NSO Group

Apple Seeks to Drop Its Lawsuit Against Spyware Maker NSO
Apple wants its three-year-old lawsuit against spyware maker NSO to be dismissed, citing the surveillance software maker's declining dominance of the expanding market and fears that its own threat intelligence could be ...
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Citizen Lab vs. NSO Group, Apple AI and Privacy
Tom Eston | | AI, Apple, Apple AI, Apple Intelligence, canada, Citizen Lab, court, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Human Rights, Information Security, Infosec, lawsuit, NSO Group, Pegasus, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, spyware, technology, Weekly Edition
In episode 334, hosts Tom Eston, Scott Wright, and Kevin Johnson discuss two major topics. First, they explore the ongoing legal battle between Citizen Lab and the Israeli spyware company NSO Group ...

Apple Warns of ‘Mercenary Spyware Attacks’ on iPhone Users
Apple reportedly is alerting iPhone users in 92 countries that they may have been the targets of attacks using “mercenary spyware,” a term that the company is now using in such alerts ...
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NSO Group and Its ‘MMS Fingerprint’ Attack
Buried among the piles of legal documents that form WhatsApp’s five-year-old lawsuit against NSO Group is a line in a contract that exposes a mobile network attack dubbed “MMS Fingerprint,” a tactic ...
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US Uses Visa Restrictions in Struggle Against Spyware
The United States will impose visa restrictions on foreign individuals who have been involving the misuse of spyware, the latest effort by the Biden Administration to address the dangers of the commercial ...
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‘BLASTPASS’ iPhone Exploit — Apple Asleep at the Switch
Richi Jennings | | Apple, BLASTPASS, Citizen Lab, FaceTime, FaceTime bug, imessage, ios, iPhone, NSO, NSO Group, Pegasus, Pegasus Spyware, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
Zero click, zero day, zero clue: Yet another iOS zero-day lets NSO’s Pegasus “mercenary spyware” cause chaos ...
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The Ethics of Selling Hacker Tools
With Indiana Jones about to enter the space race in the Dial of Destiny, I am reminded of the great Tom Lehrer’s 1965 song about former Nazi scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun’s ...
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Hacking Google: Lessons From the Security Team, Part One
Cybersecurity is a battle that all organizations must fight, and there is really no point in doing it alone. Sharing information – the latest attack vectors, shifts in tactics, new-found defenses – ...
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NSO Group Fires CEO — and 100 Staff — in Spyware ‘Streamlining’
Richi Jennings | | NATO, NSO, NSO Group, Out of the laid off some will become whistleblowers, Pegasus, Pegasus Spyware, SB Blogwatch, Shalev Hulio, spyware
NSO, notorious producer of the Pegasus nation-state spyware, is struggling. So it’s dumped its CEO, Shalev Hulio, and around 100 employees ...
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US Gov’t Flip-Flops on NSO Group Sale to L3Harris
Richi Jennings | | Biden administration, CIA, Department of Commerce, FBI, five eyes, L3Harris, NSO, NSO Group, Pegasus, SB Blogwatch, So when is Elon Musk going to make them an offer?, White House
NSO Group, notorious makers of the notorious Pegasus spyware, has been in acquisition talks with huge defense contractor L3Harris ...
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