Spyware Vendor Variston Exploited N-Days in Chrome, Firefox, Windows
December 1, 2022
Chris Clements, VP of Solutions Architecture at Cerberus Sentinel, comments on Spyware exploit at CPO Magazine, Infosecurity and The Register.
“Commercial spyware vendors operate in a space that in any other context is indistinguishable from cybercrime. The exploits they develop and surveillance functions of their products are indeed, by definition, malware. These organizations often shield themselves from legal consequences by claiming to only sell their tools for ethical use by governments and law enforcement; however, these claims have been repeatedly found to be untrue for some spyware vendors.”
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“Because these products are professionally developed for the commercial market, they are often as user friendly as they are devastatingly effective in compromising their targets by employing zero-day or near zero-day exploits that have little or no defense.”
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“These organizations often shield themselves from legal consequences by claiming to only sell their tools for ethical use by governments and law enforcement; however these claims have been repeatedly found to be untrue for some spyware vendors.”
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