Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 9/16/23
'Insane' and unstoppable new spyware tool, Buenos Aires' dystopian facial recognition system, State Department's early cyber warning system, UK lord's fight to protect E2E, NIST's CSF 2.0 is a bust
Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of the best long-form infosec-related pieces we couldn’t properly fit into our daily crush of news. So tell us what you think, and feel free to share your favorite long reads via email at info@metacurity.com. We’ll gladly credit you with a hat tip. Happy reading!
Revealed: Israeli Cyber Firms Have Developed an 'Insane' New Spyware Tool. No Defense Exists
Haaretz’s Omer Benjakob walks through an investigation by Haaretz Magazine and the paper’s National Security & Cyber digital investigation desk of how “a new and disturbing cyber and espionage industry” has come into being in Israel that turns advertisements “into tools of war on the digital battlefield,” leveraging ads for offensive purposes, including spyware infections.
One of these companies is Insanet, whose existence is being made public here for the first time. As its name suggests, it possesses insane capabilities, a…
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