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This new spyware named “SpyNote” can read SMS, access camera

Dataconomy

This malicious app poses as a routine operating system update, deceiving users into granting it special access privileges. When this Android package (APK) is installed, it discreetly places the SpyNote malware on the device, gaining access to Accessibility services. Cybercriminals often use these avenues to distribute spyware.

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Operation Triangulation: Could Apple be an NSA agent, Russia asks

Dataconomy

The campaign, which they are calling Operation Triangulation, uses zero-click exploits to infect devices via the iMessage platform. Once infected, the malware runs with root privileges, giving the attacker complete control over the device and user data. The malware then uses a zero-click exploit to gain root privileges on the device.

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How much control should Apple have over your iPhone?

Vox

Some say Apple’s App Store is a monopoly. Apple says it’s just giving customers what they want. Over the next few weeks, we’ll cover what’s happening with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. Apple is facing growing scrutiny for the tight control it has over so much of the mobile-first, app-centric world it created.

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Here’s who Apple and Epic are calling to testify in next week’s trial

The Verge

Next week, Epic Games and Apple will appear in court for a long-anticipated legal battle. Epic argues that Apple unfairly kicked its hit game Fortnite off the App Store last year, exercising an illegal monopoly over the ubiquitous iOS platform. Apple and Epic both filed revised tentative witness lists on April 26th.

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Antitrust investigations aren’t the biggest threat to Facebook’s future

The Verge

And then Google made Chrome, and Microsoft just kept making Internet Explorer, and Microsoft made a series of really bad mobile phones, and Apple made a good one, and within a few years Microsoft was an enterprise software company with a video game console division and it was hard to remember what the whole fuss had been about in the first place.

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Apple's Emergency Patch: What it Means for Organizations

SecureWorld News

The Toronto-based research group works to protect journalists and activists from cyberattacks and spyware. And oftentimes they come across new tech-enabled spying efforts from Israel-based NSO Group, which claims to carefully vet sales of its spyware. Citizen Lab discovers zero-day and zero-click spyware. gif” extension.

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