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Short Bytes: The Chinese authorities are forcing its Muslim minority population in Xinjiang to install spyware on their smartphones. People are getting notices via WeChat and being instructed to install the app to avert detention up to 10 days. The app regularly scans the media stored on the phone and matches it with a database illegal […]
A Newly Discovered Android Malware “SpyDealer” Spying on more than 40 Apps and steals Personal information including contacts list, Call History, capture the screen shot, users GPS Location and other Confidential information. All user’s data exfiltrated by abusing the Android accessibility service feature and uses exploits from a commercial rooting app for data theft by […]
A Remote Access Trojan (RAT) for Android called “Android.Spy.377.origin” with Spying Capability Malware used to steal the Android Users Confidential information via Telegram Protocol. Hackers execute this Spyware Via commands and its used message-exchange protocol of the Telegram online messenger. This Spyware checking the Popularity of the infected user among all other Telegram users and […]
A New Highly Sophisticated Remote access Trojan (RAT) Called “MacSpy” advertised for Free which Described as “most sophisticated Mac spyware ever” Specifically target for Mac Users since Mac users are growing Rapidly. MacSpy Spyware Spreading through Advertisement Idea of malware-as-a-service (MaaS) and they Claimed that they have noticed a lack of “sophisticated malware for Mac users” […]
Short Bytes: A security firm called Zscalar spotted a malicious app living on the Play Store with a false moniker System Update. It managed to survive for around 3 years. Under the hood, it hides a spare called SMSVova which can be controlled by the attacker via SMS to fetch location details and change device […]
[jpshare]Notorious surveillance software called Pegasus Andriod spyware has been Found which Monitor all the Vicims activities including take Screenshots, capture audio,Camera,Contact list Keystroke logging,read email and pull the data’s from the users Android Mobiles. Google and the Lookout Security Intelligence team Discovered thisPegasus Malware and Explained that ,existed as an Android application (APK) that compromised […]
Spyware is defined as a “generic term for a range of surreptitious malware such as keyloggers, remote access trojans, and backdoor trojans, especially those that allow remote surveillance of passwords and other sensitive data”. The term can also refer to “more aggressive adware”, which collects user information such as visited websites, installed applications, and other personal […]
There’s a disturbing possibility that the Mexican government, the soda industry, or some combination of both used spyware to harass health advocates who support Mexico’s soft-drink tax. According to a new report by Citizen Lab, an outfit at the University of Toronto that investigates hacking, somebody harassed them — it’s just a question of who, […]
Short Bytes: A student hacker from Virginia, named Zachary Shames, has pleaded guilty to the charges to writing a keylogger and selling it. His keylogger helped different buyers infect about 16,000 computers. The 21-year-old wrote the spyware in his school and continued to improve it in his college. Shames will be sentenced on June 16 with a […]
Hacking video demo shows government spyware in action.Have you ever wondered how does a government-sanctioned hacking actually work? Well, unless you are employed in a police department, or are a middleman who sells spyware software, or if you’ve worked in one of these companies, it is unlikely that you may have seen a live demo […]
Short Bytes: In a demo video, an employee of a little-known surveillance company shows how their spying tool can be used to keep an on any possible target, monitor his internet life, and intercept his texts and video calls. Such tools are purchased by governments and security agencies in large numbers. The turn of events in the […]
Short Bytes: In Enigma Software’s yearly top 20 cities list, Tampa maintains its top spot with 506% higher infections than the national average. The top five was rounded out by St. Louis, Orlando, Denver, and Atlanta. This list presents some interesting data, but there isn’t a definite way to determine what makes people in one area […]
The number of countries deploying it grows to 32.FinFisher, a piece of spyware sold to governments by a German security vendor, has been linked by recent research to at least 32 governments around the world, more than ever before. Citizen Lab, a research department at the University of Toronto, has been studying the usage of […]
Compromised WordPress websites are delivering spyware and PUAs (potentially unwanted applications) to users via fake Flash update messages and fake browser plugins. Zscaler researchers have uncovered a covert spyware distribution campaign that relies on hacked WordPress websites to redirect users to spyware-infested URLs. According to their findings, the campaign has been active since the first […]
Lenovo has been caught, yet again, installing apps on its laptops and workstations without the user’s consent or knowledge, as Michael Horowitz from Computerworld reports. This is not the first time Lenovo has done this, as earlier this year, in February, security experts found that the company installed the Superfish Visual Discovery software on PCs, […]
Chevrolet will offer parents an uncanny level of oversight when they need to lend the family ride to their kids with its NSA inspired spying feature that will be installed in its upcoming Malibu. The system has been dubbed as Teen Driver and will be launched on the bow-tie brand’s latest mid-sized sedan. The sedan […]
A security firm has revealed that hackers are targeting companies utilizing services of Monster Jobs, a well-known job portal, through a new variant of the Gameover computer Malware. Gameover, the malware infecting the employment portal, is similar to the infamous Zeus banking malware whose source code was leaked in 2011. The Trojan steals log-in credentials […]
A coal firm in Indonesia named as Bumi has faced heavy crisis in the recent past, but, firm’s physical performance wasn’t the reason behind the crisis. It was through hacking, it all happened, the crisis that the firm is facing now is of such intensity that firm is now beginning to get offers to sell its current […]