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Microsoft, Google, Citizen Lab blow lid off zero-day bug-exploiting spyware sold to governments

Copy Analysis Software patches from Microsoft this week closed two vulnerabilities exploited by spyware said to have been sold to governments by Israeli developer Candiru. On Thursday, Citizen Lab released a report fingering Candiru as the maker of the espionage toolkit, an outfit Microsoft code-named Sourgum. It is understood the spyware, code-named DevilsTongue by Microsoft, exploited at least a pair of zero-day holes in Windows to infect particular targets machines. Redmond said at least 100 people – from politicians, human rights activists, and journalists, to academics, embassy workers and political dissidents – have had their systems infiltrated by Sourgum s code; about half are in Palestine, and the rest dotted around Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Spain, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Armenia, and Singapore.

Israeli Firm Helped Governments Target Journalists, Activists with 0-Days and Spyware

Israeli Firm Helped Governments Target Journalists, Activists with 0-Days and Spyware
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SolarWinds hackers used iOS zero-day to penetrate iPhones used by government officials

  A newly uncovered zero-day exploit impacting older versions of iOS was leveraged by Russia-backed hackers in a campaign that targeted officials of Western European governments. Outlined by Google s Threat Analysis team in a report on Wednesday, the attack involved messages sent to government officials over LinkedIn. Victims who visited a provided link on their iOS device would be redirected to a domain that served up an initial malicious payload that subsequently examined device authenticity. After multiple validation checks were satisfied, a final payload containing the CVE-2021-1879 exploit was downloaded and used to bypass certain security protections. According to Google, the zero-day turned off Same-Origin-Policy safeguards, or protections that prevent malicious scripts from collecting data on the web. By disabling the defense, hackers were able to gather website authentication information from Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Facebook, Yahoo and others before sending i

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