SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2023

The Google Play Store, a widely-trusted source for Android applications, has recently become a battleground for a concerning wave of spyware with ties to China. Operating under the radar, these apps silently collect and transmit sensitive data to servers based in China, posing significant risks to user data security and privacy.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2025

Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users Gizmodo An owner of a data broker business brags and showcases his company's ability to deliver "personalized messaging at scale." Of course, personalized in this context means leveraging extensive amounts of data collected on people.

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Surveillance Data breaches Spyware Malware 59

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

Experts spotted a rare Linux Desktop spyware dubbed EvilGnome. Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused. Scraping the TOR for rare contents. The Problem With the Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Act.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In 2022, tech publication TechCrunch discovered that TheTruthSpy and other spyware apps share a common Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability, CVE-2022-0732. The publications described the bug as “extremely easy to exploit, and grants unfettered remote access to all of the data collected from a victim’s Android device.”

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Unlike traditional antivirus programs, which primarily focus on viruses, anti-malware solutions address a wider array of threats, including spyware, adware, ransomware, and trojans. While effective, some users have privacy concerns about Avast’s data collection on user behavior. Visit Avast 5.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2019

The domain name used for the sniffer’s codes storage and as a gate for stolen data collection was registered on May 7, 2018. We dubbed this JS Sniffer family GMO because the malware uses gmo[.]li li host.”. GMO can detect Firebug and Google Developer Tools, which allows the sniffer to remain undetected.

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eCommerce Marketing Data breaches Advertising 110

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It also does not make you anonymous to your internet service provider (ISP) or protect you from adware or spyware that might be tracking your online behavior, cryptominers, or worse. Following Yandex is the local Tehran-based company Yektan (4.52%), which collects and analyzes data for advertising services.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Data collected by the Internet Storm Center dug into “Survival Time History”, which is “calculated as the average time between reports for an average target IP address. The pop up blocker in particular was a big help with the proliferation of adware and spyware plugging into advertising networks.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

Data privacy, and privacy policies, are an “uncool” story for many. Yet much of the bad old days of Adware/spyware from 2005 – 2008 was dependent on bad policies and leaky data sharing. Everyone wants to see the latest hacks, or terrifying takeovers. While companies would occasionally be brought before the FTC , this was rare.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This politician became the target of a previously undiscovered “zero-day” attack aimed at infecting his phone with spyware. This may include automatic data collection from the victim’s online presence, such as social media posts, media comments, or authored columns: any content associated with the victim’s identity.

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SecureList

JULY 27, 2023

Following this, we released the first of a series of additional reports describing the final payload in the infection chain: a highly sophisticated spyware implant that we dubbed “TriangleDB” Operating in memory, this implant periodically communicates with the C2 (command and control) infrastructure to receive commands.

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SecureList

MARCH 13, 2024

To calculate the statistics, data from the consumer line of Kaspersky’s mobile security solutions was reviewed according to the Coalition Against Stalkerware detection criteria. Other types of monitoring or spyware apps that fall outside of the Coalition’s definition are not included in the statistics found here.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Kaspersky has been tracking deployments of this spyware since 2011. Based on the data collected by the Post-Validator, it is most likely that: The Post-Validator is deployed to ensure that the infected victim is the intended one. FinSpy, also known as FinFisher or Wingbird , is an infamous surveillance toolset.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

I have access to AI tools in a way that I don’t have access to data collection regimes. There’s an entire industry of super creepy spyware that is sold to people who want to spy on their wives and girlfriends. What about people? So, are people going to spy on people? It’s more one-on-one.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Both can be used to steal user data, collect information about the corporate network, and spread additional malware, such as ransomware. Noon spyware (4.89%) moved up to second place, and Badun Trojans (4.61%) spreading as archived electronic documents moved down to third place.

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Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 118

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Cisco warns of a ClamAV bug with PoC exploit International Press Newsletter Cybercrime UnitedHealth Estimates Change Healthcare Hack Impacted About 190 Million People TalkTalk investigating data breach after hacker claims theft of customer data Law enforcement takes down two largest cybercrime forums in the world New York Blood Center Enterprises (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

Ransomware gangs exploit a Paragon Partition Manager BioNTdrv.sys driver zero-day Microsoft disrupted a global cybercrime ring abusing Azure OpenAI Service Attackers could hack smart solar systems and cause serious damages Enhanced capabilities sustain the rapid growth of Vo1d botnet Cisco fixed command injection and DoS flaws in Nexus switches China-linked (..)

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