NSO Group
NSO Group and Its ‘MMS Fingerprint’ Attack
Buried among the piles of legal documents that form WhatsApp’s five-year-old lawsuit against NSO Group is a line in a contract that exposes a mobile network attack dubbed “MMS Fingerprint,” a tactic ...
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US Uses Visa Restrictions in Struggle Against Spyware
The United States will impose visa restrictions on foreign individuals who have been involving the misuse of spyware, the latest effort by the Biden Administration to address the dangers of the commercial ...
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‘BLASTPASS’ iPhone Exploit — Apple Asleep at the Switch
Richi Jennings | | Apple, BLASTPASS, Citizen Lab, FaceTime, FaceTime bug, imessage, ios, iPhone, NSO, NSO Group, Pegasus, Pegasus Spyware, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
Zero click, zero day, zero clue: Yet another iOS zero-day lets NSO’s Pegasus “mercenary spyware” cause chaos ...
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The Ethics of Selling Hacker Tools
With Indiana Jones about to enter the space race in the Dial of Destiny, I am reminded of the great Tom Lehrer’s 1965 song about former Nazi scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun’s ...
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Hacking Google: Lessons From the Security Team, Part One
Cybersecurity is a battle that all organizations must fight, and there is really no point in doing it alone. Sharing information – the latest attack vectors, shifts in tactics, new-found defenses – ...
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NSO Group Fires CEO — and 100 Staff — in Spyware ‘Streamlining’
Richi Jennings | | NATO, NSO, NSO Group, Out of the laid off some will become whistleblowers, Pegasus, Pegasus Spyware, SB Blogwatch, Shalev Hulio, spyware
NSO, notorious producer of the Pegasus nation-state spyware, is struggling. So it’s dumped its CEO, Shalev Hulio, and around 100 employees ...
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US Gov’t Flip-Flops on NSO Group Sale to L3Harris
Richi Jennings | | Biden administration, CIA, Department of Commerce, FBI, five eyes, L3Harris, NSO, NSO Group, Pegasus, SB Blogwatch, So when is Elon Musk going to make them an offer?, White House
NSO Group, notorious makers of the notorious Pegasus spyware, has been in acquisition talks with huge defense contractor L3Harris ...
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Spanish Govt. Hacked by NSO Pegasus Spyware (or was it?)
Richi Jennings | | Catalonia, NSO Group, Pegasus, SB Blogwatch, Spain, spyware, The status quo is beyond worrisome
The prime minister and the defense minister of Spain were infected with Pegasus. The notorious spyware, sold by NSO Group “only to governments,” caused large amounts of data to be exfiltrated ...
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NSO Group Spied on European Union—on French Orders?
Richi Jennings | | Apple, Didier Reynders, eu, European Union, FORCEDENTRY, france, Imagine thinking a commissioner’s phone contents would give any insight into what’s happening at the commission, iPhone, NSO, NSO Group, Pegasus, Privacy, QuaDream, SB Blogwatch
An espionage attempt was made by an NSO Group customer to hack the phones of senior EU officials ...
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NSO Zero-Click Exploit: Turing-Complete CPU in Image File
Richi Jennings | | Apple, Citizen Lab, FORCEDENTRY, Google Project Zero, imessage, ios, Megalodon, NSO Group, Pegasus, Pegasus Spyware, SB Blogwatch, This kind of capability was previously only seen with top tier cyber powers, Zero Click Attack
Researchers have reverse engineered NSO group’s recent zero-click iPhone exploit. And it’s a doozy ...
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