…to end the week with a malicious Android app: APT41 hackers target Android users with WyrmSpy, DragonEgg spyware (bleepingcomputer.com) If you need to know why you need to pay attention to these Android (and sometime Apple iOS) smartphone app cyber security threats, then read on here: Just Check – CyberAwake …
Microsoft exploited vulnerability
The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a Microsoft Office/Windows HTML vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog | CISA And from Microsoft: Storm-0978 attacks reveal financial and espionage motives | Microsoft Security Blog
Let’s finish the week where we started it – Android Malware
Here is a deep dive on the operation of the Predator Android malware by Bill Toulas of Bleeping Computer from research by Cisco Talos and the Citizen Lab. Predator: Looking under the hood of Intellexa’s Android spyware (bleepingcomputer.com) Predator is commercially available malware – only sold to governments or authorised …
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Kyocera Android App vulnerability but iOS users should not be smug…
Android apps need careful management We have an HP SoHo printer in the office, that the team use when they are here. The iPhone users use AirPrint the Android users use an approved app, as we have a BYOD policy in place for the all devices. This is especially important …
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Commercial Spyware in court
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: …
Mercenary Spyware
Here is a an interesting article from The Record by Andrea Peterson looking at the impact of “Off-the-shelf spyware” such as Pegasus from the Israeli NSO Group in democratic countries – particularly focusing on its use in Mexico and a recent Citizen Lab report. Democracies are having a reckoning with …
