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Your smartphone can be hit by various security threats, from phishing to malware to spyware. All it takes is one successful attack to take over your phone, compromise your data, and even steal your identity.  How do you protect yourself?  In a Mobile Device Best Practices report,[1] the National Security Agency (NSA) suggests tips designed to thwart hackers and attackers from assaulting your mobile device. One method is as simple as turning your phone off and on.

Spearphishing attacks can target

Spyware is malicious software engineered to covertly monitor and gather information from a user’s computer without their awareness or consent. It can record activities like keystrokes, browsing behavior, and personal information, often transmitting this data to a third party for espionage or theft.

FortiGuard Labs recently detected an attack exploiting the CVE-2021-40444 vulnerability in Microsoft Office. This flaw allows attackers to execute malicious code via specially crafted documents. In th

Spyware is malicious software engineered to covertly monitor and gather information from a user’s computer without their awareness or consent.  It can record activities like keystrokes, browsing behavior, and personal information, often transmitting this data to a third party for espionage or theft.

Researchers at FortiGuard Labs recently detected an attack exploiting the CVE-2021-40444 vulnerability in Microsoft Office.  This flaw allows attackers to execute malicious code via specially crafted

The US Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals and five entities associated with the Intellexa Alliance for their role in "developing, operating, and distributing" commercial spyware designed to target government officials, journalists, and policy experts in the country.  "The proliferation of commercial spyware poses distinct and growing security risks to the United States and has been misused by foreign actors to enable human rights abuses an

Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware, putting the privacy and security of up to 1.5 million Android users at risk.  These apps engage in deceptive behavior and secretly send sensitive user data to malicious servers in China.  Researchers have discovered this infiltration.  Their report shows that both spyware apps, namely File Recovery and Data Recovery (com.spot.music.filedate), with over 1 million installs, and File Manager (com.file.box.master.g

In recent years, our digital selves are now an established part of our identity. The emails we send, the conversations we have over social media both private and public as well as the photos we share, the videos we watch, the apps we download, and the websites we visit all contribute to our digital personas.  There are ways to prevent a government agency, country, or cybercriminal from peeking into our digital lives. Virtual private networks (VPNs), end-to-end encryption, and using browsers that

Tens of thousands of devices around the world, including many industrial control systems (ICS) and government computers, have been targeted in what appears to be an espionage campaign that involves a new piece of malware now named PseudoManuscrypt, Kaspersky recently reported. Manuscrypt, aka NukeSped, is a family of malware tools that have been used in espionage campaigns in the past. One such was a February spear-phishing campaign linked to Lazarus a prolific North Korean APT that used the Man

GCHQ the UK’s spying agency says they have fully engaged with AI to find, analyze and use the massive amounts of global data for their own intelligence work. AI and Machine Learning are playing an increasing role in cybersecurity, with security tools analyzing data from millions of cyber incidents, and using it to identify potential threats.

Digital disruption is sweeping through the world’s second-oldest profession, spying, and it is altering monitoring, collection, and action. Spying has of co

Researchers have discovered a new information-stealing Trojan, which targets Android devices with a blitz of data-exfiltration capabilities from collecting browser searches to recording audio and phone calls.   While malware on Android has previously taken the guise of copycat apps, which go under names similar to legitimate pieces of software, this clever new malicious app masquerades itself as a System Update application to take control of compromised devices.

"The spyware creates a notificati