Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is a follow-up to last week’s story: New commercial spyware for phones – Smart Thinking Solutions This is Google describing how they countered the Hermit smartphone malware and discusses their Project Zero for countering zero-day threats. Spyware vendor targets users in Italy and Kazakhstan (blog.google) Your best defence against …
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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 …
Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence have been tracking phishing emails that contain a triple threat of remote access trojans – RATS. The package is contained in an infected Microsoft Excel document and once the recipient of the email makes the mistake of opening the file – because the file name …
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This post was originally published on 3 May 2022 Update 27 May 2022 Following the hacking of Spanish governmental phones, Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez, will be bringing forward new legislation to regulate and oversee the nation’s spy agencies: Spain’s PM vows to reform intelligence services following phone hacking scandal …
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 …
