The Defender's Advantage Podcast
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The Defender's Advantage Podcast
TAG's Work Tracking Commercial Surveillance Vendors
Host Luke McNamara is joined by Clement Lecigne, security researcher at Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) to discuss his work tracking commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs). Clement dives into the history and evolution of the CSV industry, how these entities carry out operations against platforms like mobile, and the nexus of this problem into the increasing rise of zero-day exploitation.
For more on TAG's work on CSVs:
https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/state-backed-attackers-and-commercial-surveillance-vendors-repeatedly-use-the-same-exploits/
https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/commercial-surveillance-vendors-google-tag-report/
https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/googles-efforts-to-identify-and-counter-spyware/