Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the Italian surveillance firm RCS Labs was helped by some Internet service providers (ISPs) in Italy and Kazakhstan to infect Android and iOS users with their spyware. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The United Arab Emirates denied reports that the popular mobile app ToTok was used as part of a government massive surveillance program. According to a report recently published by the New York Times , the popular app ToTok was used by the UAE government as a surveillance tool. SecurityAffairs – ToTok, surveillance).

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Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2019

This is exactly the policy debate we should be having­not the fake one about whether or not we can have both security and surveillance. I served for many years as the general counsel of a large telecommunications concern. That telecommunications company was GTE­which became Verizon.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

This is exactly the policy debate we should be having -- not the fake one about whether or not we can have both security and surveillance. I served for many years as the general counsel of a large telecommunications concern. That telecommunications company was GTE -- which became Verizon.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

“Like the entire telecommunications industry, T-Mobile has been closely monitoring ongoing reports about a series of highly coordinated cyberattacks by bad actors known as “Salt Typhoon” that are reported to be linked to Chinese state-sponsored operations. ” reads the report published by the telecommunications company.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

App developers, credit card, telecommunication companies, and others use the term “anonymous data” because it sells. Despite warnings from cybersecurity academics, whistleblowers or former NSA and CIA agents, the general public shows no animosity toward metadata surveillance. But anonymous data really doesn’t exist anymore.

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Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The United States government, through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has banned the sale of equipment from Chinese telecommunications and video surveillance vendor Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, and Dahua due "unacceptable risks to national security". [.].

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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. The experts found 71 malicious Android applications that were connecting to the same C2 server having an IP address linked to the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

The Register reports that the secret structures of GCHQ are part of the surveillance programme codenamed “CIRCUIT” and also refers to an Overseas Processing Centre 1 (OPC-1), while another centre, OPC-2, has been planned, according to documents leaked by Snowden. In the documents, the company is referred to as a “partner” codenamed Gerontic.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It went into effect on 13 th August 2020 and addresses the new prohibition on the use of banned telecommunications equipment and services, while also clarifying the ban from 2019 on buying such equipment. the telecommunications and video surveillance services or equipment they work with.?? government and industry. .

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Key cybersecurity provisions Securing communications networks Five billion dollars is allocated to help local telecommunications providers replace potentially insecure Chinese technology (e.g., Reforming surveillance practices Proposals to restrict Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) were left out.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2022

. “We’re publishing the details of a new vulnerability (tracked under CVE-2022-30563) affecting the implementation of the Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) WS-UsernameToken authentication mechanism in some IP cameras developed by Dahua, a very popular manufacturer of IP-based surveillance solutions.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Businesses and homeowners increasingly rely on internet protocol (IP) cameras for surveillance. Since this is a convenient and cheap tool to surveil anything from a parking lot, a warehouse, your doorstep, or even monitor your child’s sleep using a baby camera, it’s not surprising to see a surge in IP camera usage.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

These insecurities are a result of market forces that prioritize costs over security and of governments, including the United States, that want to preserve the option of surveillance in 5G networks. The geopolitics of 5G are complicated, involving a lot more than security.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) uncovered a new targeted attack on the information and telecommunication systems of Ukrainian government entities. The new malicious code act as surveillance software, they implement surveillance capabilities and remote administration features.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2022

The group’s victims are mainly in the telecommunications, government (IT services), and oil sectors. According to the Congressional Research Service, the MOIS “conducts domestic surveillance to identify regime opponents. It also surveils anti-regime activists abroad through its network of agents placed in Iran’s embassies.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 28, 2022

NOTE 1- A ICS is an instrumentation of a digital control system in industries that are into the process of chemicals, pulp, paper production, power generation, water supply and oil and gas processing, along with telecommunication.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

The group targets government entities, Kurdish (political) groups like PKK, telecommunication, ISPs, IT-service providers (including security companies), NGO, and Media & Entertainment sectors; Over the years, the group enhanced its evasion capabilities. Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The Agency calls for proposals on solutions that could support NATO’s command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) and of course to improve cyber capabilities.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

