Published on: 2025-04-24 18:41:02
The governments of Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan were among several countries accused of being behind the 2019 hacking campaign that targeted more than 1,200 WhatsApp users with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to a lawyer working for the Israeli spyware maker. During a hearing in the lawsuit between WhatsApp and NSO Group last Thursday, NSO Group’s lawyer Joe Akrotirianakis specifically named the three governments as spyware-using customers, according to a transcript of the hearin
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The governments of Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan, among others, were behind the 2019 hacking campaign that targeted more than 1,200 WhatsApp users with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to a lawyer working for the Israeli spyware maker. During a hearing in the lawsuit between WhatsApp and NSO Group last Thursday, NSO Group’s lawyer Joe Akrotirianakis specifically named the three governments as the spyware-using customers, according to a transcript of the hearing obtained by TechCrun
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 10:25:08
NSO Group’s notorious spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 different countries during a 2019 hacking campaign, according to a new court document. The document was published on Friday as part of the lawsuit that Meta-owned WhatsApp filed against NSO Group in 2019, accusing the surveillance tech maker of exploiting a vulnerability in the chat app to target hundreds of users, including more than 100 human rights activists, journalists, and “other members of civil society.”
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 02:21:58
Meta warned Windows users to update the WhatsApp messaging app to the latest version to patch a vulnerability that can let attackers execute malicious code on their devices. Described as a spoofing issue and tracked as CVE-2025-30401, this security flaw can be exploited by attackers by sending maliciously crafted files with altered file types to potential targets. Meta says the vulnerability impacted all WhatsApp versions and has been fixed with the release of WhatsApp 2.2450.6. "A spoofing i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 17:48:06
The world’s most famous magician, Harry Houdini, was known as a celebrity conjurer, a practitioner of escape magic, and a master illusionist. He’s had an enduring legacy on the magical arts since his untimely demise on Halloween Day, 1926. That’s why October 31st is known in magical circles as “National Magic Day” or simply “Houdini Day.” In honor of this legendary magician, we’re exploring the effect magic, and even Houdini, has had in the realms of intelligence and espionage. Harry Houdini, c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 21:24:45
Consumer-grade phone surveillance apps aren’t only intended to stay stealthy; some of these apps are also making it increasingly difficult to remove them. TechCrunch has identified a stealthy phone monitoring app for Android that requires a password to uninstall, effectively blocking Android device owners from being able to remove the app. The spyware app, which we’re not naming so as to not give it any publicity, relies on whoever is planting the app to enable a built-in feature in Android th
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On Thursday, Amnesty International published a new report detailing attempted hacks against two Serbian journalists, allegedly carried out with NSO Group’s spyware Pegasus. The two journalists, who work for the Serbia-based Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), received suspicious text messages including a link — basically a phishing attack, according to the nonprofit. In one case, Amnesty said its researchers were able to click on the link in a safe environment and see that it led to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 13:30:07
A consumer-grade spyware operation called SpyX was hit by a data breach last year, TechCrunch has learned. The breach reveals that SpyX and two other related mobile apps had records on almost two million people at the time of the breach, including thousands of Apple users. The data breach dates back to June 2024 but has not been previously reported, and there is no indication that SpyX’s operators ever notified its customers or those targeted by the spyware. The SpyX family of mobile spyware i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 13:02:20
WhatsApp has patched a zero-click, zero-day vulnerability used to install Paragon's Graphite spyware following reports from security researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab. The company addressed the attack vector late last year "without the need for a client-side fix" and decided not to assign a CVE-ID after "reviewing the CVE guidelines published by MITRE, and [its] own internal policies." "WhatsApp has disrupted a spyware campaign by Paragon that targeted a number of users in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 09:01:00
The governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions, according to a new technical report by a renowned digital security lab. On Wednesday, The Citizen Lab, a group of academics and security researchers housed at the University of Toronto that has investigated the spyware industry for more than a decade, published a report about the Israeli-founded surveillance startup, identifying the six governments as “su
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 05:01:00
The governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions, according to a new technical report by a renowned digital security lab. On Wednesday, The Citizen Lab, a group of academics and security researchers housed at the University of Toronto that has investigated the spyware industry for more than a decade, published a report about the Israeli-founded surveillance startup, identifying the six governments as “su
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 21:27:11
