{"id":43192,"date":"2021-09-30T14:14:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T14:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/32680\/Fears-Surrounding-Pegasus-Spyware-Prompt-New-Trojan-Campaign.html"},"modified":"2021-09-30T14:14:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T14:14:56","slug":"fears-surrounding-pegasus-spyware-prompt-new-trojan-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/fears-surrounding-pegasus-spyware-prompt-new-trojan-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears Surrounding Pegasus Spyware Prompt New Trojan Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent investigation into how Pegasus spyware is being used to monitor civil rights agencies, journalists, and government figures worldwide is being abused in a new wave of cyberattacks. <\/p>\n

Pegasus is a surveillance system offered by the NSO Group. While advertised as software for fighting crime and terrorism, a probe into the spyware<\/a> led to allegations that it is being used against<\/a> innocents, including human rights activists, political activists, lawyers, journalists, and politicians worldwide.  <\/p>\n

Israel-based NSO Group denied the findings of the investigation, conducted by Amnesty International, Forbidden Stories, and numerous media outlets.  <\/p>\n

Apple has since patched a zero-day vulnerability<\/a> utilized by Pegasus, a discovery made together with Citizen Lab.  <\/p>\n

Now, cybercriminals unconnected to Pegasus are attempting to capitalize on the damning report by promising individuals a way to ‘protect’ themselves against such surveillance — but are secretly deploying their own brands of malware, instead.   <\/p>\n

On Thursday, researchers from Cisco Talos said<\/a> that threat actors are masquerading as Amnesty International and have set up a fake domain designed to impersonate the organization’s legitimate website. <\/p>\n

This points to an ‘antivirus’ tool, “AVPegasus,” that promises to protect PCs from the spyware.  <\/p>\n

\"screenshot-2021-09-30-at-10-30-47.png\"<\/span>