26 Jul 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 7/26/2024

Israel tried to frustrate US lawsuit over Pegasus spyware, leak suggests The Israeli government took extraordinary measures to frustrate a high-stakes US lawsuit that threatened to reveal closely guarded secrets about one of the world’s most notorious hacking tools, leaked files suggest. Israeli officials seized documents about Pegasus spyware from its manufacturer, NSO Group, in an effort to prevent the company from being able to comply with demands made by WhatsApp in a US court to hand over information…
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06 Feb 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 2/6/2024

Pegasus Spyware Targeted iPhones of Journalists and Activists in Jordan  The iPhones belonging to nearly three dozen journalists, activists, human rights lawyers, and civil society members in Jordan have been targeted with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, according to joint findings from Access Now and the Citizen Lab. Nine of the 35 individuals have been publicly confirmed as targeted, out of whom six had their devices compromised with the mercenary surveillanceware tool. The infections are estimated to have taken…
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13 Apr 2022
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 04/13/2022

Sandworm hackers fail to take down Ukrainian energy provider The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Sandworm tried on Friday to take down a large Ukrainian energy provider by disconnecting its electrical substations with a new variant of the Industroyer malware for industrial control systems (ICS) and a new version of the CaddyWiper data destruction malware. The threat actor used a version of the Industroyer ICS malware customized for the target high-voltage electrical substations and then tried…
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29 Oct 2021
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 10/29/2021

In the middle of a crisis, Facebook Inc. renames itself Meta Facebook Inc. is now called Meta Platforms Inc., or Meta for short, to reflect what CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday is its commitment to developing the new surround-yourself technology known as the “ metaverse.” But the social network itself will still be called Facebook. Also unchanged, at least for now, are its chief executive and senior leadership, its corporate structure and the crisis that has…
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