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Yet More Stalkerware Leaks Secret Data: ‘Catwatchful’ is Latest Nasty App

Content warning: Domestic abuse, stalking, controlling behavior, Schadenfreude, irony ...

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces the plan to make Facebook more private at Facebook’s Developer Conference on April 30, 2019

Meta’s Secret Spyware: ‘Local Mess’ Hack Tracks You Across the Web

Farcebok: Zuckerberg’s privacy pledge revealed as ineffectual ...

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Suspected North Korea Group Targets Android Devices with Spyware

Jeffrey Burt | March 13, 2025 | android spyware, mobile cyberattack, North Korean cyber espionage

A North Korea-backed threat group, APT37, disguised KoSpy as utility apps in Google Play to infect Android devices, using the spyware for such activities as gathering sensitive information, tracking locations, capturing screenshots, ...

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Allstate Violates Drivers’ Privacy, Texas AG Alleges

Don’t Mess With Texas Privacy: “We will hold all these companies accountable,” rants state attorney general Ken Paxton (pictured) ...

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Spoofed Rocket Alert App Targets Israeli Android Users with Spyware

Jeffrey Burt | October 18, 2023 | android spyware, domain impersonation, Hamas, israel

As violence and protests spread in the chaotic war between Israel and Hamas, evidence of the parallel battle going on in cyberspace continue to emerge. It started almost immediately after the initial ...

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A phone home screen shows Signal and Telegram app icons

BadBazaar: Chinese Spyware Shams Signal, Telegram Apps

Richi Jennings | August 31, 2023 | android, android spyware, APT15, BadBazaar, Flygram, google, Google Play Incompetence, Google Play Store, GREF, Lukas Stefanko, Nickel, Samsung, SB Blogwatch, signal, Signal Plus Messenger, spyware, Telegram, Vixen Panda

After sneaking into Google and Samsung app stores, “GREF” APT targets Uyghurs and other PRC minorities ...

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Biden Admin. Adds ‘Mercenary Spyware’ Firms to Ban List

Richi Jennings | July 19, 2023 | android spyware, Biden administration, Commerce Department, Cytrox, Department of Commerce, Entity List, eu, Europe, European Union, European Union (EU), Intellexa, iOS spyware, Malware Spyware, Predator spyware, SB Blogwatch, spyware

European cousins Intellexa and Cytrox essentially banned by Commerce Dept. — Predator/ALIEN not welcome in U.S ...

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Ironic: LetMeSpy Spyware Hackers Were Hacked (by Hackers)

Richi Jennings | June 28, 2023 | android spyware, cyberstalking, Data breach, Data Leaks, iOS spyware, LetMeSpy, maia arson crimew, Malware Spyware, Parental Control, parental controls, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, spyware, Stalkerware, Stalking, Stalkware

Content warning: Abuse, stalking, controlling behavior, Schadenfreude, irony, doxxing ...

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‘Predator’ — Nasty Android Spyware Revealed

Richi Jennings | May 30, 2023 | android spyware, Cisco Talos, Cytrox, Intellexa, iOS spyware, nation-state, SB Blogwatch, spyware, Talos

Intellexa mercenary spyware chains five unpatched bugs—plus ‘Alien’ technology ...

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Google Finally Pulls Chinese Apps Stealing Personal Data

Richi Jennings | November 25, 2020 | android, android spyware, Baidu, google, SB Blogwatch

After six million downloads, two spyware Baidu apps have been removed from the Play Store. What took Google so long? ...

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On