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Paragon Spyware Attacks Exploited WhatsApp Zero-Day 

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Paragon Spyware Attacks Exploited WhatsApp Zero-Day  2025-03-20 at 12:03 By Eduard Kovacs Attacks involving Paragon’s Graphite spyware involved a WhatsApp zero-day that could be exploited without any user interaction. The post Paragon Spyware Attacks Exploited WhatsApp Zero-Day  appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React to this headline:

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North Korean Hackers Distributed Android Spyware via Google Play

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North Korean Hackers Distributed Android Spyware via Google Play 2025-03-13 at 15:01 By Eduard Kovacs The North Korea-linked APT37 has been observed targeting Android users with spyware distributed via Google Play. The post North Korean Hackers Distributed Android Spyware via Google Play appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Amnesty Reveals Cellebrite Zero-Day Android Exploit on Serbian Student Activist

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Amnesty Reveals Cellebrite Zero-Day Android Exploit on Serbian Student Activist 2025-02-28 at 23:02 By Ryan Naraine Amnesty International publishes technical details on zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by Cellebrite’s mobile forensic tools to spy on a Serbian student activist. The post Amnesty Reveals Cellebrite Zero-Day Android Exploit on Serbian Student Activist appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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OpenAI Bans ChatGPT Accounts Used by Chinese Group for Spy Tools

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OpenAI Bans ChatGPT Accounts Used by Chinese Group for Spy Tools 2025-02-24 at 19:18 By Eduard Kovacs OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts used by Chinese threat actors, including ones leveraged for the development of spying tools. The post OpenAI Bans ChatGPT Accounts Used by Chinese Group for Spy Tools appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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Italian Government Denies It spied on Journalists and Migrant Activists Using Paragon Spyware

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Italian Government Denies It spied on Journalists and Migrant Activists Using Paragon Spyware 2025-02-12 at 22:00 By Associated Press The Italian government denied it hacked seven cellphones with military-grade surveillance technology from Paragon Solutions. The post Italian Government Denies It spied on Journalists and Migrant Activists Using Paragon Spyware appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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Serbian government used Cellebrite to unlock phones, install spyware

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Serbian government used Cellebrite to unlock phones, install spyware 2024-12-16 at 20:19 By Zeljka Zorz Serbian police and intelligence officers used Cellebrite forensic extraction software to unlock journalists’ and activists’ phones and install previously unknown Android spyware called NoviSpy, a new Amnesty International report claims. The unlocking was made possible through exploitation of a zero-day

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How widespread is mercenary spyware? More than you think

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How widespread is mercenary spyware? More than you think 2024-12-04 at 16:18 By Zeljka Zorz A targeted hunt on 2,500 mobile devices for indicators of compromise associated with mercenary spyware has revealed that its use is not as rare as one would hope. The results of the hunt Earlier this year, iVerify added a threat

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Undetected Android Spyware Targeting Individuals In South Korea

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Undetected Android Spyware Targeting Individuals In South Korea 2024-09-23 at 10:51 By rohansinhacyblecom Key Takeaways Overview Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) has uncovered a previously undetected Android spyware campaign targeting individuals in South Korea, which has been active since June 2024. The spyware leverages an Amazon AWS S3 bucket as its Command and Control

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US Sanctions Intellexa Executives as Surveillance Spyware Crackdown Expands

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US Sanctions Intellexa Executives as Surveillance Spyware Crackdown Expands 2024-09-16 at 20:31 By Ryan Naraine Sanctions target five individuals linked to Intellexa Consortium as the US government expands its crackdown on commercial spyware merchants. The post US Sanctions Intellexa Executives as Surveillance Spyware Crackdown Expands appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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Predator Spyware Resurfaces With Fresh Infrastructure

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Predator Spyware Resurfaces With Fresh Infrastructure 2024-09-09 at 13:31 By Ionut Arghire Recorded Future observes renewed Predator spyware activity on fresh infrastructure after a drop caused by US sanctions. The post Predator Spyware Resurfaces With Fresh Infrastructure appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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Thousands Download New Mandrake Android Spyware Version From Google Play

