{"id":9603,"date":"2023-04-11T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T14:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/experts-warn-of-new-spyware-threat-targeting-journalists-and-political-figures\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T16:37:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T14:37:51","slug":"experts-warn-of-new-spyware-threat-targeting-journalists-and-political-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/experts-warn-of-new-spyware-threat-targeting-journalists-and-political-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts warn of new spyware threat targeting journalists and political figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen Lab says victims\u2019 phones infected after being sent a iCloud calendar invitation in a \u2018zero-click\u2019 attack<\/p>\n<p>Security experts have warned about <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenlab.ca\/2023\/04\/spyware-vendor-quadream-exploits-victims-customers\/\">the emergence of previously unknown spyware<\/a> with hacking capabilities comparable to NSO Group\u2019s Pegasus that has already been used by clients to target journalists, political opposition figures and an employee of an NGO.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto\u2019s Munk School said the spyware, which is made by an Israeli company called QuaDream, infected some victims\u2019 phones by sending an iCloud calendar invitation to mobile users from operators of the spyware, who are likely to be government clients. Victims were not notified of the calendar invitations because they were sent for events logged in the past, making them invisible to the targets of the hacking. Such attacks are known as \u201czero-click\u201d because users of the mobile phone do not have to click on any malicious link or take any action in order to be infected.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/11\/canadian-security-experts-warn-over-spyware-threat-to-rival-pegasus-citizen-lab\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eff075d0feaf7586c046f9655d384c84103f3abb\/0_233_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=108cb09b3bc0882724b288514f30dd47\" title=\"Experts warn of new spyware threat targeting journalists and political figures\" \/>Citizen Lab says victims\u2019 phones infected after being sent a iCloud calendar invitation in a \u2018zero-click\u2019 attack<br \/>\nSecurity experts have warned about the emergence of previously unknown spyware with hacking capabilities comparable to NSO Group\u2019s Pegasus that has already been used by clients to target journalists, political opposition figures and an employee of an NGO.<br \/>\nResearchers at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto\u2019s Munk School said the spyware, which is made by an Israeli company called QuaDream, infected some victims\u2019 phones by sending an iCloud calendar invitation to mobile users from operators of the spyware, who are likely to be government clients. Victims were not notified of the calendar invitations because they were sent for events logged in the past, making them invisible to the targets of the hacking. Such attacks are known as \u201czero-click\u201d because users of the mobile phone do not have to click on any malicious link or take any action in order to be infected. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen Lab says victims\u2019 phones infected after being sent a iCloud calendar invitation in a \u2018zero-click\u2019 attack Security experts have warned about the emergence of previously unknown spyware with hacking capabilities comparable to NSO Group\u2019s Pegasus that has already been used by clients to target journalists, political opposition figures and an employee of an NGO. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/experts-warn-of-new-spyware-threat-targeting-journalists-and-political-figures\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Experts warn of new spyware threat targeting journalists and political figures<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}