Sweet QuaDreams: A First Look at Spyware Vendor QuaDream’s Exploits, Victims, and Customers - The Citizen Lab
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At least five civil society victims of QuaDream’s spyware and exploits were identified in North America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Victims include journalists, political opposition figures, and an NGO worker. Traces of a suspected iOS 14 zero-click exploit used to deploy QuaDream’s spyware.

QuaDream’s software called ‘Reign’ grants users full surveillance capabilities over another person’s phone, including the ability to record calls, read messages and take photos by exploiting a security flaw in Apple iPhones, the Canadian Citizen Lab writes in a new report. QuaDream Ltd. is a smaller competitor of Israel’s NSO Group, which illegally spied until only a few years ago on government officials, journalists, dissidents and others often paid by authoritarian regimes.