NSO Group
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 ...
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 – ...
NSO Group Fires CEO — and 100 Staff — in Spyware ‘Streamlining’
NSO, notorious producer of the Pegasus nation-state spyware, is struggling. So it’s dumped its CEO, Shalev Hulio, and around 100 employees ...
US Gov’t Flip-Flops on NSO Group Sale to L3Harris
NSO Group, notorious makers of the notorious Pegasus spyware, has been in acquisition talks with huge defense contractor L3Harris ...
Spanish Govt. Hacked by NSO Pegasus Spyware (or was it?)
The prime minister and the defense minister of Spain were infected with Pegasus. The notorious spyware, sold by NSO Group “only to governments,” caused large amounts of data to be exfiltrated ...
NSO Group Spied on European Union—on French Orders?
An espionage attempt was made by an NSO Group customer to hack the phones of senior EU officials ...
NSO Zero-Click Exploit: Turing-Complete CPU in Image File
Researchers have reverse engineered NSO group’s recent zero-click iPhone exploit. And it’s a doozy ...
Life360 Selling Location Data, NSO Group Spyware Hacks Government Employees, Homecoming Queen Contest Hacked
Life360, a popular family safety app used by 33 million people worldwide, is selling location data to a dozen data brokers, phones of 11 U.S. State Department employees were hacked with spyware ...
Apple Warns of Further Compromises by Israel’s NSO Group
The NSO Group, known for their suite of exploitation tools, has once again found itself at the center of unwanted attention when Apple revealed that it had warned a number of individuals, ...
Facebook Dumps Face Recognition, Social Engineering Bots, US Sanctions NSO Group
Facebook shuts down their face recognition system and deletes more than a billion facial recognition templates, how phone bots are being used to trick victims into giving up their multi-factor authentication codes, ...