2024-03-01
Oh? REALLY???? IDK if I like this or not. On the one hand it's great to have folks look at this. On the other hand, its META so I don't think its a great idea to have the most powerful social media platform on the planet and one known for abusing it's users “taking a look” at the source code for one of the most powerful spyware products publicly known to exist.
The Guardian
A US judge orders the NSO Group to hand over its code for Pegasus and other spyware products to Meta, as part of Meta's ongoing litigation to protect WhatsApp
Israeli company NSO Group is accused in lawsuit by Meta's messaging app of spying on 1,400 users over a two-week period
2022-01-17
OK folks. Circle up. Ukrainian Government, IT Services and NGO's are being actively targeted by a MBR/File corrupter posing as a Ransomware package. Ransom is a diversion tactic meant to get the user to shutdown the box thus triggering the MBR overwrite. https://www.microsoft.com/...
Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft identifies a destructive malware operation targeting Ukrainian organizations; the malware looks like ransomware but lacks a ransom recovery mechanism
European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company Vilius Petkauskas / cybernews.com : Belarus state hackers suspected behind Ukraine cyberattack Grugq /...
2021-08-02
NSO isn't the only entity with this ability. Pegasus isn't novel. I've advised many people/orgs in austere and non-permissive environments where the loss of a single devices data could mean the torture, death or targeting of others. I promise you NSO is the tip of the iceberg. https://twitter.com/...
NBC News
Female journalists and activists share how they were targeted and harassed by authoritarian regimes through hack-and-leak attacks using the Pegasus spyware
Ghada Oueiss, a Lebanese broadcast journalist at Al-Jazeera, was eating dinner at home with her husband last June when she received …
2021-04-05
Congratulations everyone. You location, DOB and phone numbers are “old data” and since they found and fixed this 2 YEARS ago the “old data” should be ignored. Except.... It's not “old data” it's YOUR DATA and they lost 533 Million peoples. Please YEET your company into the sun. https://twitter.com/...
Insider
Personally identifiable data of 533M Facebook users has been posted online; Facebook says the data comes from a leak that was reported on and fixed in 2019
- The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.