#cytrox — Public Fediverse posts

Everyone Is a Target: Targeted Mercenary Spyware & the Rise of Commercial Surveillance
#ParagonGraphite #Pegasus #MementoLabs #PREDATOR #Intellexa #Cytrox #NSOGroup
https://drift0r.substack.com/p/everyone-is-a-target-targeted-mercenary

Everyone Is a Target: Targeted Mercenary Spyware & the Rise of Commercial Surveillance
#ParagonGraphite #Pegasus #MementoLabs #PREDATOR #Intellexa #Cytrox #NSOGroup
https://drift0r.substack.com/p/everyone-is-a-target-targeted-mercenary

Everyone Is a Target: Targeted Mercenary Spyware & the Rise of Commercial Surveillance
#ParagonGraphite #Pegasus #MementoLabs #PREDATOR #Intellexa #Cytrox #NSOGroup
https://drift0r.substack.com/p/everyone-is-a-target-targeted-mercenary

Everyone Is a Target: Targeted Mercenary Spyware & the Rise of Commercial Surveillance
#ParagonGraphite #Pegasus #MementoLabs #PREDATOR #Intellexa #Cytrox #NSOGroup
https://drift0r.substack.com/p/everyone-is-a-target-targeted-mercenary

Everyone Is a Target: Targeted Mercenary Spyware & the Rise of Commercial Surveillance
#ParagonGraphite #Pegasus #MementoLabs #PREDATOR #Intellexa #Cytrox #NSOGroup
https://drift0r.substack.com/p/everyone-is-a-target-targeted-mercenary

Predators for Hire: A Global Overview of Commercial Surveillance Vendors
#ParagonGraphite #Candiru #Intellexa #Pegasus #Cytrox #Cy4gate #Cellebrite
https://blog.sekoia.io/predators-for-hire-a-global-overview-of-commercial-surveillance-vendors/

Would-be president pwned by President: #AhmedTantawy had phone hacked; #CitizenLab says Egyptian govt did it.

Fingered: @VodafoneEgypt, @Sandvine and #Cytrox itself. In today’s #SBBlogwatch, we rethink seeing pyramids. At @TechstrongGroup’s @SecurityBlvd: https://securityboulevard.com/2023/09/ios-zero-cytrox-predator-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc

#Cybersecurity #Egypt #Spyware #Predator #Cytrox: "- Between May and September 2023, former Egyptian MP Ahmed Eltantawy was targeted with Cytrox’s Predator spyware via links sent on SMS and WhatsApp. The targeting took place after Eltantawy publicly stated his plans to run for President in the 2024 Egyptian elections.

- In August and September 2023, Eltantawy’s Vodafone Egypt mobile connection was persistently selected for targeting via network injection; when Eltantawy visited certain websites not using HTTPS, a device installed at the border of Vodafone Egypt’s network automatically redirected him to a malicious website to infect his phone with Cytrox’s Predator spyware.

- During our investigation, we worked with Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) to obtain an iPhone zero-day exploit chain (CVE-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41992, CVE-2023-41993) designed to install Predator on iOS versions through 16.6.1. We also obtained the first stage of the spyware, which has notable similarities to a sample of Cytrox’s Predator spyware we obtained in 2021. We attribute the spyware to Cytrox’s Predator spyware with high confidence.

- Given that Egypt is a known customer of Cytrox’s Predator spyware, and the spyware was delivered via network injection from a device located physically inside Egypt, we attribute the network injection attack to the Egyptian government with high confidence.

- Eltantawy’s phone was additionally infected with Cytrox’s Predator spyware two years prior, in November 2021, via a text message containing a link to a Predator website."

https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/predator-in-the-wires-ahmed-eltantawy-targeted-with-predator-spyware-after-announcing-presidential-ambitions/

US government adds two more #spyware makers to denylist
The U.S. government put #Intellexa and #Cytrox, two European spyware makers, on an economic denylist. The addition of the two companies, based in Greece and Hungary, as well as two related entities in Ireland and North Macedonia, is part of a wider effort from the Biden administration against makers of malware that is sold exclusively to #lawenforcement and intelligence agencies.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/18/us-government-adds-two-more-spyware-makers-on-deny-list/ #surveillance #privacy #NSOGroup

BREAKING: US adds 2 European mercenary spyware firms to export control list.

#Cytrox & #Intellexa = *notorious* proliferators of #Predator spyware,

Linked to abuses around globe, Greek #spywaregate, hacking of Americans...🧵1/

Rule: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-15343.pdf

#Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) lookout for threats & #vulnerabilities across devices & #software that can be exploited by #cybercriminals.

#TAG in its latest blog post has highlighted a spyware dubbed as #Predator, which was installed by state-backed attackers in three separate campaigns by exploiting 5 #0days.

Google (TAG) has claimed that Predator is relatively new #spyware, created by the #surveillance company #Cytrox, which is based in #Skopje, North Macedonia 🇲🇰.