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Detection tool for Pegasus and other spyware
19 January 2024
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Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has developed a new detection method for Pegasus and similarly sophisticated iOS spyware. The cybersecurity provider is providing a publicly available infection check tool on Github. The spyware Pegasus was recently used in Germany. To make it easier to identify spyware infections, Kaspersky experts have developed a self-check tool for users. In addition to Pegasus, the iOS spyware Reign and Predator are also detected. Kaspersky experts were able to develop the new detection method because they realized that Pegasus infections leave traces in the system log “Shutdown.log”, which is in the diagnostic archive of every mobile...

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iPhones: Secret malware discovered – search tool is ready
June 5, 2023
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iPhones: Secret malware discovered – search tool is ready

A few days ago, Kaspersky discovered sophisticated malware on company iPhones. The campaign, dubbed Operation Triangulation, is apparently even more dangerous than, say, Pegasus, with which even heads of state like Macron were overheard. Kaspersky analyzed the malware and released the free triangle_check tool for macOS, Windows and Linux, which looks for the malware infection. It sounds more like something out of a spy film: an APT group develops malware tailored to a specific iPhone vulnerability and uses it to infect the iPhones of a major security provider. The attacker must have unlimited self-confidence. But the attacker didn't...

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Spy software Pegasus: EU wants ban
4 April 2022
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According to an interview by WirtschaftsWoche with Vera Jourova, Vice President of the EU Commission, her authority wants to take action against the use of the Pegasus spy software. Europe must show that it values ​​data protection highly. As the Vice-President of the EU Commission Vera Jourova announced, one cannot demand more from the USA in terms of data protection and at the same time let the spy software Pegasus run free in Europe. one must first “put one's own house in order”. Ban Pegasus spy software Europe could do a much better job of convincing the rest of the world of the value of data protection if spy software…

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Mobile Security Report: 2,5 billion new Android apps with malware
March 13, 2022
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Mobile Security Report: 2,5 billion new Android apps with malware

The experts at G DATA CyberDefense counted more than 2,5 million malware apps for Android devices in 2021. According to the G DATA Mobile Security Report, the number of attack attempts that were averted has also increased by 21 percent within a year. Methods to infiltrate smartphones with malware are app stores, SMS phishing or the spy software Pegasus. Attacks on smartphones with the Android operating system increased again in 2021 compared to 2020. According to an analysis by G DATA CyberDefense, the number of repelled attack attempts increased by 21 percent. The pace of the attackers is still high: All…

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Spyware Pegasus: Protect mobile devices from high-end malware
14. February 2022
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Spyware Pegasus: Protect mobile devices from high-end malware

Only recently did the world learn of Pegasus spyware, which primarily targeted journalists, politicians, human rights activists and defenders, and lawyers. Protecting yourself completely from such professional surveillance software is almost impossible. However, users can take certain measures that make it difficult for attackers to target them. Kaspersky experts give tips. Costin Raiu, head of the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky, has now compiled top-level recommendations on how mobile users of Android and iOS devices can protect themselves against Pegasus and other high-end mobile malware. spy ware...

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BKA buys Pegasus spy software
September 23, 2021
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According to the latest news, the Federal Criminal Police Office has bought a version of the espionage software Pegasus from the controversial Israeli provider NSO Group. A statement from Jaya Baloo, Head of Cybersecurity at Avast, a leading provider of IT security and data protection solutions. Spy software like Pegasus is particularly problematic because it can easily be released into the wild and used to spy on innocent people as well. It was only this summer that we learned that Pegasus was being used to eavesdrop on communications from journalists and human rights activists, which constitutes a serious violation of human rights. The spy software is able to intercept the communication of individual ...

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Check mobile devices for Pegasus spyware
July 31, 2021
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The surveillance software "Pegasus" from the Israeli company NSO Group is used worldwide to systematically monitor media representatives, human rights defenders and activists. This revealed a joint research project by Amnesty International and distributed a Pegasus Check tool to secure forensic evidence. A joint research project by more than 80 media professionals in ten countries in cooperation with the NGO "Forbidden Stories" and Amnesty International reveals the machinations of the surveillance software "Pegasus". Amnesty International Offers Pegasus Check Tool NSO Group's software has been used to facilitate human rights abuses on a massive scale around the world. This resulted in a large-scale…

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Avast has been fending off Pegasus since 2016
July 24, 2021
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It became known that VIPs, heads of state, journalists and opposition figures around the world were being eavesdropped using the Pegasus surveillance and espionage tool. A statement from Avast, Jakub Vavra, Mobile Threat Analyst “Pegasus is a remote access tool (RAT) with spyware properties. Its Android variants can extract data from popular messenger platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Viber, as well as email programs and browsers. The spyware is able to remotely monitor the user's screen via microphone and camera, take screenshots and record the inputs of the smartphone owners via keylogging. These functions make Pegasus ...

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iOS & Android: Pegasus spyware against journalists and members of the opposition
July 20, 2021
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The Pegasus project, which was researched in Germany by Süddeutsche Zeitung, Zeit and NDR, among others, was published yesterday. According to this, journalists and members of the opposition are spied on worldwide using the Pegasus espionage software. The iOS version of Pegasus was first discovered in 2016, about a year later an Android version was found and presented at Kaspersky’s Security Analyst Summit in 1997. Dmitry Galov, Security Researcher in the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky, answers the most important questions about Pegasus below. What is pegasus Pegasus is a modular ...

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