A little-known spyware company, Intellexa, is now competing with Pegasus developer NSO Group, which is offering its services to hack into Android and iOS devices for a fee of $8 million (about Rs 64 crore). Malware source code provider Vx-Underground found documents representing a proposal from Intellexa to provide services that include exploits for Android and iOS devices.
“Leaked documents online show purchase (and documentation) of $8,000,000 iOS remote code execution zero-day exploit,” it tweeted.
The offer includes 10 transitions for iOS and Android devices as well as a “magazine of 100 successful transitions.”
According to Security Week, documents labeled as “Proprietary and Confidential” revealed that the exploit should work on iOS 15.4.1 and the latest Android 12 update.
Apple released iOS 15.4.1 in March, which suggests the offer is recent.
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“Specifically, the offering is intended for remote, one-click browser-based exploits that allow users to inject payloads into Android or iOS mobile devices,” the report noted.
Intellexa is based in Europe with six sites and R&D laboratories across the continent.
The company posted on its website, “We help law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world close the digital gap with multiple and diverse solutions, all integrated with our unique and best-in-class Nebula platform “
Last year, a Citizen Lab report referred to Intelexa, using Citrox’s predatory iPhone spyware to target a Greek lawmaker.
Citizen Lab said Citrox was part of the Intellexa Alliance, which it described as “a marketing label for a range of mercenary surveillance vendors that emerged in 2019.”
Apple last year filed a lawsuit against NSO Group for restricting the company from using its services and devices.
As state-sponsored cyberattacks with government spyware like Pegasus escalate, Apple is offering Lockdown Mode this fall with iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura.
This mode provides special additional protection to high-profile users who may be at risk of highly targeted attacks from private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary spyware.
In India, the Pegasus panel said this week that the presence of the controversial Israeli spyware Pegasus was not conclusively established in an investigation into 29 mobile phones, and that the government did not cooperate with the investigation.
The apex court-appointed panel said that five out of 29 mobile phones were probably infected with some malware, but that does not mean that it was Pegasus spyware.
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