Spyware

An Israeli software company has denied allegations that its spyware had been used in connection with the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

An Athens Appeals Court prosecutor on Wednesday reopened the case of the alleged suicide of a mobile telephone company executive implicated in a major wiretapping scandal in the wake of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered the Greek state to pay 50,000 euros in damages and expenses to the family of Costas Tsalikidis, a mobile telephone company worker who was found hanged in his home in March 2005, shortly before a major wiretapping scandal involving his firm became public.

The Bulgarian general directorate "Fight with organized crime" can now extract information from some of the most popular mobile applications like Viber, Facebook messenger, Whatsup, Skype and others.

It has been a frustrating month for all IT executives around the globe. They were faced with the most devastating attack on IT systems that they had ever seen. This attack, different from many known cyberattacks, hit everybody where it really hurts: data.

A Trojan named Gozi/ISFB has added nine major banks in Bulgaria to its list of targets, a specialized website has said.

The Turkish police paid 440,000 euros to an Italian hacker group between August 2011 and February 2015 to target certain individuals with specially designed spyware, according to leaked documents seen by daily Hürriyet.

Facebook users in Greece were inundated with virus-infected porn over recent days via a backdoor Trojan, with the police electronic crimes unit issuing a warning due to the rapid spread of the malicious software.
The initial porn post appears as having been shared by a friend of the account’s user, with a tag included. Up to 20 “friends” can be included.

Civil servants walked off the job on Friday morning as the Council of State, the country's highest administrative court, started hearing an appeal by their union, known by its Greek acronym ADEDY, against a public sector evaluation scheme that the government has pledged the troika to undertake as part of a broader streamlining of the public sector.