SecureWorld News

JANUARY 9, 2025

There needs to be better corporate accountability, and that means CISOs need to fully document decisions by CEOs and boards to accept risks that are against the recommendation of company security leaders and experts. That, in turn, will help us to better design defensive strategies and tactics to thwart future attacks.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

One of many self portraits published on the Instagram account of Enzo Zelocchi. In June 2016, Islam was sentenced to a year in prison for an impressive array of crimes, including stalking people online and posting their personal data on the Internet.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2024

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. As expected, Ukraine topped the list, accounting for 40% of the activity.” The group operates out of military unity 26165 of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS). .

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

The man was arrested by the FBI in October 2016 , the US DoJ charged Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material. 13, 2016, asked one of the researchers to arrange a conversation with Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky. The case unfolded after someone who U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

STC) has been sanctioned for interfering with the 2016 U.S. Monokle has been used in highly targeted attacks at least since March 2016, it supports a wide range of spying functionalities and implements advanced data exfiltration techniques. SecurityAffairs – spyware, surveillance). ” Special Technology Centre Ltd. (

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2023

Hacktivist maia arson crimew told TechCrunch she'd found 60,000 compromised Android devices, dating back to 2016. Writing about the SpyHide hack, crimew describes how it was possible to download the full source code and git history for the account panel of SpyHide. And it's not a small number.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

Mirai and Reaper are examples of a new generation of IoT botnets comprised of millions of infected home routers and surveillance cams. Nor has anyone accepted accountability for encrypting any of the fresh flows of data, whether in transit or at rest. But companies and agencies need to do much more to get ahead of the problem.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 17, 2023

Therefore, the next time when you see your webcam light blinking and device battery exhausting faster than usual, you must quickly put the device under surveillance. Let us analyze it with an example: In the year 2016, a couple living in a condo in New York received a call. What happens if the webcam is in control of a hacker?

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

TBK Vision is a video surveillance company that provides network CCTV devices and other related equipment, including DVRs for the protection of critical infrastructure facilities. “Another notable spike to mention is IPS detections related to MVPower CCTV DVR models (CVE-2016-20016) also known as JAWS webserver RCE.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In July 2016, Line Corporation turned on end-to-end encryption by default for all Line users, after it had earlier been available as an opt-in feature since October 2015. Unlike other apps, it doesn’t require you to enter an email address or phone number to create an account. Provides account (i.e. Date and time account created.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Neutrino was founded in 2016 by Giancarlo Russo, Marco Valleri, and Alberto Ornaghi. The US company has experienced some controversy due to the acquisition, the heated debate surrounding Neutrino comes from the involvement of Valleri and Ornaghi, who were both executives of surveillance firm Hacking Team.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

to replace Chinese equipment Hackers breached a server of National Games of China days before the event Russian Gamaredon APT is targeting Ukraine since October Israeli surveillance firm QuaDream emerges from the dark Argo CD flaw could allow stealing sensitive data from Kubernetes Apps. US seizes $3.6 US seizes $3.6 Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

As first reported in The Guardian , a large data leak unveiled a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers of people that were in the crosshairs of NSO customers dating back to 2016, including more than 180 journalists worldwide. Top public cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) disabled all accounts linked to the Israeli company.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A new version of the Android malware "FurBall" has been discovered to be used by the threat actor(s) known as Domestic Kitten in a campaign targeting Iranian citizens in a mobile surveillance operation.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The exposed data dates back from 2016 and earlier, most of the information belongs to customers from B.C. ” A ll LifeLabs users that share the same password for their LifeLabs account at other sites are recommended to change it. and Ontario. LifeLabs has also reported the incident privacy commissioners and government partners.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

The man was arrested by the FBI in August 2016 , the US DoJ charged Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material. 13, 2016, asked one of the researchers to arrange a conversation with Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky. reported the Politico website. “The A first message sent on Aug.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2016, Verkada is a security company that focuses on surveillance and facial recognition through the use of sophisticated software in security cameras. A list of our client account administrators, including names and email addresses. This list did not include passwords or password hashes.". "A

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

The researchers speculate on a possible connection to Domestic Kitten espionage activities, an extensive surveillance operation conducted by Iranian APT actor aimed at specific groups of individuals since 2016. The attackers appear to be focused o n stealing military-related information.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Someone documented it, and it's worth pointing out that the documentation doesn't apply to Powerpoint 2016. Coinbase, one of the most widely used Bitcoin wallets, has encouraged customers to disconnect their mobile phones from their Coinbase accounts. Washington Post, 2014). I don't know. When it was removed?

