Infosec in brief After activating its chameleon field and going to ground following press attention earlier this year, the dangerous commercial spyware suite Predator is back – with upgrades.

Insight Group, the threat research arm of cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, reported last week that new Predator infrastructure has appeared in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola, suggesting that US sanctions applied to Intellexa, the spyware company behind Predator, did so. not quite succeed.

"After Intellexa … faced sanctions and exposure, a noticeable decrease in Predator activity was observed," Insight Group wrote in its report on Predator. "However, according to [our] latest analysis, the Predator is far from going away."

Predator, like Pegasus from the NSO group and other commercial spyware, allows government actors to infiltrate devices and spy on users. The product is known for its ability to track locations, access device cameras, record calls, read messages, and do other privacy-infringing things.