Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Researchers found an updated LightSpy spyware with enhanced data collection features targeting social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. have found an updated version of the LightSpy spyware that supports an expanded set of data collection features to target social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties. Surveillance creep risks violating autonomy. Privacy Rights – Pervasive monitoring and data collection erode privacy rights and dignity. Focus only on proportional responses.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

We’ll also take a closer look at the data broker that got hacked — a background check company founded by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy from Florida. ” On April 7, USDoD posted a sales thread on Breachforums for four terabytes of data — 2.9

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a result, Nickel achieved long-term access to several targets, allowing the group to conduct activities such as regularly scheduled exfiltration of data. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) observed Nickel perform frequent and scheduled data collection and exfiltration from victim networks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Governments in many countries push for easier identification of Internet users to fight cybercrime, as well as “traditional” crime coordinated online. Citizens, for their part, are increasingly concerned with surveillance capitalism , a lack of anonymity and dependence on online services.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a result, Nickel achieved long-term access to several targets, allowing the group to conduct activities such as regularly scheduled exfiltration of data. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) observed Nickel perform frequent and scheduled data collection and exfiltration from victim networks.

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