Citizen Lab
Volt Typhoon Malware: US Critical Infrastructure Breached
In a recent revelation, the U.S. government disclosed that the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, Volt Typhoon has surreptitiously infiltrated critical infrastructure networks within the country for a staggering five-year period. This embedded ...
More iOS Zero-Days, More Mercenary Spyware — This Time: Cytrox Predator
Apple Scrambled to Fix 3 More CVEs: Egyptian opposition presidential candidate Ahmed Eltantawy targeted “by the government ...
‘BLASTPASS’ iPhone Exploit — Apple Asleep at the Switch
Zero click, zero day, zero clue: Yet another iOS zero-day lets NSO’s Pegasus “mercenary spyware” cause chaos ...
Security Vulnerabilities in Covert CIA Websites
Back in 2018, we learned that covert system of websites that the CIA used for communications was compromised by—at least—China and Iran, and that the blunder caused a bunch of arrests, imprisonments, ...
NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Used against Thailand Pro-Democracy Activists and Leaders
Yet another basic human rights violation, courtesy of NSO Group: Citizen Lab has the details: Key Findings We discovered an extensive espionage campaign targeting Thai pro-democracy protesters, and activists calling for reforms ...
NSO Zero-Click Exploit: Turing-Complete CPU in Image File
Researchers have reverse engineered NSO group’s recent zero-click iPhone exploit. And it’s a doozy ...
iMessage Zero-Click Exploit, Leaked Guntrader Firearms Data, 60 Million Fitness Tracking Records Exposed
The latest on the iMessage Zero-Click exploit that affects Apple iOS, MacOS and WatchOS devices (update your Apple devices now!), the names and home addresses of 111,000 British firearm owners have been ...
NSO Group Hacked
NSO Group, the Israeli cyberweapons arms manufacturer behind the Pegasus spyware — used by authoritarian regimes around the world to spy on dissidents, journalists, human rights workers, and others — was hacked ...
NSO ‘Pegasus’ Hacking Tool Targets Journalists Again
The NSO Group sells hacking paraphernalia to oppressive regimes. Its Pegasus tool set has been caught hacking journalists ...
WeChat is Surveilling International User Files to Strengthen China’s National Censorship Model
Chinese social media giant WeChat is screening documents and images shared by overseas users, according to researchers from the Citizen Lab of the University of Toronto. As of late 2019, the messaging ...
