Dark Reading

AUGUST 26, 2020

The group, which has been around since at least 2013, has impacted thousands of organizations, mostly in India.

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Spyware 102

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 5, 2022

Microsoft that fixed this security vulnerability in 2012-13 by implementing strict file verification policies is busy urging admins to follow its legacy advisory published in August 2013 in order to fix the issue. Keeping the systems loaded with anti-spyware or antivirus software makes complete sense.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

Mozilla fixes security vulnerabilities and introduces a new privacy feature for Firefox Raccoon Stealer returns with a new bag of tricks RansomHouse claims to have stolen at least 450GB of AMD’s data Forced Chrome extensions get removed, keep reappearing Internet Safety Month: Everything you need to know about Omegle Hermit spyware is deployed with (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Back to September 2013, Belgacom (now Proximus), the largest telecommunications company in Belgium and primarily state-owned, announced its IT infrastructure had suffered a malware-based attack. Specifically, these are IP addresses of computers where the spyware software communicated from Belgacom.

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Hacking Spyware Telecommunications Malware 110

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Kimsuky APT group has been analyzed by several security teams, it was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013, recently its activity was detailed by ESTsecurity and by the team of researchers at my former company Cybaze ZLab. ” reads the report published by Cybereason.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

The InvisiMole group is a Russia-linked threat actor that has been active since at least 2013- ESET experts linked the group to the Gamaredon Russian APT group, despite it is considering the two crews independent.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2023

The news of the data breach was first reported by the Polish security research blog Niebezpiecznik , which also confirmed that the threat actors behind the attack claimed to have seized the domain associated with the spyware. “It’s not clear who is behind the LetMeSpy hack or their motives. ” reported TechCrunch.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The PhantomLance malware implements classic spyware functionalities, it could exfiltrate user data, phone call logs, SMS messages, contacts, and GPS data. Android version, installed apps). . The malicious code is also able to deploy additional malicious payloads. . This allowed us to uncover more pieces of the attackers’ infrastructure.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

The group was first spotted by ESET in 2018, when the experts detected a sophisticated piece of spyware, tracked as InvisiMole, used in targeted attacks in Russia and Ukraine in the previous five years.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

It is not unusual to have your system or network infected with malware, such as spyware, that often lingers secretly with no apparent symptoms. Malware can be categorized based on how it behaves (adware, spyware and ransomware), and how it propagates from one victim to another (viruses, worms and trojans). Don’t worry though.

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Cyber threats Computers and Electronics Adware Spyware 113

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

It is not unusual to have your system or network infected with malware, such as spyware, that often lingers secretly with no apparent symptoms. Malware can be categorized based on how it behaves (adware, spyware and ransomware), and how it propagates from one victim to another (viruses, worms and trojans). Don’t worry though.

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Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Spyware 107

Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2019

It has been in continuous development at least since 2013 and the malware authors behind Hawkeye have improved the malware service adding new capabilities and techniques. “Hawkeye Keylogger” is an info-stealing malware for sale in the dark-web. Anyone can easily subscribe to the malware service by paying a fee.

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Spyware Malware Passwords Accountability 104

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

According to the telemetry logs collected by the Russian firm, the staffer temporary switched off the antivirus protection on the PC, and infected his personal computer with a spyware from a product key generator while trying to use a pirated copy of Office. On September 11, 2014, Kaspersky antivirus detected the Win32.GrayFish.gen

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2018

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 17, 2024

In 2013, a California man, using a spyware app, tracked a woman to her friend’s house and assaulted her.” In another case, a woman tried to escape her abusive husband, but because he had installed a stalking app on her phone, he was able to track down her and her children. The man murdered his two children.

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Risk Spyware Surveillance Cybersecurity 133

Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

That link would attempt to install spyware called Flubot, malware designed to steal online banking data from Andriod devices. . More Critical Patches for Microsoft Exchange Server (Versions 2013, 2016, & 2019). Millions of UK citizens received a scam text message (aka smashing) which impersonated DHL in April.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

However, they included an additional module that constantly monitored the messenger and sent data to the spyware creator’s C2 server. We also checked for code overlaps with other malware samples and it turned out that the crond backdoor represents a modified version of a backdoor called Bew, which we have been detecting since 2013.

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Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 137

Google Security

JULY 27, 2023

Anyone who visits that site is then exploited and delivered the final payload (usually spyware). At the end of 2021, Citizen Lab captured a 0-click exploit targeting iMessage, CVE-2023-30860, used by NSO in their Pegasus spyware. In 2021, we generally saw a move to 1-click links as the initial attack vector.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

An Australian national has been charged for the creation and sale of the Imminent Monitor (IM) spyware, which was also used for criminal purposes. The 24-year-old Australian national Jacob Wayne John Keen has been charged for his alleged role in the development and sale of spyware known as Imminent Monitor (IM). Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Hacker News

JULY 31, 2022

A 24-year-old Australian national has been charged for his purported role in the creation and sale of spyware for use by domestic violence perpetrators and child sex offenders.

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Spyware 125

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Kaspersky has been tracking deployments of this spyware since 2011. The leaked FinFisher support questions database suggests physical access could be used to infect machines: A question related to Linux infection which was submitted to FinFisher support in 2013. This version was detected and researched several times up to 2018.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

During routine monitoring of detections for FinFisher spyware tools, we discovered traces that point to recent FinFly Web deployments. We have discovered new evidence showing that Domestic Kitten has been using PE executables to target victims using Windows since at least 2013, with some evidence that it goes back to 2011.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2008 — Heartland Payment Systems — 134 million credit cards are exposed through SQL injection to install spyware on Heartland’s data systems. 2009-2013 — Roman Seleznev — Roman Seleznev hacks into more than 500 businesses and 3,700 financial institutions in the U.S.,

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