At the end of January, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

“This activity was typically only within reach of intelligence agencies or surveillance contractors, but now Motherboard has confirmed that this capability is much more widely available in the hands of financially-driven cybercriminal groups, who are using it to empty bank accounts. ” said the Bank spokesman.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

The Chafer APT group has distributed data stealer malware since at least mid-2014, it was focused on surveillance operations and the tracking of individuals. The APT group targets telecommunication and travel industries in the Middle East to gather intelligence on Iran’s geopolitical interests.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These allegations, which were made via China's official WeChat account , claim that the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit of the NSA conducted cyberattacks in 2009 and maintained continuous surveillance on Huawei's servers. At the forefront of this rivalry stands Huawei, a prominent Chinese telecommunications company.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Of course, the concentration of the traffic through nodes controlled by Moscow could open the door to a massive surveillance. The exercises aimed at testing and ensuring the integrity and the security of Russia’s Internet infrastructure, so-called RuNet. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The most common objective of such attacks is cyberespionage and disruption of major telecommunications companies’ work. The telecommunications sector: Are providers ready for 5G? If they manage to compromise a telecommunications company, they can then also compromise its customers for surveillance or sabotage purposes.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

NCA infiltrates the cybercriminal underground with fake DDoS-for-hire sites Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 awarded $1,035,000 and a Tesla for 27 0-days CISA announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications initiative China-linked hackers target telecommunication providers in the Middle East City of Toronto is one of the victims hacked by Clop gang using GoAnywhere (..)

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SecureWorld News

MAY 27, 2020

Telecommunications metadata 2. The US Senate voted to renew the USA Freedom Act which authorizes a variety of forms of national surveillance. However, even so there is still far too much data about user browsing behavior being collected and stored by a variety of parties.". What are the contents of this "very detailed data?"

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

. “On January 29, based on the requirements of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation, Roskomnadzor will restrict access to the mail service Protonmail.com (Switzerland),” reads a p ress release p ublished by Roskomnadzor, the Russia’s telecommunications watchdog.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

“This activity was typically only within reach of intelligence agencies or surveillance contractors, but now Motherboard has confirmed that this capability is much more widely available in the hands of financially-driven cybercriminal groups, who are using it to empty bank accounts. ” said the Bank spokesman.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

BioID will further benefit companies like banks, telecommunications, and e-commerce that use facial recognition technology and biometrics to execute Know Your Client (KYC) programs. It focuses on emotion, behavior, age, voice, and gender recognition to provide surveillance and security solutions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

A barrage of news about data breaches, government surveillance, and corporate misconduct has soured consumer sentiment on current data practices privacy regulators and authorities strive to protect consumer rights and shape the future of data protection. Believe it or not, the fifth generation of wireless technology is already here.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 1, 2021

The Cisco Corona service is similarly tasked with providing surveillance of software, to view its components more clearly and to provide a platform to perform a holistic analysis of the software and associated risks. Corona was named after the CORONA Program of American reconnaissance and discovery satellites launched between 1959-1972.

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Notice Bored

APRIL 20, 2022

Professional services are information-centric: information is the work product , the purpose, the key deliverable. Through assignments, jobs, projects or tasks, professional services clients and providers exchange, generate and utilize information.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country. ” states the p ress release p ublished by the Russian watchdog.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Telecommunications firms like to talk up all the great things that so-called 5G cellular networks will bring to smart phones. Telecommunications firms like to talk up all the great things that so-called 5G cellular networks will bring to smart phones. But what new kinds of Internet of Things use cases may become possible?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As a protest against the Indian government’s recent push on net neutrality and Digital India, AnonOpsIndia, a hacktivist group, compromised BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) Telecommunications’ websites on Friday. This latest WikiLeaks disclosure was followed by the website’s recent releases about the surveillance of U.S.

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