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WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart has said that findings from the new investigation into NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware coincide with what the app learned about an attack on its users in 2019. Cathcart also questioned NSO’s claim that a list of thousands of phone numbers central to the investigation is an exaggeration,… Read more.
Several members of political opposition groups in Poland have produced evidence that they were hacked by Pegasus spyware, raising alarming questions about the Polish government’s use of the software. In both cases, traces of Pegasus spyware were found on the targets’ devices. a threat to “the rules-based international order”.
The Israeli-based company—known for its Pegasus spyware that has been used to target journalists, politicians, and executives all over the world—was blacklisted by the United States government in November 2021. Interestingly enough, there is a much smaller vendor who sells a nearly identical spyware tool to government clients, named QuaDream.
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In the meeting, it confirmed that the BKA bought Pegasus software from NSO Group in 2019. German news outlet Deutsche Welle (DW) notes that the federal government held a closed-door session with the parliamentary Interior Committee of the Bundestag. The agency made the purchase in "the utmost secrecy" against the.
The numbers on the list were singled out for possible surveillance by countries who are clients of NSO, the report states, which markets its spyware to governments to track potential terrorists and criminals. It’s not the first time NSO’s Pegasus spyware has been accused of being part of a larger surveillance campaign.
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It can help protect the network from various attacks, including viruses, worms, spyware, and ransomware. Digital Publishing / November 28, 2019. Therefore, educational institutions should invest in firewalls, intrusion detection, and virus and malware protection systems. Update Systems Regularly. Digital Publishing / February 8, 2021.
All these issues are the purview of Will Cathcart, who took over WhatsApp in March 2019. In some of the stories around spyware companies , the most worrying version of this is where they get full access to your phone. The Verge’s Alex Heath has a nice technical overview of how this works.). Are backups part of that story?
Dave Bittner: [00:01:51] From the CyberWire studios at DataTribe, I'm Dave Bittner with your CyberWire summary for Monday, July 22, 2019. Reports suggest that smishing is one possible attack vector for the spyware. The CyberWire Daily podcast delivers the day's cyber security news into a concise format. Pegasus is pricey.
Dave Bittner: [00:01:51] From the CyberWire studios at DataTribe, I'm Dave Bittner with your CyberWire summary for Monday, July 22, 2019. Reports suggest that smishing is one possible attack vector for the spyware. The CyberWire Daily podcast delivers the day's cyber security news into a concise format. Pegasus is pricey.
Dave Bittner: [00:01:51] From the CyberWire studios at DataTribe, I'm Dave Bittner with your CyberWire summary for Monday, July 22, 2019. Reports suggest that smishing is one possible attack vector for the spyware. The CyberWire Daily podcast delivers the day's cyber security news into a concise format. Pegasus is pricey.
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Scott Morton, hailed in a 2019 article in the New Republic as an “antitrust crusader,” said she began consulting for Amazon in the last year, while her work for Apple dates back several years. Facebook is accusing the spyware maker of creating accounts to send malware to mobile phones of 1,400 people to snoop on them. Go surfing.
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