#Surveillance
All CosmicBytez Labs articles tagged #Surveillance, across news, security advisories, how-to guides, and projects.
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AdFection: How Mercenary Spyware Invades Victims' Devices Through Targeted Advertising
Citizen Lab and Confiant expose AdFection: Israeli ad-tech firm Discover-Tech used real-time bidding to deliver zero-click Candiru spyware.
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P7 DarkSword: New iOS Exploit Kit Variant Adds Crypto Wallet Theft and Remote Commands
A stealthier DarkSword variant called P7 extracts crypto wallet keys and keychain data locally before exfiltration, and polls for live commands.
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Bipartisan Backlash to ALPRs Grows as Two High-Profile Bills Are Introduced
Hawley's Stop Flock Abuse Act and the Sanders-Merkley-AOC Ban Flock Act both target Flock Safety's ALPR surveillance networks.
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Who's Tracking You? New Service Unmasks Hidden Ad-Tech Networks
New free tool DecryptAds parses ads.txt and app-ads.txt files to expose the ad-tech firms and data brokers tracking you — ESPN.com alone lists 143.
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Germany Moves to Give Spy Agencies Hacking and Sabotage Powers
Germany's cabinet approves sweeping intelligence reform granting the BND and BfV unprecedented hacking, sabotage, and disinformation powers.
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Hijacked Hotel Wi-Fi Pushes Fake Browser Updates to Deliver CornFlake RAT
Microsoft tracks CaptiveCrunch, a Storm-2 operation that hijacks hotel captive portals to serve fake browser updates and install CornFlake — a...
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European Parliament Member Investigating Spyware Was Hacked With Pegasus
A Citizen Lab report reveals that former MEP Stelios Kouloglou — a substitute member of the EU's PEGA committee probing Pegasus spyware abuses — had his...
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Bulgaria Allowed Surveillance Tech Firm to Sell Products to Repressive Regimes, Report Says
Human Rights Watch obtained Bulgarian export licensing records showing the government approved surveillance firm Circles' technology sales to law...
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Google to Use UK and EU User IP Addresses for Ad Personalization
Starting August 3, 2026, Google will use IP addresses from UK, EEA, and Switzerland users for ad measurement and personalization — a reversal of its...
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Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500
Citizen Lab has documented how an Israeli surveillance company called Cobwebs Technologies built an advertising-based global geolocation platform named...
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Persona Source Code Leak Exposes Hidden Biometric
A 53MB source code leak from identity verification giant Persona reveals how routine age verification selfies feed into a surveillance system linking...
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ZeroDayRAT Mobile Spyware Enables Total Surveillance of iOS
A new mobile spyware platform called ZeroDayRAT supports Android 5-16 and iOS up to version 26, providing real-time camera streaming, keylogging, 2FA...