The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

Mobile eye-tracking can be used to learn how much we understand while reading. Despite warnings from cybersecurity academics, whistleblowers or former NSA and CIA agents, the general public shows no animosity toward metadata surveillance. LW contributor Goddy Ray is a content manager and researcher at Surfshark VPN.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. Cape is a mobile carrier startup claiming to provide a more secure and private service alternative to traditional telecommunications services. They also have appeared to partner with Proton.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2019

Innovative Connecting is actually a Chinese company that secretly owns 10 VPN products with a total of 86 million installs under its belt. The study also revealed that two of those VPN products are under its other developer name, Lemon Clove, and another two by Autumn Breeze 2018. Innovative Connecting VPNs products.

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SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

Unfortunately, we were unable to obtain the underlying samples and can therefore only assume that these are malicious implants targeted at mobile users, developed and leveraged by the threat actor. com/ddd/classes.dex. hxxp://updatei[.]com/hr.apk. com/hr.apk. For example, “aparat.com-view[.]space”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

CISA adds Apple, Oracle Agile PLM bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog More than 2,000 Palo Alto Networks firewalls hacked exploiting recently patched zero-days Ransomhub ransomware gang claims the hack of Mexican government Legal Affairs Office US DoJ charges five alleged members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime gang Threat actor (..)

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2023

And according to a study made by cybersecurity specialists from NORDVPN, this phenomenon is taking place in practical, and half of the Britons fear that their mobile devices are collecting data eavesdropped from their personal conversation and perhaps passing the info to hackers in control of remote servers.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 26, 2024

Albert Fox-Cahn, executive director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) said: “No one should fear a knock at the door from police simply because of what the YouTube algorithm serves up. It also encourages users to use a VPN for even the most harmless activities and discourages YouTube visitors from logging in.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 28, 2022

Long story short it's an OTR and OpenPGP-based communication protocol that actually has a lot of new improvements in terms of privacy and security including interoperability between multiple IM clients and mobile applications courtesy of different vendors. Protocol Introduction. What exactly is OMEMO? ChatSecure. Conversations.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 7, 2024

In an email, Google told users that they will have until December 1, 2024 to save all travels to their mobile devices before the company starts deleting old data. But this was part of a settlement in a lawsuit accusing the search giant of illegal surveillance. Keep your online privacy yours by using Malwarebytes Privacy VPN.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When we wrote this prediction, we were mainly thinking about a continuation of all the malicious activities targeting VPN appliances. We nevertheless observed some threat actors, such as APT10, who were exploiting these vulnerabilities to hijack VPN sessions. Mobile devices exposed to wide attacks. More supply chain attacks.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

webmail.finance.gov.lb), which allowed them to decrypt the intercepted email and VPN credentials and view them in plain text. adpvpn.adpolice.gov.ae: VPN service for the Abu Dhabi Police. Talos reported that these DNS hijacks also paved the way for the attackers to obtain SSL encryption certificates for the targeted domains (e.g.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

Mobile statistics IT threat evolution Q1 2024. The common methods for analyzing an iOS mobile infection are either to examine an encrypted full iOS backup or to analyze the network traffic of the affected device. This is a text-based system log file available on every mobile iOS device.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

And it might have been prepared for this moment, years ago, as a surveillance tool. It's easy to put surveillance on telecoms if you have a foothold," Kubecka said. Of course, people in Russia who can convince the Internet they aren't in Russia can still access these services through use of a VPN—a virtual private network.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2024

Both include good mobile apps for Android and iOS, as well as browser extensions, although Keeper offers wider support options for OS and browsers. Passwordless authentication: Accepts third-party passwordless authentication like QR codes, mobile authenticator apps, one-time passwords, and more.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Bad Packets warns of over 14,500 Pulse secure VPN endpoints vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510. A new variant of Trickbot banking Trojan targets Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint users. Expert found Russias SORM surveillance equipment leaking user data. Once again thank you! Magecart hackers compromise another 80 eCommerce sites.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Snowden speaks about the role of surveillance firm NSO Group in Khashoggi murder. VPN vs. proxy: which is better to stay anonymous online? VMware releases security patches for a critical virtual machine escape flaw. Nginx server security flaws expose more than a million of servers to DoS attacks.

