'The case is notable because of the unrestrained nature of the hacking activities,' the researchers concluded. The links to NSO Group's Pegasus and Candiru stem from infrastructure overlaps, with the hacking operations likely the work of a customer with ties to the Spanish government owing to the timing of the attacks and the victimology patterns, the Citizen Lab said. The technology can even maintain access to victims' cloud accounts after the infection has ended.' 'Encrypted calls and chats can also be monitored. 'The spyware is capable of reading texts, listening to calls, collecting passwords, tracking locations, accessing the target device's microphone and camera, and harvesting information from apps,' the researchers said. On the other hand, the four individuals who were compromised with Candiru's spyware were victims of an email-based social engineering attack designed to trick the victims into opening seemingly legitimate links about COVID-19 and messages impersonating the Mobile World Congress ( MWC), an annual trade show that takes place in Barcelona.īoth Pegasus and Candiru's spyware (called DevilsTongue by Microsoft) are engineered to covertly gain extensive access to sensitive information stored in mobile and desktop devices.

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