Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

After having tracked stalkerware for years, Malwarebytes can reveal that in 2021, detections for apps that can non-consensually monitor another person’s activity reached their highest peak ever, but that, amidst the record-setting numbers, the volume of detections actually began to significantly decrease in the second half of the year.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What role does technology play in facilitating intimate partner abuse? What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? The Federal Trade Commission in the United States, banned an app called SpyPhone, and its CEO Scott Zuckerman, from operating in the surveillance industry. It's natural.

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Technology Software Surveillance Media 52

SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Lazarus targets the defence industry. Over the last two years, we have tracked Lazarus’s use of ThreatNeedle, an advanced malware cluster of Manuscrypt (aka NukeSped), to target several industries. Silver Sparrow is another new threat that targets the M1 chip. Secondhand news. Stalkerware during the pandemic.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 22, 2021

With tools like Pegasus that can be abused on a global scale, we take on too big a risk. It enables abuses like the mobile phone hack of Hatice Cengiz , former fiancée of murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khoshoggi. A dangerous industry. Pegasus is not new. Digital forensics labs know how to catch it.

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Spyware Surveillance Mobile Government 122