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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

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

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Operating System Characteristics (Features)

The Crazy Programmer

Windows 8, Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 11, Linux, Mac OS, iOS, and Android are examples of the operating system. Nowadays, many spyware and malicious codes are impacting computer devices. It functions from essential to advanced computing activities on the command of the user. Operating System Characteristics.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

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. Miscellaneous.

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CVE-2023-41064, CVE-2023-4863, CVE-2023-5129: Frequently Asked Questions for ImageIO and WebP/libwebp Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Tenable

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. FAQ What do these vulnerabilities have to do with Apple products?

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Breaking Down the NASCIO Top 10 for 2023

Palo Alto Networks

Cortex XDR protects legacy Windows, Windows Server, MacOS and Linux systems. It is specifically designed to identify infected devices and block known exploits, malware, malicious URLs and spyware in 5G environments. Priority #4: Legacy Modernization Legacy modernization shouldn’t require you to sacrifice your security posture.

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Simplicity and Security

Code Simplicity

Here’s the Linux Logging API. You have to have a spyware scanner. There’s really no equivalent thing in UNIX (because the OS and the GUI are separate), but we can at least compare parts of it. Here’s The Windows Logging API. There’s just no comparison. It’s like a joke.

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The State of Security in 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

are concerned about spyware, 7.6% SolarWinds put supply chain attacks on the map, but the history is much longer, arguably going back to a backdoored Linux kernel in 2003 and probably extending much further in the past. Only 10.0% about illegitimate use of resources (for example, cryptocurrency mining), and 1.9% Figure 1-2.

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