Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2025

Paragon Solutions is an Israeli company which sells high-end surveillance technology primarily to government clients, positioning its products as essential for combating crime and national security. CitizenLab focuses on studying information controls that impact the openness and security of the internet and pose threats to human rights.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This flaw lets attackers bypass Microsoft’s “ Mark of the Web ,” a Windows security feature that marks files downloaded from the Internet as potentially unsafe. Because from where I sit, Recall is a feature nobody asked for that turns Windows into a bug (of the surveillance variety).

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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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Webroot

MARCH 9, 2021

For even more tips from Webroot IT security experts Tyler Moffitt, Kelvin Murray, Grayson Milbourne, George Anderson and Jonathan Barnett, download the complete e-book on hacker personas. Once the criminal redirects internet traffic to malicious websites or takes control of servers, the damage is inevitable. The Impersonator.

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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. AndoServer samples are purely surveillance software used to spy on the victims, while SLRat is as an Android remote admin tool. ” reads the analysis published by the Lookout.

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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. If your smartphone is vulnerable to a downloaded exploit, it doesn't matter how secure the networking protocols are. In other cases, it's impossible.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2024

The experts observed the APT deploying Headlace in three distinct phases from April to December 2023, respectively, using phishing, compromised internet services, and living off the land binaries. Victims who failed these checks downloaded a benign file and were redirected to Microsoft’s web portal, msn.com.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 29, 2020

This can be done by downloading the app, and then declaring himself or herself to be infected, when that’s not the case. Privacy advocates worry that government authorities and the tech giants inevitably will use COVID-19 as an excuse to intensify surveillance, over broadly. One or the other seems certain to unfold. I’ll keep watch.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Despite people generally considering the Tor network as an essential tool for anonymous browsing, german law enforcement agencies have managed to de-anonymize Tor users after putting surveillance on Tor servers for months. Tor enhances privacy by directing internet traffic through a minimum of three randomly chosen routers, or nodes.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) linked three exploitation frameworks to a Spanish surveillance spyware vendor named Variston. TAG’s research suggests that the above issues were utilized as zero-days in the wild by the surveillance vendor. Heliconia Files framework delivers a Firefox exploit chain for Windows and Linux.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Except for the first-stage loader and the PipeShell plugin, all plugins are downloaded from the C2 and then loaded into memory, leaving no trace on disk. Each time the system restarts, or as required by the operation, P8 downloads additional plugins from the C2 or loads them from disk into memory.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. 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."

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

Your phone traffic is routed through the tunnel, where it’s protected from surveillance, before joining the internet. The Internet is a complex place, with countless servers hosting trillions of web pages, visited by billions of machines every day. VPNs encrypt your iPhone’s app traffic.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Its business activities include the provision of services for hard disk recorders, video codes, video servers, surveillance cameras, monitoring of ball machine, road mounts and other products, as well as security services. In general it is a good idea not make your cameras accessible from the internet and if you do, put them behind a VPN.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2022

“The purpose of the implant is to facilitate the deployment of user-mode malware that stages execution of further payloads downloaded from the internet;” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. A UEFI bootkit implanted in the firmware could not be detected by AVs and any defense solution running on the OS level.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The spyware is delivered to specific users via SMS text messages containing download links. Sophos suspects that the apps are delivered to specific users by means of SMS text messages linking to downloads.” The app asks the user to Enable the device admin permission or “system won’t secure your internet connection.”.

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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. Download full report. While interesting, this shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 22, 2021

Think of it as a private tunnel that allows you to connect to the internet without being tracked or traced by your internet service provider (ISP), advertisers, cybercriminals and others. Initially, the VPN was created for remote employees to send and receive corporate files through a secure internet connection.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

CVE-2019-2234 flaws in Android Camera Apps exposed millions of users surveillance. DePriMon downloader uses a never seen installation technique. Belorussian authorities blocked ProtonMail following a wave of bomb threats. CTHoW v2.0 – Cyber Threat Hunting on Windows. Ransomware infected systems at state government of Louisiana.

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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. Upon exploiting the flaw, the bot will be downloaded into the system to deploy a Monero miner. from visual-tools.com.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2023

The company then filed a motion to dismiss the case in the US Court of Appeals, insisting it should be granted immunity, much to the dismay of a number of organizations: Microsoft, Google, Cisco, GitHub, LinkedIn, VMWare, and Internet Association (IA). Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2019

Hudson: You can somebody to click on a website, using a falsified machine identity, and then download them some ransomware, or put keystroke stealer, or any kind of information harvesting malware. Machine identities are foundational in our digital transformation, because everything that’s going onto the Internet is all built on machines.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2022

This works like any other browser download, with a lot of the same functionality. From the Tor browser manual : Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows you to improve your privacy and security on the Internet. The last relay in the circuit (the “exit relay”) then sends the traffic out onto the public Internet.

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Tor (The Onion Router) network protects users from tracking, surveillance, and censorship. The Tor network can be used to access the regular Internet, where it hides your IP address from everyone, including the people operating the Tor network itself, or the Dark Web, where everyone’s IP address is hidden from everyone else.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2023

With the increasing need for online privacy and security, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have become a popular solution for internet users. VPNs allow users to access the internet securely and privately by encrypting their internet traffic and hiding their IP addresses. Or do you need a VPN for general internet use?

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Internet protocol-based video solutions are increasingly important in getting the best insights to the right people at the right time, especially in the context of C4ISR. C4ISR stands for Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR).

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Among other malicious features, LuminosityLink allowed Grubbs’ customers to record the keys that victims pressed on their keyboards, surveil victims using their computers’ cameras and microphones, view and download the computers’ files, and steal names and passwords used to access websites.”

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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. Updates for Samsung, the scam app with 10M+ downloads.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2023

Footage from technology used to monitor Amazon delivery drivers is leaking onto the internet. AI-enabled equipment which keeps an eye on the drivers’ speed, location, and other activities is part of the growing trend of workplace surveillance. Keep threats off your devices by downloading Malwarebytes today.

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Google Security

AUGUST 1, 2024

These devices are commonly used for security and privacy attacks, such as surveillance and interception of communications. SMS Blasters are sold on the internet and do not require deep technical expertise. In recent years, carriers have started reporting new types of abuse perpetrated with FBSs for the purposes of financial fraud.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

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. Pulitzer Prize-winning business journalist Byron V.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 18, 2022

The latest Sysrv variant scans the Internet for web servers that have security holes offering opportunities such as path traversal, remote file disclosure, and arbitrary file download bugs. Another strategy to looks at is whether all the servers that are at risk need to be Internet-facing.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

For example, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for up to two weeks, preventing easy detection of this behaviour in sandboxes. It then downloads and installs the miner. This payload uses JavaScript API to run bash commands in order to download a JSON configuration file.

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