Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus
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Re: Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus
#2Microsoft didn’t attributed it to an Israeli firm, Citizen Lab did.
Another article on this also showed pricing reported by Citizen Lab, $1.8 per 10 devices if this is true this market will be exploding unless it will be heavily regulated..
Re: Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus
#3Microsoft didn’t attributed it to an Israeli firm, Citizen Lab did. Another article on this also showed pricing reported by Citizen Lab, $1.8 per 10 devices if this is true this market will be exploding unless it will be heavily regulated..
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Re: Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus
#4Microsoft didn’t attributed it to an Israeli firm, Citizen Lab did. Another article on this also showed pricing reported by Citizen Lab, $1.8 per 10 devices if this is true this market will be exploding unless it will be heavily regulated..
>Microsoft doesn’t name Candiru but instead refers to an “Israel-based private sector offensive actor” it calls Sourgum.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/07/15/cyberwe...
>We believe Sourgum is an Israel-based private sector offensive actor or PSOA.
Re: Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus
#5Microsoft didn’t attributed it to an Israeli firm, Citizen Lab did. Another article on this also showed pricing reported by Citizen Lab, $1.8 per 10 devices if this is true this market will be exploding unless it will be heavily regulated..
>Microsoft doesn’t name Candiru but instead refers to an “Israel-based private sector offensive actor” it calls Sourgum. https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/07/15/cyberwe... >We believe Sourgum is an Israel-based private sector offensive actor or PSOA.
> We believe Sourgum is an Israel-based private sector offensive actor or PSOA. Citizen Lab has identified the group as a company called Candiru. Sourgum generally sells cyberweapons that enable its customers, often government agencies around the world, to hack into their targets’ computers, phones, network infrastructure and internet-connected devices.
Re: Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus
#6The other Israeli hacking company was NSO Group which was allegedly used in the killing of Khashoggi:
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/nso-grou...
Re: Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus
#7I am curious as to how exactly the spyware got on the victims computers. In the Microsoft blog, they mention a chain of exploits. But it could be interesting to understand how they are able to target an individual system with such precision.
Re: Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus
#8Can we submit non-paywalled links. Like the actual source: https://citizenlab.ca/2021/07/hooking-candiru-another-mercen...
Re: Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus
#9As a society, we absolutely have to start actively developing software (OS in the first place) and hardware with privacy as a topmost priority. Using Windows and common Windows apps leaves bizarrely many tracks on the computer. Just take a look at one of the many resources on "computer forensics" and you'll see.
And I doubt this can be addressed without decreasing complexity.
Re: Hooking Candiru: Another mercenary spyware vendor comes into focus
#10Let's link to a non-paywalled article: https://citizenlab.ca/2021/07/hooking-candiru-another-mercen...
(instead of: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-15/israeli-f... )