Tracking & Law Enforcement
Amnesty International publishes technical details on zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by Cellebrite’s mobile forensic tools to spy on a Serbian student activist.
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Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts used by Chinese threat actors, including ones leveraged for the development of spying tools.
Mobile & Wireless
The Italian government denied it hacked seven cellphones with military-grade surveillance technology from Paragon Solutions.
Malware & Threats
The FireScam Android infostealer monitors app notifications and harvests credentials and financial data and sends it to a Firebase database.
Government
Israeli forensics firm Cellebrite has been linked to an Android zero-day used to secretly install spyware on Serbian journalists' phones.
Malware & Threats
Lookout details EagleMsgSpy, a surveillance tool used by Chinese law enforcement to collect data from Android devices.
Mobile & Wireless
A Thai court dismissed a lawsuit brought by Jatupat Boonpattararaksa which alleged spyware made by NSO Group was used to hack his phone.
Malware & Threats
The Chinese APT behind the LightSpy iOS backdoor has expanded its toolset with DeepData, a modular Windows-based surveillance framework.
Mobile & Wireless
A newer version of the LightSpy malware for iOS includes over a dozen new plugins, many with destructive capabilities.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Sanctions target five individuals linked to Intellexa Consortium as the US government expands its crackdown on commercial spyware merchants.
Nation-State
Recorded Future observes renewed Predator spyware activity on fresh infrastructure after a drop caused by US sanctions.
Malware & Threats
Five Android applications containing the Mandrake spyware have been downloaded over 32,000 times from Google Play since 2022.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
The judge with Spain’s National Court said there is reason to believe that the new information provided by France can “allow the investigations to...
Government
More than 60 of the Adobe, Google, Android, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple zero-days that have come to light since 2016 attributed to spyware vendors.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Officials said the visa restriction policy can apply to citizens of any country found to have misused or facilitated the malign use of spyware
Mobile & Wireless
Pegasus spyware from NSO Group was used in Jordan to hack the cellphones of journalists, lawyers, human rights and political activists.
Data Protection
iVerify, a seed-stage startup spun out of Trail of Bits, ships a mobile threat hunting platform to neutralize iOS and Android zero-days.
Privacy & Compliance
France and the UK are calling for greater regulation of commercial surveillance software in the wake of recent Pegasus and Predator spyware scandals.
Malware & Threats
A threat actor targets Israelis with spyware masquerading as an Android application for receiving rocket alerts.
Mobile & Wireless
The October 2023 security update for Android patches two vulnerabilities exploited in attacks, both likely linked to spyware vendors.
Supply Chain Security
The hackers exfiltrated data from Salesforce instances of Klue customers, such as Huntress and Recorded Future.
Data Breaches
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Artificial Intelligence
French President Emmanuel Macron urged the world’s wealthy democracies to work together on regulating advanced AI systems.
Malware & Threats
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