Cyber Security

Windows internet-facing servers are being targeted by a new threat actor operating "almost completely in-memory," according to a new report from the Sygnia Incident Response team. The report said that the advanced and persistent threat…

Democracy depends on an equality of arms. If governments acquire political weapons unavailable to their opponents, they become harder to dislodge. They now possess so many that I begin to wonder how an efficient autocracy, once established,…

Israel’s defence minister will share on Wednesday the initial findings from a government assessment of NSO Group exports with France, whose president was allegedly among targets of spyware sold by the private Israeli spyware company.…

Malware authors are increasingly using Exotic rarely spotted programming languages such as Go, Rust, Nim and DLang in order to create new tools and to hinder analysis, researchers have found. Use of those four languages is escalating in…

Veteran journalists N Ram and Sashi Kumar have moved the Supreme Court seeking an independent probe by its sitting or retired judge into the reports of alleged snooping by government agencies on eminent citizens, politicians and scribes by…

Democratic lawmakers in Washington have called on the Biden administration to consider placing NSO Group on an export blacklist and said recent revelations of misuse reinforced their conviction that the “hacking-for-hire industry must be…

Ransomware is the threat of 2021. It’s impacting everything from large enterprises, hospitals, to other aspects of our critical infrastructure. Here, we’ll take a look at actual malware domain traffic and how it correlates to ransomware…

Pegasus spyware, Senior government officials and “allies of the US” were targeted by the spyware from the surveillance software developer NSO Group, according to the head of encrypted messaging app WhatsApp. Will Cathcart, who became the…

In an interview with the Guardian, the WhatsApp CEO talks about NSO malware and says Apple should “be loud, join in” rather than saying this won’t affect many of its users. Last weekend, NSO malware, an explosive report from Amnesty…

It’s tough to decide whether an app is a nasty example of stalkerware — reporting on what, where, and when the tracked individual is doing something — or a legitimate tracker like a parental control app for a child’s phone. Both stalker and…