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2021

For those victims with publicly available contact information, the FBI will send an e-mail message from an official FBI e-mail account (@FBI.gov) notifying the victim of the search. The FBI requested a rule change for expanded access powers back in 2014 , and it was granted in 2016.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

One major allegation brought forth by the FTC is that, since at least 2016, Zoom misled users by claiming it offered ‘end-to-end, 256-bit encryption’ when in fact it provided a lower level of security. My dissenting colleagues note that the recent revelations regarding a rogue Zoom employee in China, who accessed accounts and meetings of U.S.-based

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Beyond this we also have Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the California Data Privacy Act (CCPA) and much more. The 2016 agreement enabled trans-Atlantic commercial data transfers, but the court said U.S. The problem is not limited to the requirements of GDPR.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Verodin Cybersecurity analytics 2018 Acquired by FireEye Kenna Security Risk management 2018 Acquired by Cisco PhishMe Incident response 2016 Acquired: P.E. Named after the infamous string of nation-state cyber attacks during the late 2000s, NightDragon was established in 2016 by former McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

At its peak in September 2016, Mirai temporarily crippled several high-profile services such as. What’s remarkable about these record-breaking attacks is they were carried out via small, innocuous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like home routers, air-quality monitors, and personal surveillance cameras. August 2016.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

The problem: The FBI warns that during the dismantling of the Moobot botnet, agents detected code from other Russian attackers, including the notorious Fancy Bear (AKA: APT28 or Military Unit 26165) also responsible for the attack on the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) before the 2016 election. and a medium (CVSS 4.3)

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Pegasus is the creation of the NSO Group , an Israeli firm that licenses it to governments to perform surveillance. Media outlets first reported the existence of the spyware in 2016. While ransomware and APT groups may conduct surveillance on their targets before launching an attack, they are seldom concerned with individuals.

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SecureList

JANUARY 20, 2022

In the last year, there have been several public accounts on the ongoing trend of UEFI threats. The intrusion set described in this report, and in other public accounts we referred to, shows that the group did not cease to be active despite these legal proceedings. Revisiting the current state of the art in persistent attacks.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While the newer actors are filling the skills gap quickly, the most advanced parties are scaling to obtain global surveillance capabilities through technological supremacy. A similar incident happened in Kiev for about one hour on December 16, 2016.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. Code for that exploit was part of the Equation Group tools that the Shadow Brokers — again believed to be Russia — stole from the NSA and published in 2016.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 22, 2021

And between 2016 and 2018, more than 1,000 IP addresses were found to be associated with it. Hulio told The Washington Post that his company had terminated the contracts of two customers because of allegations of human rights abuses, but, according to the paper, he refused to disclose which accounts were closed. This is surveillance.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I did attend a SANS Course as a volunteer facilitator for MGT414: “SANS Training Program for CISSP Certification” at the Rocky Mountain SANS 2016 cybersecurity conference. I used (ISC) 2 CBK, SANS training, and lots of books. Did you enroll in any training? I helped the instructor run the class (work-study program).

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

So I'm an activist, security researcher or even whistleblower, we recently came across some stuff where there were leaks of personally identifiable information or some sort of previously unknown surveillance of people or employees. And, you know, I had the Twitter account ID set up in 2018. I think it was 2016. They're there.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Apple Inc has filed a legal suit against NSO Group for developing Pegasus malware that is being illegally used by companies/governments and individuals for conducting cyber surveillance. Note- Israel-based firm NSO Group developed Pegasus for conducting surveillance on mobile phones operating on Android and iOS.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2024

Finally, Congress appears to be heeding lessons available to be learned since the hacking John Podesta’s email account – not to mention all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections, attempting to interfere in 39 states. There’s no change there.”

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

While many envision attacks on smart cars and surveillance cameras, servers exposed to the demilitarized zone (DMZ), such as MoveIT servers , also provide tantalizing edge targets. It’s no secret that the SEC is now holding CISOs accountable for the risks organizations take on.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This strategic shift signals its intent to intensify its surveillance capabilities and expand its range of targets. The stolen cookies can be used later to remotely access victims’ email accounts. In its most recent wave of attacks, BlindEagle has once again adapted, embracing yet another open-source RAT, Agent Tesla.

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