iOS zero-day vulnerabilities, respectively tracked as CVE-2024-23225 and CVE-2024-23296, that were exploited in attacks against iPhone devices.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 462 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Judge ordered NSO Group to hand over the Pegasus spyware code to WhatsApp Cybercrime BlackCat Ransomware Affiliate TTPs American Express credit cards EXPOSED in third-party vendor data breach – account numbers and names among details accessed in hack LockBit 3.0’S

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 460 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 464 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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surfaces in the threat landscape Pokemon Company resets some users’ passwords Ukraine cyber police arrested crooks selling 100 million compromised accounts New AcidPour wiper targets Linux x86 devices.

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