Meta Security Exec Hacked and Tracked for a Year by 'Predator' Spyware

Malcontent · Mar 20, 2023

A former executive on Meta’s security policy team was hacked by the Greek government using sophisticated spyware known as “Predator,” which tracked her for a whole year.
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Meta Security Exec Hacked and Tracked for a Year by 'Predator' Spyware

Rasheed187 · Mar 25, 2023

That's why I keep saying that smartphones are so dangerous, you can't really block exploits on devices that are running Android and iOS. At least on Windows you have got very good anti-exploit software.

BoerenkoolMetWorst · Mar 25, 2023

In September 2021, Ms. Seaford booked an appointment for a booster shot of the Covid-19 vaccine through the official Greek government vaccination platform.

She got an automated SMS with her appointment details on Sept. 17, just after midnight. Five hours later, at 05:31 a.m., documents show, she received another SMS asking her to confirm the appointment by clicking on a link.

This was the infected link that put Predator in her phone. The details for the vaccination appointment in the infected text message were correct, indicating that someone had reviewed the authentic earlier confirmation and drafted the infected message accordingly.

The sender also appeared to be the state vaccine agency, while the infected URL mimicked that of the vaccination platform.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/world/europe/greece-spyware-hacking-meta.html

That's rather sophisticated social engineering..

Rasheed187 · Apr 1, 2023

Here is some more about how iOS and Android devices get hacked, smartphone security is a complete joke.

Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against popular platforms

In this blog, we’re sharing details about two distinct campaigns we’ve recently discovered which used various 0-day exploits against Android, iOS and Chrome and were both limited and highly targeted. The 0-day exploits were used alongside n-day exploits and took advantage of the large time gap between the fix release and when it was fully deployed on end-user devices. Our findings underscore the extent to which commercial surveillance vendors have proliferated capabilities historically only used by governments with the technical expertise to develop and operationalize exploits.
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https://blog.google/threat-analysis...-0-days-and-n-days-against-popular-platforms/

ronjor · May 28, 2023

Alien versus Predator? No, this Android spyware works together

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Sat 27 May 2023
Phone-hugging code can record calls, read messages, track geolocation, access camera, other snooping
The Android Predator spyware has more surveillance capabilities than previously suspected, according to analysis by Cisco Talos, with an assist from non-profit Citizen Lab in Canada.
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stapp · Oct 22, 2023

The Irish-linked Intellexa alliance has been accused of letting its spyware "run wild across the world"
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What is Predator?

Amnesty has said that once a device was infiltrated with Predator software, the user had unfettered access to its microphone and camera and all its data, while the target was entirely unaware.

This sort of spyware is typically sold to governments for legitimate intelligence operations, however there are concerns it has been abused, as is claimed to have happened in the case of the Greek Watergate scandal.
A new report from the human rights body, in partnership with European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), claims the software has been used in "zero-click attacks" - meaning it can infiltrate a device without the user having clicked on a link.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0wxr9rnnxeo

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