Daily Archives: March 21, 2023

News

US Citizen Hacked by Spyware

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The New York Times is reporting that a US citizen’s phone was hacked by the Predator spyware.

A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by the Greek national intelligence service and hacked with a powerful cyberespionage tool, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and officials with knowledge of the case.

The disclosure is the first known case of an American citizen being targeted in a European Union country by the advanced snooping technology, the use of which has been the subject of a widening scandal in Greece. It demonstrates that the illicit use of spyware is spreading beyond use by authoritarian governments against opposition figures and journalists, and has begun to creep into European democracies, even ensnaring a foreign national working for a major global corporation.

The simultaneous tapping of the target’s phone by the national intelligence service and the way she was hacked indicate that the spy service and whoever implanted the spyware, known as Predator, were working hand in hand.

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Advisories

CVE-2016-15029

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A vulnerability has been found in Ydalb mapicoin up to 1.9.0 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file webroot/stats.php. The manipulation of the argument link/search leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be initiated remotely. Upgrading to version 1.10.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 67e87f0f0c1ac238fcd050f4c3db298229bc9679. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. VDB-223402 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

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