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Apple alerts journalists, activists about state-sponsored hacking attempts after NSO Group suit

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On the same day Apple announced a lawsuit against Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group for developing hacking tools to help breach iOS technology, the company was notifying potential targets of those exploits. El Faro, a news organization in San Salvador, El Salvador, reported late Tuesday that 12 of its staff members received notices from the company, which warned that that “Apple believes you are being targeted by state-sponsored attackers who are trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID.” The company also sent notices to four others in San Salvador who are “leaders of Civil Society organizations and opposition political parties,” the news organization reported. Notices were also sent to six Thai activists and researchers critical of the government there, Reuters reported. NSO Group develops software designed to allow access to target devices through various bugs in Apple’s technology. A company spokesperson told CyberScoop Tuesday that its […]

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Apple Sues NSO Group

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Piling more on NSO Group’s legal troubles, Apple is suing it:

The complaint provides new information on how NSO Group infected victims’ devices with its Pegasus spyware. To prevent further abuse and harm to its users, Apple is also seeking a permanent injunction to ban NSO Group from using any Apple software, services, or devices.

NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware is favored by totalitarian governments around the world, who use it to hack Apple phones and computers.

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Apple’s legal complaint provides new information on NSO Group’s FORCEDENTRY, an exploit for a now-patched vulnerability previously used to break into a victim’s Apple device and install the latest version of NSO Group’s spyware product, Pegasus. The exploit was originally identified by the Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto. …

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Apple sues NSO Group, spyware vendor known for helping governments hack critics

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Apple is suing Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group “to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple users,” the company announced Tuesday. The technology company is seeking to permanently ban NSO Group from using any Apple software, services or devices amid reports that the firm sells technology that makes it possible for governments to hack individual devices to spy on journalists, dissidents and human rights activists. As part of those efforts NSO Group has developed exploits capable of subverting Apple’s security controls, requiring “thousands of hours to investigate the attacks, identify the harm, diagnose the extent of the impact and exploitation, and develop and deploy the necessary repairs and patches to ensure that Apple servers,” the suit says.  NSO Group did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday. “State-sponsored actors like the NSO Group spend millions of dollars on sophisticated surveillance technologies without effective accountability,” […]

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Threats to ICS and industrial enterprises in 2022

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In recent years, we have observed various trends in the changing threat landscape for industrial enterprises. We can say with high confidence that many of these trends will not only continue, but gain new traction in the coming year. Continue reading Threats to ICS and industrial enterprises in 2022→

The six most common threats against the device that knows you best

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What is the most intimate relationship in your life—aside from your partner, your children or your parents? For many of us, it’s our mobile phone. It’s the last thing we see before sleep, and it’s usually the first thing in our hands each morning… Continue reading The six most common threats against the device that knows you best→

Watch out as new PhoneSpy spyware hits Android devices

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By Deeba Ahmed
According to researchers, the all new PhoneSpy spyware can infiltrate Android handsets and is spread through malicious applications.
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Spyware providers are flocking to international arms fairs to sell to NATO foes

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European and Middle Eastern spyware and surveillance firms are marketing intrusion software to adversaries of the U.S., its intelligence allies and NATO, Atlantic Council research published Monday reveals. Looking at more than 200 companies that attended international arms fairs in the past two decades, researchers found that 85% of companies likely selling interception or intrusion technologies marketed these capabilities to governments outside their home country — even when no intelligence relationship existed. Five companies, including Israel-based Cellebrite and Sweden-based Micro Systemation AB, marketed those capabilities to U.S. and NATO adversaries. Neither company immediately responded to requests for comment. The findings coincide with an explosion of surveillance vendors attending international arms trade shows, including the heavily attended Milipol France and the U.K. -based Security and Policing Home Office.  The report underscores growing concerns about the threat that spyware companies pose to the United States and its allies. U.S. and European leaders have […]

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Commerce Department blacklists controversial spyware company NSO Group

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The Commerce Department Wednesday added two Israeli spyware companies, NSO Group and Candiru, to its entity list of companies that pose a national security and foreign policy risk to the United States. The designation accuses both NSO Group and Candiru of having “developed and supplied spyware to foreign governments that used this tool to maliciously target government officials, journalists, business people, activists, academics, and embassy workers.” Inclusion on the list enacts stringent licensing requirements for exports to designated companies from U.S. businesses. Companies previously included on the list include Chinese firm Huawei, which the U.S. government has flagged as posing a risk to Americans’ data. Also added to the entity list Wednesday were Russia-based Positive Technologies and Singapore-based Computer Security Initiative. The Commerce Department accused the two companies of trafficking “cyber exploits used to gain access to information systems, threatening the privacy and security of individuals and organizations worldwide.” The […]

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