Schneier on Security

MAY 24, 2024

New paper: “ Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market “: Abstract: Spyware makes surveillance simple. The last ten years have also been marked by stark failures to control spyware and its precursors and components.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 22, 2021

Chine Foreign Ministry has issued a public statement condemning the distribution and usage of Pegasus Spyware surveillance software by various countries. Now, to those uninitiated, Israel-based NSO Group developed Pegasus surveillance software that was meant for government organizations to spy on criminal suspects.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Researchers warn of previously undetected surveillance spyware, named NoviSpy, that was found infecting a Serbian journalist’s phone. Then he requested help from Amnesty Internationals Security Lab fearing to be the target of surveillance software like other journalists in Serbia. Development traces back to at least 2018.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2024

According to rumors, the Polish special services are using surveillance software to spy on government opponents. In June 2022, the controversial Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group told the European Union lawmakers that its Pegasus spyware was used by at least five countries in the region.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 15, 2021

Authoritarian and illiberal regimes around the world will increasingly exploit digital tools to surveil their citizens, control free expression, and censor and manipulate information to maintain control over their populations.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Coming out of the Privacy Commissioners' Conference in Albania , Public Voice is launching a petition for an international moratorium on using facial recognition software for mass surveillance. You can sign on as an individual or an organization. You should as well. No, I don't think that countries will magically adopt this moratorium.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

The US NCSC and the Department of State published joint guidance on defending against attacks using commercial surveillance tools. In the last years, we have reported several cases of companies selling commercial surveillance tools to governments and other entities that have used them for malicious purposes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They also argued that the threat of mass surveillance could be enough to infringe on human rights.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2020

Google announced that starting from August it will update its policies to reject ads proposed by organizations offering surveillance software. The move aims at fighting the advertising of any form of surveillance. The tech giant announced that the update will be effective starting from August 11, 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2022

Greek intelligence admitted it had spied on a journalist, while citizens ask the government to reveal the use of surveillance malware. The head of the Greek intelligence told a parliamentary committee that they had spied on a journalist with surveillance malware , Reuters reported citing two sources present. ” reported Reuters.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 22, 2021

Worker's union Prospect warned that the UK was at risk of 'sleepwalking into a world of surveillance' as more businesses turn to digital tools to keep tabs on remote workers.

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Penetration Testing

MARCH 28, 2024

Security researchers at Synology have released a critical security advisory detailing multiple vulnerabilities in their Surveillance Station software.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

WhatsApp linked the hacking campaign to Paragon, an Israeli commercial surveillance vendor acquired by AE Industrial Partners for $900 million in December 2024. The WIS, among other things, allows defendants clients to send cipher files with installation vectors that ultimately allow the clients to surveil target users.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In a groundbreaking investigative report, the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) media network, with technical assistance from Amnesty International's Security Lab, has exposed the shocking extent of the global surveillance crisis and the glaring inadequacies of EU regulation in curbing it. Chairman, Cedric Leighton Associates, LLC.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ukraine’s SBU revealed that Russia-linked threat actors hacked surveillance cameras to spy on air defense forces and critical infrastructure in Kyiv. Ukraine’s SBU announced they shut down two surveillance cameras that were allegedly hacked by the Russian intelligence services to spy on air defense forces and critical infrastructure in Kyiv.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2025

Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance Wired Covers the use of powerful surveillance technology in predicting who might be a "threat." Vulnerabilities and Malware Primarily includes severe and exploited vulnerabilities in devices or software used by end users (ex: a major router firmware flaw).

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2021

Initial estimates were that Russia sent its probes only into a few dozen of the 18,000 government and private networks they gained access to when they inserted code into network management software made by a Texas company named SolarWinds. The October files, distributed to customers on Oct.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 15, 2021

It protects users from fake cell phone towers (IMSI-catchers) and surveillance by cell providers. The PGPP MVNO implementation is in software. “Pretty Good Phone Privacy” (PGPP) protects both user identity and user location using the existing cellular networks. It’s a clever system. Again, this is now MVNOs like Boost already work.)

