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 …
The story of Pegasus spyware continues UPDATED 12 July 2022
This post was first published on 15 June 2022 Update 12 July 2022 President Bidens’ administration’s decision to blacklist the NSO Group is proving to be a problem for L3Harris, a US defence contractor that wants to buy the Pegasus spyware part of the business: L3Harris in move to buy …
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New commercial spyware for phones
Google researchers are reporting on spyware that is active on both Apple and Android smartphones – the spyware is called Hermit and Google has taken steps to protect Android users. The software developed and marketed by RCS Lab, based in Milan, will exfiltrate messages ,contacts and password information from targeted …
India and Pegasus
Here is another article looking at the impact of the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. India’s battle with Pegasus tells a bigger tale of tech laws • The Register Commercial spyware – buy it (if you are an approved government or law enforcement agency) and start spying. The allegations are that …
Israeli government websites disrupted
I have written recently about the increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks – here is a real world example of the effectiveness of these new massive attacks: Israeli govt sites hit by huge DDoS attack • The Register
Apple sues NSO Group on behalf of iPhone users!
NSO Group is the company that sells Pegasus – a commercially available spyware package. NSO Group and Pegasus are regularly featured here: Click here for the Pegasus articles Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware – Apple (UK) The Apple press release states that the action …
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Spyware Company added to trade blacklist
I have written about the controversial, commercially available, spyware Pegasus a number of times: Pegasus – Smart Thinking Solutions Frank Gardner, the BBC’s respected security correspondent refers to the Pegasus software as military grade spyware. Now the company behind the software, NSO Group of Israel, has now been added the …
