Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2023

On Monday, the US Supreme Court denied the NSO Group's petition for a writ of certiorari , a request to the high court to review its case, signaling that Meta's WhatsApp can go ahead with its case against the Israeli-based company behind the Pegasus spyware. Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

For decades, governments and companies have surveilled the conversations, movements, and behavior of the public. And then the internet came along and made that a whole lot easier. We kind of know what mass surveillance, mass spying looks like. Below is an edited transcript of their conversation. And that already sounds awful.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

Apple last week announced new security features specifically intended to offer “specialized additional protection to users who may be at risk of highly targeted cyberattacks from private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary spyware.”. Flip phones are not totally immune from government surveillance and action either.).

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Google Security

MAY 15, 2024

Expanded Restricted Settings : To help protect more sensitive permissions that are commonly abused by fraudsters, we’re expanding Android 13’s restricted settings , which require additional user approval to enable permissions when installing an app from an Internet-sideloading source (web browsers, messaging apps or file managers).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

“This activity continues China’s pattern of exploiting internet-facing devices, especially those used for managed security purposes (e.g. Exploited enterprise IT zero-day vulnerabilities: Mandiant Commercial Use of Zero-Days Mandiant also observed three cases in which commercial spyware companies leveraged zero-day flaws.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

The scary part of the story is that a private surveillance firm was aware of the zero-day flaw since at least two years and is actively exploiting the SimJacker vulnerability to spy on mobile users in several countries. Billions of users at risk appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Uber scam lures victims with alert from a real Uber number Teaching cybersecurity skills to special needs children with Alana Robinson: Lock and Code S02E18.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From facial recognition to surveillance cameras to time trackers or just having a couple guys standing over employees’ shoulders, there are a multitude of ways to make sure employees are staying on-task and being productive. Businesses have long wondered if employees are staying focused and doing their jobs.

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SecureList

MARCH 8, 2023

Stalkerware can be downloaded and easily installed by anyone with an Internet connection and physical access to a smartphone. Other types of monitoring or spyware apps that fall outside of the Coalition’s definition are not included in the report statistics. This may lead to an escalation of the situation.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission in the United States, banned an app called SpyPhone, and its CEO Scott Zuckerman, from operating in the surveillance industry. Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc.

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