IT Sec News updates – Spyware Attacks

WIRED

Suspected Russian hackers have compromised a series of websites to utilize sophisticated spyware exploits that are eerily similar to those created …

CyberScoop

The attack campaigns show how spyware tech companies have become more akin to nation-state threat actors.

TechCrunch

Google said the findings were an example of how exploits developed by spyware makers can end up in the hands of “dangerous threat actors.”

SecurityWeek

Google publishes evidence showing identical or striking similarities between exploits used by Russia's APT29 and commercial spyware vendors.

TechTarget

A new report from Google TAG suggests that Russia's APT29 is using vulnerability exploits first developed from spyware vendors to target Mongolian …

The Register

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has spotted a disturbing similarity in attack tactics used by commercial spyware vendors and Russia-linked attack …

Bleeping Computer

The Russian state-sponsored APT29 hacking group has been observed using the same iOS and Android exploits created by commercial spyware vendors in …

PCMag

Google spots Russian state-sponsored hacking group Cozy Bear using attacks that we'd normally only see from commercial spyware firms NSO Group and …

The Cyber Express

… spyware companies NSO Group and Intellexa, raising concerns about the spread of commercial spyware into the hands of state-backed threat actors.

Ars Technica

Critics of spyware and exploit sellers have long warned that the advanced hacking sold by commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) represents a …