The multiple suppliers of commercial spyware (nearly) all claim to only sell their products to national governments or authorised law enforcement agencies – yet the use of these products by other agencies seems widespread. Then there is who the national government is! The Canadian based research group Citizen Lab have …
Disinformation to help Pegasus
I have written a number of articles about the commercial spyware Pegasus. It has attracted the the interest of the European Parliament who are investigating the use of Pegasus around the world. Now MEPs are being warned about disinformation campaigns that are being pout out there to derail their investigation: …
Spyware across Europe
Here is a great weekend read, which I found very interesting: It is an excellent article by Morgan Meaker at Wired UK, examining the apparent plague of spyware, being discovered on the smartphones of activists, journalists and politicians, across Europe Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe | WIRED UK All …
Zero-day targeted attack against journalists using Google Chrome
This attack was highly targeted, using spyware from an Israeli cyber weapons company Candiru. To get the spyware onto the target machines the threat actors exploited, what was then, a zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome. Zero-day used to infect Chrome users could pose threat to Edge and Safari users, too …
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