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: …
Qatari World Cup apps
There is no denying the fact that the compulsory Qatari World Cup apps, Ehteraz, a Covid-19 tracker from the Qatari Ministry of Public Health, and Hayya from the Qatari Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy for the World Cup, will be collecting a lot of information on everyone attending. This …
M.P.s warned about the risk of being spied on
The House of Commons Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to all M.P.s making them aware that the information they have on their mobile phones would be valuable to a “hostile state” and that they should take appropriate steps to protect that information. Hostile states are targeting you, Speaker warns …
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Malicious Android smartphone apps
Here are a couple of the current examples of Android malware that could compromise your organisation, reported in the technical press this week. New SandStrike spyware infects Android devices via malicious VPN app (bleepingcomputer.com) Malicious Android apps with 1M+ installs found on Google Play (bleepingcomputer.com) They have different malicious intent …
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 …
Malicious Android apps get an update to avoid detection
Legitimate software vendors update and patch their products to combat threat actors, so it is no surprise to see that threat actors update and patch their malicious products to evade updated defences: Hacking group updates Furball Android spyware to evade detection (bleepingcomputer.com) Just make sure you manage those Android devices …
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