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24 May, 3 tweets, 2 min read

The author of this post found the SolarWinds attack a 2-3 months before FireEye's announcement on December 8th 🤯reddit.com/r/Solarwinds/c…

The SolarWinds attackers used a system path to plant the malware in stage 2 (e.g. C:\Windows).

On smartphones we wouldn't be able to legitimately discover such attack due to sandbox restrictions on system folders 🤦‍♂️🤯

I'll wrap up with the obligatory #FreeTheSandbox 👊

Original file "GetUpdateDates.vbs" does not have a ".cmd". Anyone happen to have a copy of the ".vbs.cmd" file? It's not 100% yet that it was related to the attack, another actor, or a file used by SW engineer that loves double extensions but it will be great to find out 🧐

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28 Jul

For those who think that NSO is the problem - you're missing out the bigger picture:

1. There are many vendors like NSO, not just in Israel. Also in EU, APAC, N. America, and others.

2. Even if NSO shuts down tomorrow: we still have a problem: mobile attacks are scalable.

2. (cont) Once you have created a generic attack-chain, you can infect 1B+ devices. This is too powerful to keep a single barrier for attackers which already block telemetry sharing with the vendors.

3. NSO is *EASY* to find *if* a deeper access is provided to the phones.

Which leads to the bigger problem:

Why we can opt-in to be tracked by ads but can't opt-in to choose our own security apps to run with full privileges on our own phones?

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@ihackbanme

18 Jul

https://twitter.com/ZecOps/status/1416794337153720322

[Important thread 1/N]: Let that sink in for a second: almost all respected publications were under espionage.

All the sources of journalists, were exposed. If you ever spoke to a journalist (even with "Signal"/"Whatsapp") you are exposed.

THIS IS A MAJOR THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!

https://twitter.com/ZecOps/status/1416794337153720322

[2/N] If we needed another proof that we have to fix the broken mobile security permission model, here it is.

NSO's software is actually super easy to catch, but due to the lack of permissions it becomes almost impossible at scale, and NSO only has a single vendor to avoid.

[3/N] This was easy to do for NSO: they simply blocked telemetry, communications, and updates to Apple/Google: and viola! They were set. The vendors had no visibility.

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