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Privacy Roundup: Week 3 of Year 2025

Security Boulevard

How cars became the worst product category for privacy Session Covers the extensive data collection (and subsequent sharing with car manufacturers and their affiliates) enabled by modern vehicles; they can collect way beyond location data. They regularly use people's personal information to set tailored prices.

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Expert found Russia’s SORM surveillance equipment leaking user data

Security Affairs

A Russian security researcher has found that hardware wiretapping equipment composing Russia’s SORM surveillance system had been leaking user data. SORM is a mass surveillance system that allows the Government of Moscow to track online activities of single individuals thanks to the support of the Russian ISPs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature

Security Affairs

Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates. The flaws reside in a feature named the “XMEye P2P Cloud” that is enabled by default which is used to connect surveillance devices to the cloud infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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An RCE in Annke video surveillance product allows hacking the device

Security Affairs

Researchers from Nozomi Networks discovered a critical vulnerability that can be exploited to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-32941 can be exploited by an attacker to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke, a provider of home and business security solutions.

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GUEST ESSAY: The many ways your supply chain is exposing your company to a cyber attack

The Last Watchdog

Supply chains have vulnerabilities at touchpoints with manufacturers, suppliers, and other service providers.”. Then there are firmware developers, transport agencies, testing facilities, and security evaluation agencies that handle the device before it is sent to the corporate client. Threat detection. Traceability and accountability.

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3 Percent ($30B) of U.S. Military Funding Dedicated to Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

and European manufacturing capabilities have disappeared, leaving few safe manufacturing sources," Staynings said. Many of those may in fact be compromised, as California-based Taiwan manufacturer Supermicro found out with motherboards it produced for Congress. Combatting mis- and dis- information needs to be a top priority."

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Botnet operators target multiple zero-day flaws in LILIN DVRs

Security Affairs

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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