On December 3rd, Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn at Reuters disclosed that iPhones of numerous U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using Pegasus spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group. While it may be easy to dismiss this as a geopolitical or nation-state incident, it would […]

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Many of the malware campaigns we have detected over the last year have been global at scale, targeting anyone with little regard to their location. Recently, we discovered and began monitoring the activity behind PhoneSpy, a spyware aimed at South Korean residents with Android devices. With more than a thousand […]

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Research and writeup by Aazim Yaswant and Nipun Gupta With the increase of mobile device use in everyday life, it is no surprise to see cybercriminals targeting these endpoints for financial crimes. Zimperium zLabs recently discovered an aggressive mobile premium services campaign with upwards of 10 million victims globally, and the total amount stolen could … Read More

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