Human resources software startup Rippling sued competitor Deel in federal district court on Monday, claiming that "Deel cultivated a spy" to orchestrate a trade-secret theft. The employee met with Deel executives and passed internal Rippling records to a reporter, according to San Francisco-based Rippling's complaint in the U.S. District Court for California's Northern District. Rippling claimed in the filing Deel violated the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and misappr
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Mark Klein, the former AT&T employee who helped expose the fact that the National Security Agency was spying on vast amounts of internet traffic in the U.S. during the mid-2000s, died in Oakland, California, on March 8 at the age of 79, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Klein’s cause of death was pancreatic cancer. Klein was an internet technician for AT&T in San Francisco and had recently retired when he read a New York Times article in late 2005 about mass surveillance of Ameri
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Mark Klein, the former AT&T employee who helped expose the fact that the National Security Agency was spying on vast amounts of internet traffic in the U.S. during the mid-2000s, has died, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Klein’s cause of death was not released. Klein was an internet technician for AT&T in San Francisco and had recently retired when he read a New York Times article in late 2005 about mass surveillance of Americans being conducted by the NSA. The article didn’t c
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EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans. Mark didn’t set out to change the world. For 22 years, he was a telecommunications technician for AT&T, most of that in San Francisco. But he always had a strong sense of right and wrong and a commitment to privacy. Mark not only saw how it works, he had the documents to prov
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A new Android spyware named 'KoSpy' is linked to North Korean threat actors who have infiltrated Google Play and third-party app store APKPure through at least five malicious apps. According to Lookout researchers, the spyware is attributed to the North Korean threat group APT37 (aka 'ScarCruft'). The campaign has been active since March 2022, with the threat actors actively developing the malware based on newer samples. The spyware campaign primarily targets Korean and English-speaking users
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In brief: Malware making its way past Google's checks and onto the Play Store isn't a new phenomenon, yet it keeps happening. The latest incident involved spyware that was uploaded to the Android app store by a group of hackers believed to be linked to the North Korean regime. Lookout Threat Lab researchers discovered the spyware, dubbed KoSpy, attributing it with medium confidence to North Korean
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A group of hackers with links to the North Korean regime uploaded Android spyware onto the Google Play app store and were able to trick some people into downloading it, according to cybersecurity firm Lookout. In a report published on Wednesday, and exclusively shared with TechCrunch ahead of time, Lookout details an espionage campaign involving several different samples of an Android spyware it calls KoSpy, which the company attributes with “high confidence” to the North Korean government. At
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 22:05:32
A little-known phone surveillance operation called Spyzie has compromised more than half a million Android devices and thousands of iPhones and iPads, according to data shared by a security researcher. Most of the affected device owners, who are unknown, are likely unaware that their phone data has been compromised. The security researcher told TechCrunch that Spyzie is vulnerable to the same bug as Cocospy and Spyic, two near-identical but differently branded stalkerware apps that share the s
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A peek into a possible future of Python in the browser My Python code was too slow, so I made it faster with Python. For some definition of “Python”. I spent last week in the gorgeous Aosta Valley with Antonio Cuni from Anaconda (middle) and Hood Chatham from Cloudflare (left). I was the only one without a Ph.D. degree, but they were both kind enough to act as if they didn’t notice. We managed to get SPy to run in the Web browser, unbreak Pyodide on iOS, as well as make a SPy-accelerated demo
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A peek into a possible future of Python in the browser My Python code was too slow, so I made it faster with Python. For some definition of “Python”. I spent last week in the gorgeous Aosta Valley with Antonio Cuni from Anaconda (middle) and Hood Chatham from Cloudflare (left). I was the only one without a Ph.D. degree, but they were both kind enough to act as if they didn’t notice. We managed to get SPy to run in the Web browser, unbreak Pyodide on iOS, as well as make a SPy-accelerated demo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 18:05:00
A security vulnerability in a pair of phone-monitoring apps is exposing the personal data of millions of people who have the apps unwittingly installed on their devices, according to a security researcher who found the flaw. The bug allows anyone to access the personal data — messages, photos, call logs, and more — exfiltrated from any phone or tablet compromised by Cocospy and Spyic, two differently branded mobile stalkerware apps that share largely the same source code. The bug also exposes t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 18:55:38
NSO’s Pegasus spyware is one of the most frightening privacy threats an iPhone owner can face. Without you taking any action at all, it’s able to completely take over your phone, accessing almost all of the personal data stored on it, and some versions have been able to activate cameras and microphones. Pegasus exploits zero-day vulnerabilities – security holes Apple doesn’t yet know about – but the iPhone maker has another way to fight back … Apple aims to detect Pegasus spyware iOS includes
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