Pegasus
Citizen Lab vs. NSO Group, Apple AI and Privacy
In episode 334, hosts Tom Eston, Scott Wright, and Kevin Johnson discuss two major topics. First, they explore the ongoing legal battle between Citizen Lab and the Israeli spyware company NSO Group ...
‘BLASTPASS’ iPhone Exploit — Apple Asleep at the Switch
Zero click, zero day, zero clue: Yet another iOS zero-day lets NSO’s Pegasus “mercenary spyware” cause chaos ...
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 ...
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, ...
US Blocks Trade with ‘Legal’ Pegasus Spyware Firm, NSO
What took you so long? The U.S. Commerce Dept. has finally blocked exports to the notorious NSO Group—makers of sophisticated “zero click” spyware, Pegasus ...
