Israeli spyware vendor Quadream less than a week after its hacking toolset was published by Citizen Labs and Microsoft, it is said to be out of business in the next few days.
The development was reported by the Israeli financial newspaper Karkalist, citing unnamed sources, who said the company had “been completely inactive for some time” and had “been in a difficult situation for several months.” added.
The company’s board is considering selling the intellectual property, the report added.
News of the shutdown revealed that the company’s spyware framework (called REIGN) was used against journalists, opposition forces, and NGO workers in North America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. sometimes brought.
Microsoft describes REIGN as “a suite of exploits, malware, and infrastructure designed to steal data from mobile devices.”
The attack required exploiting a currently patched flaw in iOS to deploy sophisticated surveillance ware that could covertly collect sensitive information such as voices, images, passwords, files and locations.
Apple told The Hacker News last week that there were no signs to suggest an exploit codenamed ENDOFDAYS was in use since the company released iOS 14.4.2 in March 2021.
QuaDream, like Israel’s NSO Group and Candiru, is a private sector attacker (PSOA) that sells end-to-end hacking tools that customers can use in their operations.
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Although the company has largely been able to stay in the shadows, Haaretz reported in June 2021 that its spyware technology was sold to Saudi Arabia to carry out zero-click attacks against targets of interest.
And last year, Reuters revealed that QuaDream took advantage of iMessage flaws to develop its own iPhone exploits comparable to those provided by NSO Group. Apple said he addressed this vulnerability in September 2021.