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Thousands Download New Mandrake Android Spyware Version From Google Play 2024-07-30 at 13:16 By Ionut Arghire Five Android applications containing the Mandrake spyware have been downloaded over 32,000 times from Google Play since 2022. The post Thousands Download New Mandrake Android Spyware Version From Google Play appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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GuardZoo spyware used by Houthis to target military personnel

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GuardZoo spyware used by Houthis to target military personnel 2024-07-09 at 15:16 By Help Net Security Lookout discovered GuardZoo, Android spyware targeting Middle Eastern military personnel. This campaign leverages malicious apps with military and religious themes to lure victims via social engineering on mobile devices. While researchers are still actively analyzing data, thus far, they

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Spain Reopens a Probe Into a Pegasus Spyware Case After a French Request to Work Together

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Spain Reopens a Probe Into a Pegasus Spyware Case After a French Request to Work Together 2024-04-23 at 20:47 By Associated Press The judge with Spain’s National Court said there is reason to believe that the new information provided by France can “allow the investigations to advance.” The post Spain Reopens a Probe Into a

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Zero-day exploitation surged in 2023, Google finds

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Zero-day exploitation surged in 2023, Google finds 2024-03-28 at 17:17 By Zeljka Zorz 2023 saw attackers increasingly focusing on the discovery and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in third-party libraries (libvpx, ImagelO) and drivers (Mali GPU, Qualcomm Adreno GPU), as they can affect multiple products and effectively offer more possibilities for attack. Another interesting conclusion from

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The fight against commercial spyware misuse is heating up

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The fight against commercial spyware misuse is heating up 2024-02-07 at 14:46 By Zeljka Zorz Though there are organizations out there investigating how commercial spyware is misused to target journalists, human rights defenders and dissidents, the growing market related to the development and sale of this type of software and the exploits used to deploy

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Google Links Over 60 Zero-Days to Commercial Spyware Vendors

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Google Links Over 60 Zero-Days to Commercial Spyware Vendors 2024-02-06 at 13:16 By Eduard Kovacs More than 60 of the Adobe, Google, Android, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple zero-days that have come to light since 2016 attributed to spyware vendors.  The post Google Links Over 60 Zero-Days to Commercial Spyware Vendors appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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US to Roll Out Visa Restrictions on People Who Misuse Spyware to Target Journalists, Activists

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US to Roll Out Visa Restrictions on People Who Misuse Spyware to Target Journalists, Activists 2024-02-05 at 23:31 By Associated Press Officials said the visa restriction policy can apply to citizens of any country found to have misused or facilitated the malign use of spyware The post US to Roll Out Visa Restrictions on People

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At Least 30 Journalists, Lawyers and Activists Hacked With Pegasus in Jordan, Forensic Probe Finds

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At Least 30 Journalists, Lawyers and Activists Hacked With Pegasus in Jordan, Forensic Probe Finds 2024-02-01 at 15:46 By Associated Press Pegasus spyware from NSO Group was used in Jordan to hack the cellphones of journalists, lawyers, human rights and political activists. The post At Least 30 Journalists, Lawyers and Activists Hacked With Pegasus in

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Kaspersky releases utility to detect iOS spyware infections

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Kaspersky releases utility to detect iOS spyware infections 2024-01-17 at 13:46 By Help Net Security Kaspersky’s researchers have developed a lightweight method to detect indicators of infection from sophisticated iOS spyware such as NSO Group’s Pegasus, QuaDream’s Reign, and Intellexa’s Predator through analyzing a log file created on iOS devices. Analyzing the Shutdown.log The company’s

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Trail of Bits Spinout iVerify Tackles Mercenary Spyware Threat

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Trail of Bits Spinout iVerify Tackles Mercenary Spyware Threat 06/12/2023 at 19:03 By Ryan Naraine iVerify, a seed-stage startup spun out of Trail of Bits, ships a mobile threat hunting platform to neutralize iOS and Android zero-days. The post Trail of Bits Spinout iVerify Tackles Mercenary Spyware Threat appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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