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In March 2019, researchers with a group called Security Without Borders - a non-profit that often investigates threats against dissidents and human rights defenders - identified more than 20 government spyware apps squatting in plain sight, pretending to be harmless, vanilla apps on Google's Play store. Those apps - which were just a decoy through which government spyware called Exodus was installed on targets' phones - were anything but harmless.
A New York Times reporter apparently was targeted with spyware developed by the NSO Group as part of a campaign that may be linked to a Saudi Arabia group, which has previously been accused of hacking attempts against dissidents, journalists and human rights lawyers, according to the think tank Citizen Lab. The spyware used against the Times reporter likely was Israel-based NSO Group's Pegasus, which has been used by governments around the world to target journalists, activists and protestors, according to the new Citizen Lab report.
TEL AVIV, Israel - An Israeli court heard a case Thursday calling for restrictions to be slapped on NSO Group, an Israeli company that makes surveillance software that is said to have been used to target journalists and dissidents around the world. The case, brought by Amnesty International, calls for Israel to revoke the spyware firm's export license, preventing it from selling its contentious product abroad, particularly to regimes that could use it for malicious purposes.
Google has pulled three malicious apps from Google Play, one of which exploits a recently patched kernel privilege escalation bug in Android to install the app aimed at spying on users. The Camero app would download a DEX file from a C&C, which would then download the callCam APK file and use the CVE-2019-2215 exploit to root the device, install the app and launch it without any user interaction or the user's knowledge.
The infrastructure behind a remote access tool (RAT) allowing full remote takeover of a victim machine has been dismantled.
The recent controversies surrounding the WhatsApp hacking haven't yet settled, and the world's most popular messaging platform could be in the choppy waters once again. The Hacker News has learned...
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Finally, for the very first time, an encrypted messaging service provider is taking legal action against a private entity that has carried out malicious attacks against its users. Facebook filed a...