Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware"(pluralistic.net)
45 points by samizdis | 9 comments
Pluralistic blog post by Cory Doctorow about an Israeli ad-tech company that served as a delivery system for mercenary spyware.
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An Israeli firm is sending zero-click spyware through online ads(theverge.com)
211 points by drewfax | 88 comments
The Verge news article reporting researchers found an Israeli firm delivering zero-click spyware through targeted online advertising.
Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero-click' spyware(theguardian.com)
317 points by chunkyslink | 140 comments
Guardian article on University of Toronto research finding Israeli firm Discover-Tech's Controlium software uses digital ads to profile users and deliver zero-click spyware.
AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware(citizenlab.ca)
452 points by jcomp | 592 comments
Citizen Lab research report on how Israeli firm Discover-Tech used targeted digital advertising as a delivery pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware.
Netanyahu claims ability to hack any iPhone and plant false evidence(twitter.com)
4 points by gravisultra | 1 comments
A post on X by Daniel Lambert sharing a 60 Minutes clip in which Netanyahu says he can penetrate a smartphone and make someone out to be a monster.
Espionage Against the European Parliament(citizenlab.ca)
381 points by ledoge | 92 comments
Citizen Lab research report finding that a member of the European Parliament committee investigating spyware was hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus.
Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware(twitter.com)
441 points by marc__1 | 231 comments
A post by John Scott-Railton noting malware authors embedded nuclear and bioweapons text in spyware to trigger LLM safety refusals and evade AI security scanners.
Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data(qcontinuum.substack.com)
416 points by qcontinuum1 | 170 comments
A Substack post reporting that 287 Chrome extensions with about 37 million users were found spying on users' browsing data.
US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists(apnews.com)
644 points by 01-_- | 320 comments
AP News article reporting Citizen Lab findings that spyware from US-backed Israeli company Paragon was used to target European journalists, including in Italy.
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From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video](media.ccc.de)
361 points by cookiengineer | 132 comments
Video recording of Matthias Frielingsdorf's 38C3 talk on how commercial spyware like Pegasus and Predator targeting iOS has evolved.
US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp(reuters.com)
501 points by o999 | 167 comments
Reuters link about a US judge ruling NSO Group liable for hacking WhatsApp users, but the page shows a captcha bot-check instead of the article.
WhatsApp forces Pegasus spyware maker to share its secret code(arstechnica.com)
400 points by Tomte | 130 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that a court ordered NSO Group to share Pegasus spyware code with WhatsApp in its lawsuit, beyond just installation information.
4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using advanced exploit(arstechnica.com)
386 points by airstrike | 222 comments
Ars Technica article on Operation Triangulation, a four-year campaign that backdoored iPhones of Kaspersky employees using an exploit abusing a secret hardware feature.
0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt(blog.google)
512 points by mikece | 231 comments
Google Threat Analysis Group blog post describing 0-day exploits used by a commercial surveillance vendor to target users in Egypt, found with Citizen Lab.
Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus(meduza.io)
487 points by Klaster_1 | 305 comments
Meduza feature reporting how attackers infected the phone of a Meduza co-founder with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware.
NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild(citizenlab.ca)
1375 points by ericzawo | 766 comments
Citizen Lab report on BLASTPASS, an NSO Group zero-click, zero-day iPhone exploit chain found in the wild, prompting Apple security updates.