Predator Spyware Delivered to iOS, Android Devices via Zero-Days, MitM Attacks

Predator spyware delivered to iPhones and Android devices using iOS and Chrome zero-day vulnerabilities and MitM attacks. 
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Researchers Discover Attempt to Infect Leading Egyptian Opposition Politician With Predator Spyware

Egyptian opposition politician Ahmed Altantawy was targeted with spyware after announcing a presidential bid, security researchers reported
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Zero-Day iOS Exploit Chain Infects Devices with Predator Spyware

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Former Egyptian MP targeted with predator spyware ahead of 2024 presidential run – Therefore, Update your macOS Ventura, iOS, and iPadOS devices NOW, as Apple has released emergency updates to address the flaws.
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Apple fixes 3 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited to compromise iPhones

Apple has released updates for iOS and iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari to fix three zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-41992, CVE-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41993) exploited “against versions of iOS before iOS 16.7.” Bill Marczak of The Citize… Continue reading Apple fixes 3 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited to compromise iPhones

Apple Patches 3 Zero-Days Likely Exploited by Spyware Vendor to Hack iPhones

Apple has patched 3 zero-day vulnerabilities that have likely been exploited by a spyware vendor to hack iPhones.
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BLASTPASS: Government agencies told to secure iPhones against spyware attacks

CISA, the United States’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has ordered federal agencies to patch their iPhones against vulnerabilities that can be used as part of a zero-click attack to install spyware from the notorious NSO Group.

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Fake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store

Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store.

An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been downloaded from Play roughly 100 times before Google took it down last April after being tipped off by security firm ESET. It was also available in the Samsung app store and on signalplus[.]org, a dedicated website mimicking the official Signal.org. An app calling itself FlyGram, meanwhile, was created by the same threat actor and was available through the same three channels. Google removed it from Play in 2021. Both apps remain available in the Samsung store…

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Zero-Click Exploit in iPhones

Make sure you update your iPhones:

Citizen Lab says two zero-days fixed by Apple today in emergency security updates were actively abused as part of a zero-click exploit chain (dubbed BLASTPASS) to deploy NSO Group’s Pegasus commercial spyware onto fully patched iPhones.

The two bugs, tracked as CVE-2023-41064 and CVE-2023-41061, allowed the attackers to infect a fully-patched iPhone running iOS 16.6 and belonging to a Washington DC-based civil society organization via PassKit attachments containing malicious images.

“We refer to the exploit chain as BLASTPASS. The exploit chain was capable of compromising iPhones running the latest version of iOS (16.6) without any interaction from the victim,” Citizen Lab …

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