Collaborate Disseminate
The operations are just the latest example of the proliferation of sophisticated spyware among private vendors, Google says.
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Google has linked several zero-day vulnerabilities used last year to target Android and iOS devices to commercial spyware vendors.
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The new guidelines ban government agencies from using spyware deemed to pose a national security threat to the United States.
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The New York Times is reporting that a US citizen’s phone was hacked by the Predator spyware.
A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by the Greek national intelligence service and hacked with a powerful cyberespionage tool, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and officials with knowledge of the case.
The disclosure is the first known case of an American citizen being targeted in a European Union country by the advanced snooping technology, the use of which has been the subject of a widening scandal in Greece. It demonstrates that the illicit use of spyware is spreading beyond use by authoritarian governments against opposition figures and journalists, and has begun to creep into European democracies, even ensnaring a foreign national working for a major global corporation…
From Brian Krebs:
A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While the defendant in this case hasn’t yet been named publicly, the NetWire website has been leaking information about the likely true identity and location of its owner for the past 11 years.
The article details the mistakes that led to the person’s address…
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The New York Office of the Attorney General has fined Patrick Hinchy and 16 of his companies for illegally promoting spyware.
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Is there a way to configure your MacOS to prevent software from being able to "watch" your user interface?
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The Biden administration previously weighed in on the case between Meta and the spyware maker to recommend the court dismiss the appeal.
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As you can see below, I got these prompts when I startup my Mac. What are these programs with people’s names "Joel Rennich" and "Le Liu" on my Mac.
How Can I find and get rid of them?
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