…unless you are a company promising only to sell the spyware to approved governments and law enforcement. Australian spyware developer charged after 14,500 sales • The Register
Commercialised cyberweapons
For when you have time, here are two articles from Microsoft looking at cyberweapons: Continuing the fight against private sector cyberweapons – Microsoft On the Issues Untangling KNOTWEED: European private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits – Microsoft Security Blog The view from the US Government Pegasus spyware: Just ‘tip of …
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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Who decides who the good guys are? Don’t worry though NSO only sells it’s spyware to approved governments and law enforcement agencies
Here is another report from the well respected Citizen Lab about the use/misuse, sale/mis-sale of the spyware Pegasus by the Israeli NSO Group. GeckoSpy: Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement – The Citizen Lab The sale of these types of cyber weapons on the open market, is enabling governments …
Apple announces specialised security for high risk users
In the autumn Apple will be adding “Lockdown mode” functionality to the range of it’s operating systems – iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura. For a drastic reduction in functionality, users, who are at risk from sophisticated cyber attacks, such as those posed by Pegasus and Hermit spyware, will …
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