{"id":151592,"date":"2022-12-01T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/google-discovers-windows-exploit-framework-used-to-deploy-spyware"},"modified":"2022-12-01T09:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:22:20","slug":"google-discovers-windows-exploit-framework-used-to-deploy-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/google-discovers-windows-exploit-framework-used-to-deploy-spyware","title":{"rendered":"Google discovers Windows exploit framework used to deploy spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-discovers-windows-exploit-framework-used-to-deploy-spyware2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has linked an exploit framework that targets now-patched vulnerabilities in the Chrome and Firefox web browsers and the Microsoft Defender security app to a Spanish software company.<\/p>\n<p>While TAG is Google\u2019s team of security experts focused on protecting Google users from state-sponsored attacks, it also keeps track of dozens of companies that enable governments to spy on dissidents, journalists, and political opponents using surveillance tools.<\/p>\n<p>The search giant says the Barcelona-based software firm is one of these commercial surveillance vendors and not just a provider of custom security solutions as it officially claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has linked an exploit framework that targets now-patched vulnerabilities in the Chrome and Firefox web browsers and the Microsoft Defender security app to a Spanish software company. While TAG is Google\u2019s team of security experts focused on protecting Google users from state-sponsored attacks, it also keeps track of dozens of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151592","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}