google accuses eight governments. They all bought a pack for different reasons dtools and spyware designed to take advantage of what is called in slang 0-day vulnerability, that is, bugs in software that are unknown to the developer and the cybersecurity expert community. Crime and intelligence services occur good hackersin a way.
For years, Google has had its own team specifically tasked with beating cybercriminals in time Threat Analysis Group (TAG) In 2021, the company explains, the team discovered and reported 9 different zero-day leaks. Not only on Google products, but also on those of Apple and Microsoft. Make them that have been corrected by now.
Google claims that of these exploits, five targeted Android users were discovered and then sold by a surveillance company called Cytrox Company that allegedly sold to some governments a series of packages containing everything necessary to use the flaws to spy on users without their knowledge. In particular, the company is said to have sold a powerful and effective spyware known as the ‘Predator’.
The exploits would later be used by teams of hackers – “allegedly backed by their governments”. in Egypt, Armenia, GreeceMadagascar, Ivory Coast, Serbia, Spain and Indonesia.
Google has announced that it will continue to protect users by monitoring more than 30 different surveillance companies that specialize in selling spy tools.
Source: Lega Nerd
