NSO Group

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2024
U.S. Judge ordered NSO Group to hand over the Pegasus spyware code to WhatsApp

A U.S. Court ordered surveillance firm NSO Group to hand over the source code for its Pegasus spyware and other products to Meta. Meta won the litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group, a U.S. Judge ordered the surveillance firm to hand over the source code for its Pegasus spyware and other products to the social network giant. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2023
The iPhone of a Russian journalist was infected with the Pegasus spyware

The iPhone of a prominent Russian journalist, who is at odds with Moscow, was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The iPhone of the Russian journalist Galina Timchenko was compromised with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. A joint investigation conducted by Access Now and the Citizen Lab revealed that the journalist, who is at odds with the Russian government, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2023
PWNYOURHOME, FINDMYPWN, LATENTIMAGE: 3 iOS Zero-Click exploits used by NSO Group in 2022

Citizen Lab reported that Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group used at least three iOS zero-click exploits in 2022. A new report from Citizen Lab states that the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group used at least three zero-click zero-day exploits to deliver its Pegasus spyware. In 2022, the Citizen Lab analyzed the NSO Group activity after finding […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2023
Pegasus spyware used to spy on a Polish mayor

The phone of an opposition-linked Polish mayor was infected with the powerful Pegasus spyware, local media reported. Reuters reported that the phone of an opposition-linked Polish mayor was infected with the Pegasus spyware. According to rumors, the Polish special services are using surveillance software to spy on government opponents. The news of the hack was […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2022
NSO Group Pegasus spyware leverages new zero-click iPhone exploit in recent attacks

Researchers reported that threat actors leveraged a new zero-click iMessage exploit to install NSO Group Pegasus on iPhones belonging to Catalans. Researchers from Citizen Lab have published a report detailing the use of a new zero-click iMessage exploit, dubbed HOMAGE, to install the NSO Group Pegasus spyware on iPhones belonging to Catalan politicians, journalists, academics, and activists. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2022
EU officials were targeted with Israeli surveillance software

According to a report published by Reuters, an Israeli surveillance software was used to spy on senior officials in the European Commission. One of the officials targeted with the infamous spyware there is Didier Reynders, a senior Belgian statesman who has served as the European Justice Commissioner since 2019. The report did not attribute the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2022
Israeli surveillance firm QuaDream emerges from the dark

One of the Apple iOS zero-day flaws exploited by the NSO group was also used by another surveillance firm named QuaDream. One of the vulnerabilities in Apple iOS that was previously exploited by the spyware developed by the Israeli company NSO Group was also separately used by another surveillance firm named QuaDream. Like NSO Group, QuaDream develops […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2021
NSO Group spyware used to compromise iPhones of 9 US State Dept officials

Apple warns that the mobile devices of at least nine US Department of State employees were compromised with NSO Group ‘s Pegasus spyware. The iPhones of at least nine US state department officials were compromised with the NSO Group’s spyware Pegasus. The US officials targeted by the surveillance software were either based in Uganda or focused […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2021
Israel cut cyber export list, excluding totalitarian regimes

Israel’s Ministry of Defense bans the sale of surveillance software and offensive hacking tools to tens of countries. Israel’s Ministry of Defense has cut the list of countries to which Israeli surveillance and cybersecurity firms could sell their products and services. 65 countries have been excluded from the export list, which now includes only 37 […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2021
Apple sues NSO Group for abusing state-sponsored Pegasus spyware

Apple has filed suit to ban the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group and parent company Q Cyber Technologies from using its product and services. Apple has sued NSO Group and its parent company Q Cyber Technologies in a U.S. federal court for illegally targeting its customers with the surveillance spyware Pegasus. According to the lawsuit, NSO […]