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

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

. “The US government’s continued investigation into the People’s Republic of China (PRC) targeting of commercial telecommunications infrastructure has revealed a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign.” ” reads the joint statement issued by CISA and FBI. The investigation into the breaches of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

. “The US government’s continued investigation into the People’s Republic of China (PRC) targeting of commercial telecommunications infrastructure has revealed a broad and significant cyber espionage campaign.” ” reads the joint statement issued by CISA and FBI. The investigation into the breaches of the U.S.

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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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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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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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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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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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Surveillance Manufacturing Internet Passwords 145

Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2019

The popular privacy-focused email service ProtonMail has been accused of offering voluntarily real-time surveillance assistance to law enforcement. The popular privacy-focused email service ProtonMail made the headlines because it has been accused of supporting real-time surveillance carried out by law enforcement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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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Encryption Telecommunications Risk Government 267

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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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.

Malware 111

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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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Encryption Telecommunications Risk Government 241

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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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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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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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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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

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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Telecommunications Advertising Technology Surveillance 98

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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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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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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Internet Internet Telecommunications Risk 40

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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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

We know that war has impacts on telecommunications, but what we've seen in Ukraine is on a different level.". 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. Advancing Russian troops need it to communicate.

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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

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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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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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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Risk Energy and Utilities Computers and Electronics Telecommunications 72

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

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.

Telecommunications 144

Telecommunications Advertising Government Media 144

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Back to September 2013, Belgacom (now Proximus), the largest telecommunications company in Belgium and primarily state-owned, announced its IT infrastructure had suffered a malware-based attack. Belgian newspaper reported that investigators had found proof that the Belgacom hack was the work of the UK GCHQ intelligence agency.

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Hacking Spyware Telecommunications Malware 104

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group and its parent Q Cyber Technologies. China-linked APT41 group targets telecommunications companies with new backdoor. Thousands of Xiaomi FURRYTAIL pet feeders exposed to hack. Xhelper, a new piece of Android malware that is infecting 2K+ devices each month.

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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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Banking Telecommunications Authentication Advertising 60

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.

Telecommunications 61

Telecommunications VPN Advertising Government 61

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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

” The three activity sets included a campaign against the Philippine government between March and May 2022; a campaign against telecommunications and business service providers in South Asia in April 2022; and a campaign against organizations in Belarus and Russia in May 2022.

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