SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2023

The Google Play Store, a widely-trusted source for Android applications, has recently become a battleground for a concerning wave of spyware with ties to China. Operating under the radar, these apps silently collect and transmit sensitive data to servers based in China, posing significant risks to user data security and privacy.

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Network World

AUGUST 25, 2016

To spy on a human rights activist, hackers allegedly connected to a Middle Eastern government used three previously unknown vulnerabilities in Apple’s iOS. The claims -- from research at Toronto-based Citizen Lab and mobile security firm Lookout -- focus on spyware that targeted Ahmed Mansoor, an activist in the United Arab Emirates.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 2, 2023

Kaspersky researchers discovered a previously unknown mobile APT campaign targeting iOS devices. Cold times : At the same time as Kaspersky’s investigation, Russia’s FSB (Federal Security Service) intelligence and security agency has made claims that Apple is working with the NSA. Apple released iOS 15.7

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

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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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

and could hack the Apple iPhone 11. Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. Citizen Lab says this was due to an apparent Apple related exploit. Spyware attacks becoming harder to detect. Spyware attacks becoming harder to detect.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2023

We normalize the use of surveilling and tracking young people through "parentware" or spyware (software which allows someone to see what someone else is doing on their device) and apps which enable the tracking of someone's location. Online safety advice Even though the timing has to be right, you will regain your online privacy and security.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The journalist's iPhone received a command to open the Apple Music app without the victim's knowledge or even touching the phone. The app then connected to a malicious server and downloaded spyware to the phone, listening in on calls and viewing text messages for nearly a year and a half. Read the full Bloomberg article.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

And while we have gained both safety and security as a result of this ability to globally track people and things, we seemed to have lost our true sense of privacy. According to a study by the Ponemon Institute, $14,000 is the average value of the personal data contained on a mobile device. We didn’t even communicate with the devices.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Lionel Litty, Chief Security Architect at Menlo Security, discussed this trend with SecureWorld News: "Despite all the care taken by Google engineers, we continue to see a steady stream of security issues that are exploitable, including many 0-days that are actually exploited.

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Tech Republic

JUNE 7, 2023

A recent report from Kaspersky revealed a zero-click attack method that requires no action from victims to infect iOS devices. The post New zero-click threat targets iPhones and iPads appeared first on TechRepublic.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? And what if that unease was coming from your mobile device. Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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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Vox

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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. We love our mobile apps. Apple makes the phones. Apple’s vertical integration model was fine until it wasn’t.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Whatever Twitter eventually comes to say about the events of July 15th, 2020, when it suffered the most catastrophic security breach in company history , it must be said that the events were set in motion years ago. A successful attack on your system’s servers represents a threat to all of your users’ privacy and data security.”.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

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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