Attacks involving Paragon’s Graphite spyware involved a WhatsApp zero-day that could be exploited without any user interaction.
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North Korean Hackers Distributed Android Spyware via Google Play
The North Korea-linked APT37 has been observed targeting Android users with spyware distributed via Google Play.
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Amnesty Reveals Cellebrite Zero-Day Android Exploit on Serbian Student Activist
Amnesty International publishes technical details on zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by Cellebrite’s mobile forensic tools to spy on a Serbian student activist.
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OpenAI Bans ChatGPT Accounts Used by Chinese Group for Spy Tools
OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts used by Chinese threat actors, including ones leveraged for the development of spying tools.
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US Sanctions Intellexa Executives as Surveillance Spyware Crackdown Expands
Sanctions target five individuals linked to Intellexa Consortium as the US government expands its crackdown on commercial spyware merchants.
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Predator Spyware Resurfaces With Fresh Infrastructure
Recorded Future observes renewed Predator spyware activity on fresh infrastructure after a drop caused by US sanctions.
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Thousands Download New Mandrake Android Spyware Version From Google Play
Five Android applications containing the Mandrake spyware have been downloaded over 32,000 times from Google Play since 2022.
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Spain Reopens a Probe Into a Pegasus Spyware Case After a French Request to Work Together
The judge with Spain’s National Court said there is reason to believe that the new information provided by France can “allow the investigations to advance.”
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Google Links Over 60 Zero-Days to Commercial Spyware Vendors
More than 60 of the Adobe, Google, Android, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple zero-days that have come to light since 2016 attributed to spyware vendors.
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US to Roll Out Visa Restrictions on People Who Misuse Spyware to Target Journalists, Activists
Officials said the visa restriction policy can apply to citizens of any country found to have misused or facilitated the malign use of spyware
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