The fight against commercial spyware misuse is heating up

Though there are organizations out there investigating how commercial spyware is misused to target journalists, human rights defenders and dissidents, the growing market related to the development and sale of this type of software and the exploits used… Continue reading The fight against commercial spyware misuse is heating up

Google Links Over 60 Zero-Days to Commercial Spyware Vendors

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. 
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Google: Governments need to do more to combat commercial spyware

The commercial spyware industry continues to supply highly advanced surveillance capabilities despite efforts to better regulate it.

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US to Roll Out Visa Restrictions on People Who Misuse Spyware to Target Journalists, Activists

Officials said the visa restriction policy can apply to citizens of any country found to have misused or facilitated the malign use of spyware
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At Least 30 Journalists, Lawyers and Activists Hacked With Pegasus in Jordan, Forensic Probe Finds

Pegasus spyware from NSO Group was used in Jordan to hack the cellphones of journalists, lawyers, human rights and political activists.
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An unrelated program links to FFmpeg libraries. can it be spyware? [closed]

Edit: As answered by @u1686_grawity in Superuser: https://superuser.com/a/1827887/1256224 , this behaviour of the program is probably a consequence of its using the CEF, Chrome Embedded Framework, which is shipped with FFmpeg libraries for… Continue reading An unrelated program links to FFmpeg libraries. can it be spyware? [closed]

Kaspersky’s iShutdown Tool Detects Pegasus Spyware on iOS Devices

By Waqas
Kaspersky has recently launched a tool called iShutdown, designed not only to detect the notorious Pegasus spyware but also to identify other malware threats on iOS devices.
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Kaspersky releases utility to detect iOS spyware infections

Kaspersky’s researchers have developed a lightweight method to detect indicators of infection from sophisticated iOS spyware such as NSO Group’s Pegasus, QuaDream’s Reign, and Intellexa’s Predator through analyzing a log file created … Continue reading Kaspersky releases utility to detect iOS spyware infections