It’s Amateur Hour in the World of Spyware and Victims Will Pay the Price
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Hacking Team Hacker Phineas Fisher Has Gotten Away With It
The Weakest Link is Motherboard’s third, annual theme week dedicated to the future of hacking and cybersecurity. Follow along …
Spyware campaign targets Turkish dissidents, research shows
Spyware made by a notorious vendor has been used to target critics of the Turkish government via Twitter, according to digital rights …
Turkey’s Government Tried to Hack Hundreds of Protesters Over Twitter, Researchers Say
Hackers—apparently working for the Turkish government— attempted to infect a large number of Turkish dissidents and protesters by …
State-sponsored hacking is one good reason to use the Microsoft Store for your apps
Security has always been one of the main reasons to use the Microsoft Store for your apps, and now the Turkish government has provided …
ISPs Caught Injecting Cryptocurrency Miners and Spyware In Some Countries
Governments in Turkey and Syria have been caught hijacking local internet users’ connections to secretly inject surveillance malware, while …
Microsoft’s Windows Defender ATP Catches Law Enforcement Spyware
Microsoft has announced that its Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is good enough to pick up on malware created by …
Microsoft Defender can now spot Government-sponsored spyware
While Windows 10 has been described as spyware by many, Microsoft is pretty dedicated to being the only one having access to your data. To …
Microsoft: Windows Defender can now spot FinFisher government spyware
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ESET’s guide makes it possible to peek into FinFisher
FinFisher, also known as FinSpy, has a history of being used in surveillance campaigns, both against legitimate targets and against …
Researchers Uncover Government-Sponsored Mobile Hacking Group Operating Since 2012
A global mobile espionage campaign collecting a trove of sensitive personal information from victims since at least 2012 has accidentally …
Lebanese Government Hackers Hit Thousands of Victims With Incredibly Simple Campaign
Hackers allegedly working for the government of Lebanon stole hundreds of gigabytes from thousands of victims all over the world, and they …
What is StrongPity2? New spyware takes over for the infamous FinFisher in watering hole operations
Several popular websites and their software have already been found to be targeted by the StrongPity group including CCleaner v 5.34, the …
StrongPity2 spyware replaces FinFisher in MitM campaign – ISP involved?
Continuing our research into FinFisher – the infamous spyware known also as FinSpy and sold to governments and their agencies worldwide …
Hackers Use New Flash Zero-Day Exploit to Distribute FinFisher Spyware
FinSpy—the infamous surveillance malware is back and infecting high-profile targets using a new Adobe Flash zero-day exploit delivered …
Around 7 Countries ISP Maybe Supporting Hackers in the Distribution of FinFisher Spyware
Security experts spotted a new malware campaign of well know Spyware FinFisher also called FinSpy spreading through Internet Service Providers (ISPs). FinSpy comes with extend capabilities such as surveillance through…
ISP involvement suspected in latest FinFisher gov’t spyware campaign
A campaign utilizing a new variant of the government spying software FinFisher has spread, potentially with the help of Internet Service Providers. FinFisher, also known as FinSpy, is a surveillance…
ISPs ‘likely’ helped infect targets of state surveillance
A spying tool known as FinFisher is involved in a seven-country campaign that most likely involves “complicit” internet providers helping to infect targets of surveillance, according to researchers with the cybersecurity firm…
ISPs May Be Helping Hackers to Infect you with FinFisher Spyware
Are you sure the version of WhatsApp, or Skype, or VLC Player installed on your system is legitimate? Security researchers have discovered that legitimate downloads of several popular applications including…
New FinFisher surveillance campaigns: Are internet providers involved?
New surveillance campaigns utilizing FinFisher, infamous spyware known also as FinSpy and sold to governments and their agencies worldwide, are in the wild. Besides featuring technical improvements, some of these…
Are you being watched? FinFisher government spy tool found hiding as WhatsApp and Skype
Legitimate downloads of popular software including WhatsApp, Skype and VLC Player have allegedly being hacked at an internet service provider (ISP) level to spread a highly-advanced form of surveillance software…
Microsoft patches second FinSpy zero-day exploit this year
It’s Microsoft patch time again, which this month sees admins coming face-to-face with 81 CVE-ranked vulnerabilities, 27 rated “critical”, with an interesting zero-day for added excitement. Assessing which of these…
Microsoft Patches 85 Flaws, One Allowed FinFisher Spyware Installation
The attacker compelled Windows user to open the email containing the malicious document or application. Once injected, the code created a process for retrieving an HTA script, which in turn…
Microsoft strangles critical vulnerabilities, including in-the-wild zero-day flaw. Patch now!
Microsoft has once again released a batch of essential security updates for users of its software. One of the flaws (CVE-2017-8759) addressed by Microsoft’s patches is a previously unknown vulnerability…