spyware

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2019
Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance firm NSO

Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance firm NSO and fears its staff may be targeted by the company with its Pegasus spyware. The name NSO Group made the headlines last week after the disclosure of the WhatsApp flaw exploited by the company to remotely install its surveillance software. The Israeli firm is now […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2019
WhatsApp zero-day exploited in targeted attacks to deliver NSO spyware

Facebook fixed a critical zero-day flaw in WhatsApp that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device. Facebook has recently patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568, that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device. WhatsApp did not name the threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2019
Exodus, a government malware that infected innocent victims

Security researchers have found a new government spyware, tracked as Exodus, that was distributed through the Google Play Store. A research conducted by members and associates of Security Without Borders organization along with Motherboard has revealed that government spyware that infected hundreds of people through the official Google Play Store. The malware was tracked as […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2018
Mac users using Exodus cryptocurrency wallet targeted by a small spam campaign

Security researchers at F-Secure have recently uncovered a small spam campaign aimed at delivering spyware to Mac users that use Exodus wallet. Security experts at F-Secure have recently spotted a small spam campaign aimed at Mac users that use Exodus cryptocurrency wallet. The campaign leverages Exodus-themed phishing messages using an attachment named “Exodus-MacOS-1.64.1-update.zip.”  The messages were […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2018
NSO mobile Pegasus Spyware used in operations in 45 countries

A new report published by Citizen Lab revealed that the NSO Pegasus spyware was used against targets across 45 countries worldwide. A new investigation of the Citizen Lab revealed that the powerful Pegasus mobile spyware was used against targets across 45 countries around the world over the last two years. Pegasus is a surveillance malware developed by the Israeli surveillance NSO Group that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2018
Parental control spyware app Family Orbit hacked, pictures of hundreds of monitored children were exposed

The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online. The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, the pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online only protected by a password. According to Motherboard that […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2018
Amnesty International employee targeted with NSO group surveillance malware

An employee at Amnesty International has been targeted with Israeli surveillance malware, the news was revealed by the human rights group. Amnesty International revealed that one of its employees was targeted with a surveillance malware developed by an Israeli firm. The human rights group published a report that provides details on the attack against its employee. The hacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2018
A new sophisticated version of the AZORult Spyware appeared in the wild

A new sophisticated version of the AZORult Spyware was spotted in the wild, it was involved in a large email campaign on July 18 Malware researchers at Proofpoint spotted a new version of the AZORult Spyware in the wild, it was involved in a large email campaign on July 18, just 24 hours it appeared […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2018
New Rakhni variant could infect systems with either a ransomware or a miner

Security researchers at  Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new strain of the Rakhni malware that could infect systems with either a ransomware or a cryptocurrency miner. Experts from Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new strain of the Rakhni ransomware family that could infect systems with either a ransomware or a cryptocurrency miner depending upon their configurations. “Way back in 2013 our malware analysts […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2018
InvisiMole Spyware is a powerful malware that went undetected for at least five years

Malware researchers from ESET have spotted a new sophisticated piece of spyware, tracked as InvisiMole, used in targeted attacks in Russia and Ukraine in the last five years. Experts still haven’t attributed the malware to any threat actor, InvisiMole could be a nation-state malware developed for cyber espionage purpose or the result of a development […]