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New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace

February 28, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, citizen lab, dakota cary, data breaches, i-soon, mei danowski, Ne'er-Do-Well News, poison carp, sentinelone, u.s. department of justice, will thomas, wu haibo

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:27:47 +0000

A new data leak that appears to have come from one of China’s top private cybersecurity firms provides a rare glimpse into the commercial side of China’s many state-sponsored hacking groups. Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry.

MalwareBytes Security

Zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome and Android exploited by commercial spyware

May 28, 2022 admin citizen lab, cve-2021-1048, cve-2021-37973, cve-2021-37976, cve-2021-38000, cve-2021-38002, cytrox, edps, Pegasus, Predator, privacy, tag, verint

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 09:55:59 +0000

A spyware vendor called Cytrox was found to be using several zero-day vulnerabilities in Google’s Chrome browser and the Android kernel component.

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Pegasus spyware found on UK government office phone

April 21, 2022 admin AI, Artificial Intelligence, citizen lab, john scott-railton, lock and code podcast, maestro, national cyber security centre, ncsc, New Yorker, nso group, Pegasus, princess haya, privacy, sheikh mohammed bin rashid al-maktoum, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:32:28 +0000

The NSO Group’s flagship spyware was found on a device in 10 Downing Street’s network.

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Twitter cans 2FA service provider over surveillance claims

February 13, 2022 admin citizen lab, dario betti, gary miller, gsma, ilja gorelik, mitto ag, mobile ecosystm forum, privacy, Twitter

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 21:29:40 +0000

Twitter is changing its 2FA service provider after allegations emerged that it sold access to its networks to surveillance companies.

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Citizen Lab Dario Betti Gary Miller GSMA Ilja Gorelik Mitto AG Mobile Ecosystm Forum twitter

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