eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Apple continues to be haunted by spyware developed by an Israeli security firm that hostile governments used to hack into Apple devices to spy on journalists, activists and world leaders (see Apple Security Under Scrutiny Amid Fallout from NSO Spyware Scandal ). operating system was being exploited by the invasive Pegasus spyware.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In our case, a link to a malicious Tor installer was posted on a popular Chinese-language YouTube channel devoted to anonymity on the internet. More importantly, one of the libraries bundled with the malicious Tor Browser is infected with spyware that collects various personal data and sends it to a command and control server.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

What follows are a series of clues that point to the likely real-life identity of a Russian man who appears responsible for enabling a ridiculous amount of cybercriminal activity on the Internet today. com , which was registered in 2010 to an Aleksandr Volosovyk at the email address stas_vl@mail.ru. Image: Intel471.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The malicious payload was then used to upload additional malware, usually the Quarian backdoor that has been seen in use by Chinese-speaking actors since around 2010. Scanning the internet with available clues from our previous research, we are able to discover newly deployed hosts, in some cases even before they become active.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1988 — The Morris Worm — Robert Morris creates what would be known as the first worm on the Internet. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. An industry expert estimates the attacks resulted in $1.2

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

But the type of surveillance we’re talking about today is different. It isn’t so much “Big Brother”—a concept introduced in the socio-dystopian novel 1984 by author George Orwell. It’s “Little Brother.”

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