IT Sec News updates – Spyware Attacks

The New York Times

The moves by the Commerce Department against the Europe-based firms is the latest effort to rein in a spyware industry that has spiraled out of …

TechCrunch

The Biden administration put Intellexa and Cytrox, two spyware makers from Greece and Hungary on an economic deny list.

CNBC

The U.S. has blacklisted two European spyware firms that built software to spy on Meta users, politicians, activists, and journalists around the world …

KRMG

Commercial spyware firms already on the Commerce Department's so-called Entity List — essentially making it illegal for U.S. companies to do business …

Bloomberg.com

Spyware is a form of malicious software that intruders use to covertly access victims' mobile phones, stealing data and recording calls and messages.

The Record by Recorded Future

The Commerce Department announced Tuesday that it has blacklisted two manufacturers of spyware, including the company behind Predator, …

Washington Post

The Biden administration on Tuesday added foreign commercial spyware companies Intellexa and Cytrox to a federal “entity list” that prohibits …

CyberScoop

The actions are the first major initiative on spyware since Biden issued an executive order restricting on government use of surveillance …

Axios

The Commerce Department placed spyware vendors Cytrox and Intellexa on a trade blacklist Tuesday after determining that the companies threaten …

The Wall Street Journal

The action is the latest by the Biden administration to attempt to erect rules around the growing and lucrative spyware industry, where firms sell …