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The Biden administration is warning that a potential deal between a major American defense firm and NSO Group, a blacklisted Israeli spyware company, to buy the Israeli firm’s hacking tools would raise “serious” counterintelligence and security concerns for the U.S. government.
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Security researchers at Lookout have released new details about an Android spyware deployed in targeted attacks by national governments, with victims in Kazakhstan, Syria and Italy.
The spyware, which Lookout is naming Hermit, was first detected in Kazakhstan in April, just months after the Kazakh government violently suppressed protests against government pol…….
A coalition of human rights groups called Wednesday for a moratorium on the use of spyware, saying that tools such as NSO Group’s Pegasus threaten democracy itself by allowing the monitoring and suppression of political dissent.
Driving the news: “Spyware kills. Spyware silences. Spyware imprisons.” Amnesty international Secretary General Agnes Callamard said in a press conference on the …….
Spyware vendor Cytrox sold zero-day exploits to government-backed snoops who used them to deploy the firm’s Predator spyware in at least three campaigns in 2021, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG).
The Predator campaigns relied on four vulnerabilities in Chrome (CVE-2021-37973, CVE-2021-37976, CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003) and one in Android (CVE-2021-1048) to infect…….
Remote test-taking spyware company Proctorio has spent months turning itself into an internet villain. It all started when student and security researcher Erik Johnson decided to take a look at the inner workings of Proctorio’s spyware, noting that it tracked everything from eye movement to mouse movement (with plenty…….
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police illegally spied on the phones of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son and members of his inner circle, a local newspaper reported Monday. The report prompted a high-level investigation and threw the former leader’s corruption trial into disarray.
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The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Mexican business owner Carlos Guerrero has entered a guilty plea for selling interception and surveillance tools, including IMSI catchers and signal jammers, as well as tools enabling WhatsApp message hacking to customers in the U.S. and Mexico, TechCrunch reports.
Guerrero a…….
Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, February 22, 2022! We are back! Yes, after a lovely long weekend, your entire TechCrunch team is back in the saddle. Which is good because everything appears to be going on at once. So it was perfect that Slack decided that i…….
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