Pegasus Spyware

Spyware Maker NSO Ordered to Pay WhatsApp $168 Million for 2019 Hack
Meta, which owns WhatsApp, became the first company to sue and win against NSO Group, the maker of the notorious Pegasus spyware, when a U.S. ruled in December that the vendor hacked ...
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21 Countries Sign Onto Voluntary Pact to Stem the Proliferation of Spyware
Twenty-one countries signed onto the Pall Mall Process, an effort a year in the making that was created to develop a framework nations could adopt to address the proliferation and malicious use ...
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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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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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Kaspersky Details Method for Detecting Spyware in iOS
Researchers with cybersecurity firm Kaspersky are detailing a lightweight method for detecting the presence of spyware, including The NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus software, in Apple iOS devices. The new method, which calls ...
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‘BLASTPASS’ iPhone Exploit — Apple Asleep at the Switch
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Zero click, zero day, zero clue: Yet another iOS zero-day lets NSO’s Pegasus “mercenary spyware” cause chaos ...
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A spyware operator’s POV
The PBS documentary series Frontline recently aired a two-part look at the Pegasus Project from the perspective of some of the journalists and targets involved. You can watch the episodes here ...

NSO Group Fires CEO — and 100 Staff — in Spyware ‘Streamlining’
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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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NSO Zero-Click Exploit: Turing-Complete CPU in Image File
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Researchers have reverse engineered NSO group’s recent zero-click iPhone exploit. And it’s a doozy ...
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