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New Android Spyware Tools Emerge in Widespread Surveillance Campaign
Researchers have uncovered a surveillance campaign, dating back to at least 2013, which has used a slew of Android surveillanceware tools to spy on the…
NSO Group Impersonated Facebook To Help Clients Hack Targets
Infamous Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group created a web domain that looked as if it belonged to Facebook’s security team to entice targets to click…
Airplane Hack Exposes Weaknesses of Alert and Avoidance Systems
The aircraft safety system known as the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) can be coerced into sending an airplane on a mid-air rollercoaster…
Mysterious Hacker Group Eavesdrops On Corporate Email And FTP Traffic
Since at least early December 2019, a mysterious hacker group has been taking over DrayTek enterprise routers to eavesdrop on FTP and email traffic inside…
Libya-based hackers using coronavirus pandemic to spread mobile surveillance malware
The drastic spread of coronavirus across the world has not stopped cybercriminals from exploiting fear to hack into devices. For months now, cybercriminals have used…
Malware Steals Data By Adjusting Screen Brightness
A security researcher has discovered a novel way to steal data from a PC that isn’t connected to a network (air-gapped) by manipulating the brightness…
Surveillance Kits Company Slaps Made In America Sticker On Gear, Selling It To The US Government
Staff was cuffed in a police raid on Thursday at the offices of US surveillance equipment vendor Aventura Technologies. The workers are now facing criminal…
King iPhone Hacker NSO Group Robbed By Employee — Spyware On Dark Web Sale For $50 Million, Israel Claims
As well as becoming something of a bête noire of privacy and human rights activists, Israel’s NSO Group has established itself as one of the…