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This picture taken in 2020 shows members of Malaysia’s Predator club wearing custom helmets from the movie character “Predator” outside the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. (Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP) (Photo by MOHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Predator spyware activity surfaces in new places with new tricks

The spyware’s developer, Intellexa, has been under pressure due to sanctions and public disclosure, but Recorded Future uncovered fresh activity.
Congolese soldiers sit in their military vehicle at the base of the United Nations Organization Mission for the Stabilization of the Congo (MONUSCO) in Kamanyola, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on Feb. 28. (Photo by Glody MURHABAZI / AFP)

Predator spyware resurfaces with signs of activity, Recorded Future says

Sanctions and public exposure might have driven Intellexa into silence for months, but that doesn’t mean its Predator spyware is gone for good.
Mongolian guards stand guard in front of the Genghis Khan statue at the Government Palace in Ulaanbaatar on May 21, 2023. The hackers allegedly conducted watering hole attacks on Mongolian government websites.(Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Google: apparent Russian hackers play copycat to commercial spyware vendors

The attack campaigns show how spyware tech companies have become more akin to nation-state threat actors.
A 12-year-old boy looks at an iPhone screen on December 19, 2023 in Bath, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

U.S. sanctions maker of Predator spyware 

The Biden administration sanctions individuals and entities behind the commercial surveillance tool implicated in human rights abuses.
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