Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The IntelSecrets nickname corresponds to an individual who has claimed responsibility for modifying the source code for the Mirai “Internet of Things” botnet to create a variant known as “ Satori ,” and supplying it to others who used it for criminal gain and were later caught and prosecuted. since 2017.

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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. It shouldn’t. This is not innovation. It’s experimentation without foresight.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 3, 2019

Pervasive surveillance capitalism­ -- as practiced by the Internet companies that are already spying on everyone -- ­matters. This isn't sustainable, either for this issue or any of the other policy issues surrounding Internet security. So does society's underlying security needs. We need public-interest technologists.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has launched a project to catalog all of the AI ethics declarations made by public and commercial organizations. We know this thanks to a report put out by New York University’s AI Now Institute in December 2019. AI tools are designed to put people into categories, Shashanka says.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

Since the internet, especially the "internet of things," is expected to rely heavily on 5G infrastructure, potential Chinese infiltration is a serious national security threat. But keeping untrusted companies like Huawei out of Western infrastructure isn't enough to secure 5G. Already problems are being discovered.

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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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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2018

When Marc Zuckerberg testified before both the House and the Senate last month, it became immediately obvious that few US lawmakers had any appetite to regulate the pervasive surveillance taking place on the internet. Surveillance is the business model of the internet. But the market is broken.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

Experts observed multiple botnets exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in DVRs for surveillance systems manufactured by Taiwan-based LILIN. Botnet operators are exploiting several zero-day vulnerabilities in digital video recorders (DVRs) for surveillance systems manufactured by Taiwan-based LILIN-.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Last year, the group published a detailed analysis on how the Chinese government has improved its surveillance system to detect and block the popular circumvention tools Shadowsocks and its variants. Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

German law enforcement agencies have been surveilling Tor network by operating their own servers for months. Research conducted by ARD’s Panorama and STRG_F revealed that data collected during surveillance is processed using statistical methods, effectively breaking Tor’s anonymity. ” reported the NDR.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Tianfu Cup 2019 Day 1 – Chinese experts hacked Chrome, Edge, Safari, Office365. Tianfu Cup 2019 – 11 teams earned a total of 545,000 for their Zero-Day Exploits. CVE-2019-2234 flaws in Android Camera Apps exposed millions of users surveillance. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived!

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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. The incident also affected the surveillance camera network of the company along with the finance department.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. “The stolen information is likely to be exploited for surveillance or intelligence gathering on specific groups and or individuals.” Reduce the number of systems that can be reached over internet using SSH.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Group-IB, has analyzed key recent changes to the global cyberthreat landscape in the “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020” report. According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

CVE-2019-19781 Citrix flaw exposes 80,000 companies at risk. RuNet – Russia successfully concluded tests on its Internet infrastructure. NVIDIA patches CVE-2019-5702 high-severity flaw in GeForce Experience. Thai Officials confirmed the hack of prison surveillance cameras and the video broadcast.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

According to the media, these are the largest penalties imposed by the Kremlin on Western IT firms under internet use laws since 2012. This isn’t the first time that Twitter and Facebook were fined by the Kremlin, in 2019 the Russian watchdog punished both with a $47-fine for violating the same personal data regulation.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 29, 2019

Date and time: Start: June 11, 2019, 9:00 AM EST End: June 11, 2019, 4:30 PM EST. Location: Shopify 150 Elgin Street 14th floor Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1L4 Canada. The particular case of e-commerce Are Internet giants the guardians of democracy on the Internet? CPD accreditation.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Tech consultancy IDC tells us that global spending on security hardware, software and services is on course to top $103 billion in 2019, up 9.4 I had the chance to visit with Willy Leichter, Virsec’s vice president of marketing, at Black Hat 2019. percent from 2018. I’ll keep watch.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The software, known as stalkerware, is commercially available to everyone with access to the internet. The Coalition Against Stalkerware warns that stalkerware “may facilitate intimate partner surveillance, harassment, abuse, stalking, and/or violence.” The issue of, and the story behind, stalkerware.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Because remote attacks on the internet are similar in nature — an attacker can instantly “travel” to any “door” in order to attempt a theft. While headlines like to broadcast doom and gloom for biometrics, such as the 2019 BlackHat USA demonstration against Face ID , the truth is these biometrics are really quite secure.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2023

If you recall, WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against NSO in 2019 under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for allegedly targeting and installing spyware on roughly 1,400 devices of its global users, including human rights activists, journalists, and government officials. The court didn't explain why it refused to hear the NSO's appeal.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

Internet-connected smart devices, like surveillance cams, smart light bulbs, smart locks and doorbells and baby monitors, are notoriously fraught with vulnerabilities, posing grave security risks. Bitdefender saw a 338% increase in Smart TV vulnerabilities compared to 2019. While interesting, this shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It went into effect on 13 th August 2020 and addresses the new prohibition on the use of banned telecommunications equipment and services, while also clarifying the ban from 2019 on buying such equipment. the telecommunications and video surveillance services or equipment they work with.?? contractor or subcontractor and,?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2019

For a full drill down on our most recent conversation, at RSA 2019 , give a listen to the accompanying podcast. Their report stated that a machine identity expired, which caused the network surveillance to stop working, and this allowed intruders to get in without begin detected to find and exfiltrate 150 million records.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We met at Black Hat 2019. Instead of encrypting the hard drives of individual victims, and demanding payments of a few hundred dollars, a skilled team collaborated to break into an organization’s network; surveil the network layout; and then embed the malware. Sophos Senior Security Advisor John Shier broke it down for me.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Operators behind the FreakOut (aka Necro, N3Cr0m0rPh) Python botnet have added a PoC exploit for Visual Tools DVR, a professional digital video recorder used in surveillance video systems. CVE-2019-12725 – Zeroshell 3.9.0. The POC exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly available since July 2021. P4410-V2-1.28

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Vulnerable devices could be used to spread malware within the enterprise, used for corporate espionage, surveillance of personnel, or plan whaling phishing campaigns. Avast explains that one of the biggest IoT security threats is the use of vulnerable devices to access organizations’ network and thus may gain access to sensitive information.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Russian government asks all Internet service providers and VPN providers operating in the country to provide information about their users. “The company responded with a categorical refusal to Roskomnadzor’s repeated requests for information to be included in the register of information dissemination organizers on the Internet. .

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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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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. Cyber Defense Magazine – July 2019 has arrived. China installs a surveillance app on tourists phones while crossing in the Xinjiang.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Cashdollar will be at Defcon (@_larry0) August 6, 2019. I guess Richard is trying hard to get popular ^^ pic.twitter.com/xA1Tn2o3z1 — Carlos Brendel (@carbreal) August 6, 2019. Cashdollar will be at Defcon (@_larry0) August 6, 2019. My list of the previous 26 exploits for Echobot [link] — Larry W.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

Harvard business professor Dr. Shoshana Zuboff lays out how and why control of online privacy has become a linchpin to the current state of wealth distribution in her 2019 New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In one case, ExtraHop tracked a made-in-China surveillance cam sending UDP traffic logs , every 30 minutes, to a known malicious IP address with ties to China. We met at Black Hat 2019. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 30, 2021

Your IP address on the Internet, which is in most cases is assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), and changes from time to time. You can learn your current Internet IP address by looking at this site. For a device to be able to use the Internet protocol it needs to have IP software and an IP address.

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