Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the Italian surveillance firm RCS Labs was helped by some Internet service providers (ISPs) in Italy and Kazakhstan to infect Android and iOS users with their spyware. Then the attackers asked the victims to enable the installation of apps from unknown sources.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2020

To do so, they are using a variety of digital communications and surveillance systems. More recently, in 2018, Russia undertook an extensive disinformation campaign to amplify the anti-vaccination movement using social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. That vulnerability should be deeply concerning.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 27, 2018

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to erupt all across the Internet showing not the faintest hint of leveling off, much less declining, any time soon. Related video: How DDoS attacks leverage the Internet’s DNA. This is borne out by Akamai Technologies’ Summer 2018 Internet Security/Web Attack Report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Russia successfully disconnected from the internet. Russia’s government announced that it has successfully concluded a series of tests for its RuNet intranet aimed at country disconnection from the Internet. One of them is checking the integrity and security of the Internet as a result of external negative influences.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Russia plans to disconnect the country from the internet as part of an experiment aimed at testing the response to cyber attacks that should isolate it. Russia plans to conduct the country from the Internet for a limited period of time to conduct a test aimed at assessing the security of its infrastructure. ” reported ZDNet.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In December 2018, a then 21-year-0ld Troy Woody Jr. 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. ” who said Iza hired him to surveil Zelocchi but ultimately refused to pay him for much of the work.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

Syrian-linked APT group SEA recently used COVID-19-themed lures as part of a long-running surveillance campaign, security researchers warn. Syrian hackers are behind a long-running campaign that has been active since January 2018 and that targets Arabic-speaking Android users. ” reads the analysis published by the Lookout.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The commercial reel advertises just one of the many video analytics tools available for download on an app store monitored by the Internet of Things startup Azena, itself a project from the German kitchen appliance maker Bosch. Such promises on video analysis have flooded the market for years, but their accuracy has always been suspect.

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SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

From 2015 to February 2018, the malware was compiled with Visual Studio 2013 and 2015, whereas in February 2018, the developers moved to Visual Studio 2017 and embedded the malware’s logic within Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) classes.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

An employee at Amnesty International has been targeted with Israeli surveillance malware, the news was revealed by the human rights group. Amnesty International revealed that one of its employees was targeted with a surveillance malware developed by an Israeli firm. com , pine-sales[.]com com , and ecommerce-ads[.]org.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

Terpin alleges that crooks stole almost $24 million worth of cryptocurrency after fraudulently executing a “SIM swap” on his mobile phone account at AT&T in early 2018. Terpin claims an investigation by AT&T into the 2018 breach found that an employee at an AT&T store in Norwich, Conn.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2018

A vulnerability in the Guardzilla home video surveillance system could be exploited by users to watch Guardzilla footage of other users. The Guardzilla All-In-One Video Security System is an indoor video surveillance solution. ” read a post published by 0dayallday.org. ” reads the analysis published by Rapid7.

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 21, 2022

online chat messages going over the Internet between you and your significant other) and when it is at rest (e.g., Today, October 21, marks the first ever organized Global Encryption Day, dedicated to spreading awareness of the importance of utilizing encryption to protect sensitive information, both when it is in transit (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2023

According to rumors, the Polish special services are using surveillance software to spy on government opponents. In 2021, the University of Toronto-based Citizen Lab Internet reported that a Polish opposition duo was hacked with NSO spyware. The politicians who inspired and commissioned these activities belong in prison.”

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2019

These are the carriers that provide Internet access to rural areas all across America. In July 2015, researchers at FireEye described how hackers successfully modified the firmware of certain types of Cisco routers , putting themselves in prime position to surveil the victim’s network and potentially move laterally to different machines.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Many governments worldwide persecute their internal oppositions charging them with criminal activities and use strict online surveillance to track them. The surveillance software developed by NSO Group was used by government organizations worldwide to spy on human rights groups , activists, journalists, lawyers, and dissidents.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In November 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US Government was urging its allies to exclude Huawei from critical infrastructure and 5G architectures. Huawei issued a statement on Wednesday denying any accusation, it “has never and will never covertly access telecom networks, nor do we have the capability to do so.”.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In late September 2018, the REACT Task Force spearheaded an investigation that led to the arrest of two Missouri men — both in their early 20s — who are accused of conducting SIM swaps to steal $14 million from a cryptocurrency company based in San Jose, Calif. . million customers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

