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. Pradeo, the mobile security company that discovered these malicious apps, has released a report discussing the spyware lurking on the Google Play Store. million users.

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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 or earlier.

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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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The Verge

JULY 23, 2021

Dieter and Alex discuss what this means for the texting platform and how Apple is still in the way of full adoption in the US. Pegasus spyware used to target phones of journalists and activists, investigation finds. The Dish ‘fix’ for the T-Mobile-Sprint merger seems more shortsighted than ever. Apple releases iOS 14.7

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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

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. Google and Apple have these built-in if you have an Android or iPhone. Use good passwords.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

According to a study by the Ponemon Institute, $14,000 is the average value of the personal data contained on a mobile device. Apple has built some smarts into their AirTag and its vast Find My network of devices, but these alerts do not always arrive quick enough to help someone before a stalking escalates into a confrontation or worse.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft have likewise addressed multiple critical browser vulnerabilities and active Zero-Days impacting Safari, Firefox, and Edge respectively this year. Such vulnerabilities can also serve as entry points for malware and spyware, endangering corporate networks.

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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

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. I am a coordinator, the Coalition Against Spyware. In early September 2021.

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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

Among the hacked accounts were President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, the Apple and Uber corporate accounts, and pop star Kanye West. Apple won its court fight against European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager over a record $14.9 The spyware was made by Israel’s NSO Group.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2022

But Apple’s move to crush the market for targeted mobile advertising , coupled with unexpected competition , has put Facebook on the defensive. The fact that NSO Group belongs to a legal and thriving spyware industry is a daily scandal. Biden-era vibe : Europe — and Apple — as tech’s regulators-in-chief.

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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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