New: tried out the newer OMG Cables, one being a Lightning to USB-C cable that looks identical to the real Apple one. But it silently sends everything you're typing on your keyboard to an attacker's device potentially a mile away vice.com/en/article/k78…
Here is the attacker's interface. Just connect to the wifi hotspot hidden inside the malicious cable, start the keylogging, or push another payload if you want vice.com/en/article/k78…
New: encrypted phone firm Ciphr, one of last established firms after FBI secretly ran its own encrypted phone, has moved to cut-off the Australian market, per leaked screenshots + source. Australian serious organized criminals heavily use Ciphr vice.com/en/article/k78…
According to source, after the FBI's Anom operation, an owner of Ciphr was concerned authorities may come after them too vice.com/en/article/k78…
Was first sent screenshots in July of a Ciphr device being unable to connect to the company's network. Then later, source said that Ciphr had cut-off resellers in the country. Australia is a worldwide hub for these sorts of encrypted phones vice.com/en/article/k78…
New: FTC just ordered a stalkerware company and its CEO to stop its surveillance business operations. Company is SpyFone, marketed to people who want to monitor their families. These tools are used in abusive relationships. SpyFone told to notify victims vice.com/en/article/dyv…
SpyFone is not a transparent monitoring it. Users are told how to hide the app from their targets and surreptitiously collect their data. Includes GPS locations; email if phone is rooted, etc vice.com/en/article/dyv…
Like the FTC's enforcement action against another stalkerware vendor called Retina-X, which the FTC targeted after we reported it was hacked multiple times, here the FTC points to a 2018 data breach at SpyFone too. FTC targeting these breached firms atm vice.com/en/article/dyv…