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

While the vendor did not respond to our security disclosure, we find that the app’s security deficits may not only violate Google’s Unwanted Software Policy and Apple’s App Store guidelines but also China’s own laws and national standards pertaining to privacy protection, providing potential avenues for future redress.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The IT giant fears that the disclosures of its threat intelligence related to commercial spyware operations could aid NSO and other surveillance firms. federal court for illegally targeting its customers with the surveillance spyware Pegasus. ” reads the court filing. reads the announcement published by Apple.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The reason these threats are so real is that it's not difficult to hide surveillance or control infrastructure in computer components, and if they're not turned on, they're very difficult to find. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 19, 2019

But the infrastructure of total surveillance is everywhere the same, and everywhere being deployed at scale. Just like you can't drop out of the oil economy by refusing to drive a car, you can't opt out of the surveillance economy by forswearing technology (and for many people, that choice is not an option).

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 7, 2019

This system claims to detect suspicious behavior that indicates shoplifting: Vaak , a Japanese startup, has developed artificial intelligence software that hunts for potential shoplifters, using footage from security cameras for fidgeting, restlessness and other potentially suspicious body language.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Australian Defense Ministry has issued a ban on the use of Chinese surveillance cameras and products inside all government buildings from now on. Meaning, all new purchases will be halted and the existing hardware and related software will be replaced in a phased manner. So, are all such devices harmful to National Security?

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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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SecureWorld News

APRIL 15, 2024

The change marks a direct call-out of companies like NSO Group that develop sophisticated commercial surveillance tools like Pegasus, which have been abused by authoritarian regimes to pull off "individually targeted attacks of such exceptional cost and complexity." Just last month, the U.S.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 5, 2024

Internet surveillance, and the resultant loss of privacy, is following the same trajectory. The pervasive nature of modern technology makes surveillance easier than ever before, while each successive generation of the public is accustomed to the privacy status quo of their youth.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 17, 2025

Endpoint protection software works like a security system for a digital hotel. They equip each room – in our case work device – with a lock, alarms, video surveillance, etc. Endpoint protection tools act like digital […] The post Best 8 Endpoint Protection Software appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2023

According to the French newspaper Le Monde, law enforcement will be allowed to use spyware for their investigation, the software can remotely spy on the suspects using the microphone and camera of the devices and also collect their GPS location. ”” reads the article published by Le Monde.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 1, 2021

In this blog, let’s take a closer look at software composition analysis, with a focus on security scanning of third-party software components in Cisco software. This has increased awareness and concern among customers and security practitioners, accelerating the need for the proper management and hygiene of third-party software.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2025

. “Typically, the mentioned archives contain a file with the extension “ pdf”, as well as an executable file classified as DarkTortilla, which is a cryptor/loader type software tool, the purpose of which is to decrypt and launch (including by injection) the Dark Crystal RAT (DCRAT) remote control software tool.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

Experts uncovered an enterprise-grade surveillance malware dubbed Hermit used to target individuals in Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy since 2019. Lookout Threat Lab researchers uncovered enterprise-grade Android surveillance spyware, named Hermit, used by the government of Kazakhstan to track individuals within the country.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2025

Security flaws in the platform have previously been leveraged in real incidents, allowing attackers to infiltrate systems, harvest confidential details, or deploy harmful software. .” Due to its popularity, WhatsApp presents an appealing opportunity for threat actors, both financially and politically motivated.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

NSA officials said the agency has been rebuilding trust with the private sector through such measures as offering warnings about software flaws. And if it’s still putting surveillance ahead of security. The agency declined to say how it had updated its policies on obtaining special access to commercial products.

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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. If no Kaspersky security software is installed, the macro directly proceeds to decrypt the next stage’s payload. documents), /??(pictures)

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 10, 2021

Documents reveal that police bought facial-recognition software, vans equipped with x-ray machines, and “stingray” cell site simulators—with no public oversight.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Nexa Technologies was indicted for complicity in acts of torture, the French firm is accused of having sold surveillance equipment to the Egypt. Nexa Technologies offers a range of solutions for homeland security, including surveillance solutions. The software was allegedly used to repress opponents of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.

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