Citizen Lab said Discover-Tech's ads delivered zero-click Candiru attacks to at least 45 Al Jazeera devices. Google and IAB Europe have delisted the vendor, but Citizen Lab cannot yet attribute the attacks to any party.
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Apple's latest mercenary spyware notifications went to users in 110 countries. The response checklist is per-person, and a standard MDM baseline covers almost none of it.
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Apple told TechCrunch it warned selected users across 110 countries on Thursday. For any org with journalists, diplomats or executives on iOS, the hardened profile is no longer an edge case.
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Access Now says helpline requests ran 30% to 40% above the usual post-notification surge, a record. Among the recipients: a Ukrainian soldier who assumed the alert was a scam.
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SHARE Foundation, Citizen Lab and Amnesty confirmed three infections among at least 14 Serbian targets around the March local elections, and the Android half of the wave was installed by hand during police custody.
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Mercenary spyware targeting reached three Turkish ministers on hardened, encrypted phones
At least three Turkish cabinet ministers turned up in Apple's latest mercenary spyware notification batch. Ankara's remediation ran ahead of any identification of the tool, and it may have to stay that way.
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Apple moved its spyware warnings to the Lock Screen. Your incident alerts are still in email.
Thursday's round of Apple threat notifications reached targets in 110 countries, and the delivery change is the lesson: an alert sent to an inbox is one you have to hope someone opens.
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