Discover our TDR team's revelations about Predator spyware: its C2 infrastructure and list of countries still using its cyber espionage tool.

Kazakhstan - the world's last SSLv2 superpower... and a country with potentially vulnerable last-mile internet infrastructure, Author: Jan Kopriva

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) tracks actors involved in information operations (IO), government backed attacks and financially motivated abuse. For years, TAG has been tracking the activities of commercial spyware vendors to protect users. Today, we actively track more than 30 vendors with varying levels of sophistication and public exposure selling exploits or surveillance capabilities to government backed actors. These vendors are enabling the proliferation of dangerous hacking tools, arming governments that would not be able to develop these capabilities in-house. While use of surveillance technologies may be legal under national or international laws, they are often found to be used by governments to target dissidents, journalists, human rights workers and opposition party politicians.

Today, alongside Google’s Project Zero, we are detailing capabilities provided by RCS Labs, an Italian vendor that uses a combination of tactics, including atypical drive-by downloads as initial infection vectors to target mobile users on both iOS and Android.

Lookout Les chercheurs de Threat Lab ont découvert un logiciel de surveillance Android de niveau entreprise utilisé par le gouvernement du Kazakhstan à l'intérieur de ses frontières. D'après notre analyse, le logiciel espion est probablement développé par le fournisseur italien de logiciels espions RCS Lab S.p.A.

Control of the internet is increasingly part of any modern conflict.