{"id":142940,"date":"2022-07-27T03:02:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T08:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/cybersecurity-firms-expose-the-role-of-israeli-made-spyware-in-attack-on-journalists"},"modified":"2022-07-27T03:02:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T08:02:26","slug":"cybersecurity-firms-expose-the-role-of-israeli-made-spyware-in-attack-on-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/cybersecurity-firms-expose-the-role-of-israeli-made-spyware-in-attack-on-journalists","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity firms expose the role of Israeli-made spyware in attack on journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cybersecurity-firms-expose-the-role-of-israeli-made-spyware-in-attack-on-journalists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Israel-based company was exposed for employing a malware that exploited a vulnerability in Google\u2019s search engine to access the personal data of co.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers were able to link a zero-day vulnerability in Google\u2019s search engine to a US-sanctioned Israeli spyware company that targets journalists throughout West Asia.<\/p>\n<p>On 21 July, cybersecurity company Avast reported that the Israeli spyware company, Candiru, was behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/blog\/2021\/07\/15\/protecting-customers-from-a-private-sector-offensive-actor-using-0-day-exploits-and-devilstongue-malware\/\">DevilsTongue<\/a> malware that has targeted dozens of journalists in Lebanon, Turkey, Yemen, and Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>The malware was injected through an exploit, a program designed to take advantage of a vulnerability, identified as <a href=\"https:\/\/msrc.microsoft.com\/update-guide\/vulnerability\/CVE-2022-2294\">CVE-2022\u20132294<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israel-based company was exposed for employing a malware that exploited a vulnerability in Google\u2019s search engine to access the personal data of co. Cybersecurity researchers were able to link a zero-day vulnerability in Google\u2019s search engine to a US-sanctioned Israeli spyware company that targets journalists throughout West Asia. On 21 July, cybersecurity company Avast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}