Several FBI documents were released by the New York Times Saturday highlighting an effort by the FBI in 2020-2021 to secure and deploy Pegasus spyware.
„#Pegasus #spyware, developed by the #NSO Group, is a zero-click hacking tool that can invade a target’s mobile phone and extract messages, photos, contacts, messages and video recordings.
The FBI insisted that their acquisition of the software was solely for “research and development” or “to be able to figure out how bad guys could use it.”
However, documents released by the New York Times, following a Freedom of Information lawsuit, highlight an effort by the FBI to deploy the spyware in criminal investigations. In particular, documents 93 and 94 show that the Criminal Investigations Department had prepared briefs regarding the “assessment and evaluation of NSO tool for potential use in criminal investigations.”“
https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/11/released-fbi-documents-show-an-effort-to-deploy-pegasus-spyware/
@auraxchan
„#Pegasus #spyware, developed by the #NSO Group, is a zero-click hacking tool that can invade a target’s mobile phone and extract messages, photos, contacts, messages and video recordings.
The FBI insisted that their acquisition of the software was solely for “research and development” or “to be able to figure out how bad guys could use it.”
However, documents released by the New York Times, following a Freedom of Information lawsuit, highlight an effort by the FBI to deploy the spyware in criminal investigations. In particular, documents 93 and 94 show that the Criminal Investigations Department had prepared briefs regarding the “assessment and evaluation of NSO tool for potential use in criminal investigations.”“
https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/11/released-fbi-documents-show-an-effort-to-deploy-pegasus-spyware/
@auraxchan
MERCENARY MAYHEM
A technical analysis of Intellexa's PREDATOR spyware - 2023 https://blog.talosintelligence.com/mercenary-intellexa-predator/
Spyware suppliers take great care to make the final payloads difficult to detect, obtain, analyze and protect against by creating deployment sequences that often require little or no user interaction. The delivery mechanism is usually an exploit chain that can start a zero-click exploit, like #FORCEDENTRY, which is produced by Israeli spyware firm #NSO Group, or with a link that the victim is tricked into clicking (i.e., a “one-click” exploit), like the one created by the surveillance company Cytrox to deploy their own spyware known as “PREDATOR.” (Note: #Cytrox is owned by Intellexa, which sells the #PREDATOR spyware.)
#spyware #israel
A technical analysis of Intellexa's PREDATOR spyware - 2023 https://blog.talosintelligence.com/mercenary-intellexa-predator/
Spyware suppliers take great care to make the final payloads difficult to detect, obtain, analyze and protect against by creating deployment sequences that often require little or no user interaction. The delivery mechanism is usually an exploit chain that can start a zero-click exploit, like #FORCEDENTRY, which is produced by Israeli spyware firm #NSO Group, or with a link that the victim is tricked into clicking (i.e., a “one-click” exploit), like the one created by the surveillance company Cytrox to deploy their own spyware known as “PREDATOR.” (Note: #Cytrox is owned by Intellexa, which sells the #PREDATOR spyware.)
#spyware #israel
Forwarded from 0% Privacy
😅Не знаю как можно смотреть без улыбки на такие новости/расследования.
😅I don't know how you can look at such news/investigations without a smile.
📑Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The F.B.I., an F.B.I. Inquiry Found.
"When The New York Times reported in April that a contractor had purchased and deployed a spying tool made by NSO, the contentious Israeli hacking firm, for use by the U.S. government, White House officials said they were unaware of the contract and put the F.B.I. in charge of figuring out who might have been using the technology.
After an investigation, the F.B.I. uncovered at least part of the answer: It was the F.B.I."🤣
📑FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself.
"Now, several months later, the bureau’s investigation is complete, and it turns out that the agency that disobeyed the White House and purchased the creepy NSO tool was...the FBI."🤣
#NSO_Group #unit8200 #FBI #investigation #WhiteHouse #spy_tools #Pegasus_Spyware
😅I don't know how you can look at such news/investigations without a smile.
📑Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The F.B.I., an F.B.I. Inquiry Found.
"When The New York Times reported in April that a contractor had purchased and deployed a spying tool made by NSO, the contentious Israeli hacking firm, for use by the U.S. government, White House officials said they were unaware of the contract and put the F.B.I. in charge of figuring out who might have been using the technology.
After an investigation, the F.B.I. uncovered at least part of the answer: It was the F.B.I."🤣
📑FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself.
"Now, several months later, the bureau’s investigation is complete, and it turns out that the agency that disobeyed the White House and purchased the creepy NSO tool was...the FBI."🤣
#NSO_Group #unit8200 #FBI #investigation #WhiteHouse #spy_tools #Pegasus_Spyware
Forwarded from Pegasus NSO & other spyware
Citizen Lab (@citizenlab): "🚨🚨WE URGE EVERYONE TO UPDATE THEIR APPLE DEVICES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. We have found an actively exploited #zero #click vulnerability that was used to deliver #NSO group’s #Pegasus #spyware. https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/" | nitter – https://nitter.net/citizenlab/status/1699873620070191520#m
Forwarded from Pegasus NSO & other spyware
Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater and the Off Leash group chat links with NSO
#Carbyne’s
#Blackwater
Lishem is also a co-founder of a company called Carbyne, which “brought together a who’s who of power brokers and intelligence figures from multiple regions including Russia, China and the Trump administration itself.#Carbyne’s
board members, executives and shareholders have reportedly included Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. #Bush; Peter #Thiel, the billionaire GOP megadonor and founder of intelligence contractor #Palantir Technologies; and -- who else -- Jeffrey #Epstein, the long-rumored #Mossad asset and convicted pedophile who committed suicide at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center in 2019.Eran Karpen, a co-founder of Unplugged, is a veteran of #Unit8200 which “specializes in eavesdropping, codebreaking, and cyber warfare [and is] ,”. Karpen was previously a senior executive with #CommuniTake, a startup that the #NSO Group emerged from.#Blackwater