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The Register
Also: Velops routers plaintext; everything is a dark pattern; Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and more love Commercial spyware maker mSpy has been breached – again – and millions of purchasers can be identified from the spilled records.… Infosec in brief
Have I Been Pwned
In June 2024, . Comprising of 142GB of user data and support tickets along with 176GB of more than half a million attachments, the data contained 2.4M unique email addresses, IP addresses names and photos. The data was predominantly support tickets seeking help to install the spyware on target devices, whilst the attachments contained various data including screen grans of financial transactions, photos of credit cards and nude selfies. a huge trove of data from spyware maker mSpy was obtained by hacktivists and published online
Bleeping Computer
Dark Reading
Nation-states see the opportunity in targeting people directly through their mobile phones, in this case with sophisticated Android surveillanceware.
The Hacker News
The prolific China-linked nation-state actor known as APT41 has been linked to two previously undocumented strains of Android spyware called WyrmSpy and DragonEgg. "Known for its exploitation of web-facing applications and infiltration of traditional endpoint devices, an established threat actor like APT 41 including mobile in its arsenal of malware shows how mobile endpoints are high-value
The Hacker News
New findings have identified connections between an Android spyware called DragonEgg and another sophisticated modular iOS surveillanceware tool named LightSpy. DragonEgg, alongside WyrmSpy (aka AndroidControl), was first disclosed by Lookout in July 2023 as a strain of malware capable of gathering sensitive data from Android devices. It was attributed to the Chinese nation-state group APT41. On