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SC Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Legacy VPN, and related technologies, aren’t just slow, they’re characteristic of technologies that rely on implicit trust. For example, many legacy VPN clients cause mobile apps to break when re-establishing connections after a network transition).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

5G connectivity brings new capabilities such as IoT, virtual reality, gaming, remote surgeries, real time mass-data updates for mobile devices, connected cars, sensors, etc. According to Ericsson’s Mobility Report 2022, mobile consumers devour an estimated 90 exabytes a month, aka 90 billion gigabytes! layer 2, layer 3 or 4).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From facial recognition to surveillance cameras to time trackers or just having a couple guys standing over employees’ shoulders, there are a multitude of ways to make sure employees are staying on-task and being productive. Check Out Secure Access for Remote Workers: RDP, VPN & VDI. What is Employee Monitoring and Why Use It?

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. And watchdog groups say its products are often found to be used in surveillance abuses.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 20, 2023

For better protection, put a privacy protector screen on your mobile phone, tablet, and laptop to help protect your sensitive information from spying eyes. If you have to log in to your accounts in a public area, make sure to use a VPN for extra security or utilize your phone’s hotspot. Avoid Reusing Passwords.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Bessemer Venture Partners. Insight Investments. Paladin Capital Group. Redpoint Ventures. Sequoia Investments.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 20, 2022

To catch them, administration policies on continuous surveillance and periodic assessments should be in place. Read next: Best Enterprise VPN Solutions. But breaches can also be caused by a poorly written policy, improper configurations, coding mistakes, unauthorized access points (APs), and other WLAN vulnerabilities.

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McAfee

MAY 26, 2020

using inadequately secured private or mobile devices (lack of antivirus software, out-of-date operating system software, no encryption solutions, etc.) using inadequately secured private or mobile devices (lack of antivirus software, out-of-date operating system software, no encryption solutions, etc.) With respect to the organization.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The victim was infected by PowerShell malware and we discovered evidence that the actor had already stolen data from the victim and had been surveilling this victim for several months. To surveil the victim, the list includes target folders as well as /Camera, /Recordings, /KakaoTalk (a renowned Korean messenger), /??(documents),

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A VPN provides a secure channel for users to send and retrieve sensitive data using public infrastructure – the Internet. Read on to find more answers to “What is a VPN?” Authentication: Users must prove to the VPN they are who they claim to be to have access to the network. and other important details. Who doesn’t?

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

On June 3, Check Point published a report about an ongoing surveillance operation targeting a Southeast Asian government, and attributed the malicious activities to a Chinese-speaking threat actor named SharpPanda. The samples we analyzed mimicked various applications such as private messaging, VPN, and media services.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Strong segmentation with firewalls and DMZs, securing VPN gateways, and ensuring encrypted traffic with TLS v1.3 The Salt Typhoon group targeted surveillance systems used by the US government to investigate crimes and threats to national security, including activities carried out by nation-state actors.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The attackers used vulnerabilities in an SSL-VPN product to deploy a multi-layered loader we dubbed Ecipekac (aka DESLoader, SigLoader and HEAVYHAND). Domestic Kitten is a threat group mainly known for its mobile backdoors. We attribute this activity to APT10 with high confidence. Other interesting discoveries.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Mobile devices exposed to wide attacks. Although 2022 did not feature any mobile intrusion story on the scale of the Pegasus scandal, a number of 0-days have still been exploited in the wild by threat actors. But first, let’s examine how they fared with the predictions for 2022. What we predicted in 2022. Drone hacking!

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 29, 2024

Surveillance of this kind violates Americans' Fourth Amendment rights and was argued to have done so in a 2020 border agency situation. Fortunately, location isn't accurate enough yet to feasibly provide all the details, yet the feds are demanding it, and companies such as AT&T and T-Mobile are providing it.

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