IT Sec News updates – Spyware Attacks

TechCrunch

The shutdown of the spyware's back-end server marks the end of Spyhide and Oospy's ability to operate — for now.

Spiegel

The Intellexa Alliance is the name of the shady group of European companies that supplies dictators and despots with cyberweapons. The mass spyware …

Barron’s

European companies sold powerful spyware to authoritarian regimes which have used it against dissenters, a group of investigative media said …

Haaretz

A Global Investigation Into the Israeli Predator Spyware Firm Has Revealed Documents Showing the Former Prime Minister Was Invited to Pitch a Deal …

Yahoo News

… been actively exploited to target individuals with spyware, according to researchers at Google and Citizen Lab.

Dark Reading

The Predator spyware was distributed by dropping malicious links inside typosquatted facsimiles of news websites.

Haaretz

Key Takeaways From 'Predator Files' Investigation: How Intellexa's Spyware Was Sold to Egyptian Intel and Pitched to Libyan Warlord Haftar, …

The Times of Israel

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert worked for an Israeli company that creates attack spyware and which is blacklisted by the US for its alleged use …

SC Magazine

Recently identified Android spyware DragonEgg previously linked to Chinese state-sponsored threat operation APT41 has been associated with the iOS …

Amnesty International

… spyware. This spyware, and its rebranded variants, can access unchecked amounts of data on devices. It cannot, at present, be independently …