The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

operating in the surveillance-for-hire industry. The findings are part of its Adversarial Threat Report for the fourth quarter of 2023. Meta Platforms said it took a series of steps to curtail malicious activity from eight different firms based in Italy, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.)

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Meta published a report on the 16th of December, named “Threat Report on the Surveillance-for-Hire Industry”, where it announced that it banned six alleged entities and a Chinese law enforcement supplier that provided services on surveillance-for-hire targeting 50 K people.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

But stealthily surveilling a network is not a tactic exclusive to highly sophisticated threat actors targeting enterprise businesses. The Codecov and SolarWinds are strong, loud proof points to the widespread damage possible if hackers achieve undetected, unfettered access to a company’s systems, networks and partners or customers.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office ArsTechnica RTO continues to pick up steam. In pursuit of "more productivity," some employers are leaning heavily into surveillance tech.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 13, 2025

Natural language processing (NLP): NLP allows AI to analyze and interpret human language, making it useful for scanning security logs, analyzing threat reports, and detecting suspicious activities in emails or messages. It helps identify anomalies and potential third-party risks in real-time.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Researchers analyze industry cybersecurity threat reporting. Researchers from the University of Toronto and the Center for Security Studies in Zurich analyzed hundreds of reports published by the cybersecurity industry. Public and academic knowledge of cyber conflict relies heavily on data from commercial threat reporting.

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Webroot

JULY 8, 2021

Our latest threat report found the average ransomware payment peaked in September 2020 at more than $230 thousand. Were a cybercriminal to compromise a trusted supplier to distribute ransomware, rather than for surveillance as in that attack, the costs could be enormous. But the ransom alone doesn’t tell the whole story.

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