Security News > 2021 > December > More on NSO Group and Cytrox: Two Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturers
2021-12-20 15:17
Citizen Lab published another report on the spyware used against two Egyptian nationals.
The other was hacked both by Pegasus and by the spyware from another cyberweapons arms manufacturer: Cytrox.
We haven't heard a lot about Cytrox and its Predator spyware.
We conducted Internet scanning for Predator spyware servers and found likely Predator customers in Armenia, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Madagascar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Serbia.
Cytrox was reported to be part of Intellexa, the so-called "Star Alliance of spyware," which was formed to compete with NSO Group, and which describes itself as "EU-based and regulated, with six sites and R&D labs throughout Europe."
By the way, this vulnerability was patched on 13 Sep 2021 in iOS 14.8.