In October 2019, security experts at Amnesty International’s Security Lab have uncovered targeted attacks against Moroccan human rights defenders Maati Monjib and Abdessadak El Bouchattaoui that employed NSO Group surveillance tools. This attack scenario sees attackers monitoring and manipulating the Internet traffic of the target.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices. The CVE-2018-9995 flaw is due to an error when handling a maliciously crafted HTTP cookie. At this time, the vendor has yet to release security patches to address the flaw.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

Microsoft declared that an Emotet attack took down an organization’s network by overheating all the computers and bringing its Internet access down. ” Media speculate that the attack described in the DART report is the one that hit the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania in February 2018.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The new “ Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020 ” report describes attacks on various industries and critical infrastructure facilities, as well as campaigns aimed at destabilization of the Internet in certain countries. Internet destabilization at state level. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2019

NSO Group ‘s surveillance spyware made the headlines again, this time the malware was used to spy on 2 rights activists in Morocco according Amnesty International. Amnesty International collected evidence of new abuses of the NSO Group ‘s surveillance spyware, this time the malware was used to spy two rights activists in Morocco.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

This week a controversial law entered into effect in Russia, it would allow the government to cut internet traffic from the global Internet. This week a controversial law entered into effect in Russia, it would allow the Russian government to disconnect the country from the global Internet.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Anyone and everyone is at risk, and even technology giants like Apple are ill-equipped to deal with the massive scale of surveillance at hand.”. Accepting processing messages from anyone is the equivalent of running a network connected to the internet with no firewall.”. Both incidents occurred in 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

percent from 2018. We know about this thanks to researchers at FireEye who discovered hackers successfully modifying the firmware of certain types of Cisco routers , putting themselves in prime position to surveil the victim’s network and potentially move laterally to different machines. I’ll keep watch.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

In the last few years, fueled partly by the pandemic, internet traffic has exploded, growing at an annual rate of 30% between 2018 and 2022. Not every house needs a state-of-the-art surveillance system. But if your house is under continual attack by bad actors, you’re going to want to be prepared.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Germany and the Netherlands agreded to build TEN, the first ever joint military internet. Germany and the Netherlands agreed to build TEN, the first ever joint military internet. China installs a surveillance app on tourists phones while crossing in the Xinjiang. Sodin Ransomware includes exploit for Windows CVE-2018-8453 bug.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Accel Investments. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

And because none of the major browser vendors had enough market share to “ embrace, extend and extinguish “, as Microsoft had attempted when Internet Explorer was dominant, everyone was forced to follow the same open standards. Everyone benefitted. Unfortunately, as good as it is, Firefox is on shaky ground.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2018

Positive Technologies discovered two flaws affecting Dongguan Diqee 360 smart vacuums that can be used to perform video surveillance. The two vulnerabilities have been tracked as CVE-2018-10987 and CVE-2018-10988 , the former could be exploited by a remote attacker meanwhile the latter needs physical access to the device.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From facial recognition to surveillance cameras to time trackers or just having a couple guys standing over employees’ shoulders, there are a multitude of ways to make sure employees are staying on-task and being productive. Businesses have long wondered if employees are staying focused and doing their jobs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

The adoption of emerging technologies like 5G will fuel the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) that’s often built with only a few security controls and therefore creating a larger attack surface that enterprises have to deal with., So what’s in store for data privacy and the rollout of of 5G technology?

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 4, 2021

Sites you bought goods from tended to use HTTPS so your credit card number couldn’t be intercepted as it traversed the Internet. It first mentioned this move way back in 2018 , when it said “Users should expect that the web is safe by default”. But random blogs? Information portals? Not so much.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 8, 2019

» Related Stories Spotlight: as Attacks Mount, how to secure the Industrial Internet Die Hard is a Movie About Building Automation Insecurity. Podcast 127: Donnie, Talk to China and Other Lessons from 2018. Its clearer than ever that the Internet of Things is getting bigger – and CES is a showcase for new IoT technologies.

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