Linux Open Source Spyware 
The Parallax
JANUARY 22, 2018
Dark Caracal’s custom-developed mobile spyware, which the report’s authors call Pallas, is the first documented global advanced persistent threat , or APT, on a mobile device. . “ If you had even a little mobile development experience, [Dark Caracal] could cost less than $1,000.”—Michael
Tenable
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Frequently asked questions relating to vulnerabilities in Apple, Google and the open source libwebp library. On September 7, researchers at Citizen Lab published a blog post detailing their discovery of an iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit chain in Apple iOS used to deploy a spyware known as Pegasus. What is WebP or libwebp?
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O'Reilly Media - Ideas
AUGUST 2, 2022
Benchmarks, training code, and models are all open source. Lockdown mode provides an extreme degree of privacy; it is intended for people who believe they are being targeted by state-sponsored mercenary spyware. Tiny Core Linux is amazingly small: a 22MB download, and runs in 48MB of RAM. Don’t over-allocate memory.
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Open source software has also proven vulnerable: The XZ backdoor , which was discovered before it could do any damage, was a warning. are concerned about spyware, 7.6% Many commercial software packages have been compromised, including Okta, JetBrains, and MOVEit , in turn attacking their downstream users. Only 16.7% Only 10.0%
O'Reilly Media - Ideas
AUGUST 2, 2021
Amnesty International has released an open source tool for checking whether a phone has been compromised by Pegasus, the spyware sold by the NSO group to many governments, and used (among other things) to track journalists. Matthew Green’s perspective on “ security nihilism ” discusses the NSO’s activity; it is a must-read.
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