Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

Spyware turned out to be the most common malware class hiding in fraudulent COVID-19 emails, with AgentTesla topping the list of phishers’ favorite strains. Spyware: the most likely COVID-19 payload. Most COVID-19-related phishing emails analyzed had different spyware strains embedded as attachments. Source: CERT-GIB.

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Phishing Malware Spyware DDOS 100

Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2019

Attackers hacked support agent to access Microsoft Outlook email accounts. Scranos – A Cross Platform, Rootkit-Enabled Spyware rapidly spreading. RCE flaw in Electronic Arts Origin client exposes gamers to hack. Broadcom WiFi Driver bugs expose devices to hack. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived!

Computers and Electronics 59

Computers and Electronics Spyware Data breaches Advertising 59

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Also read: Best Antivirus Software of 2022. These new attacks affect everything from private citizens and businesses to government systems; healthcare organizations; public services; and food, water, and fuel supply chains. Crimeware and spyware. Cyberattack Statistics. billion malware attacks were identified by the report.

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Backups Ransomware Firewall Malware 145

Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Vulnerability in Medtronic insulin pumps allow hacking devices. Singapore Government will run its third bug bounty program. ViceLeaker Android spyware targets users in the Middle East. Firefox finally addressed the Antivirus software TLS Errors. Is Your Browser Secure? Cyber Defense Magazine – July 2019 has arrived.

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Scams Spyware DNS Advertising 47

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Looking back at past leaks of private companies providing such services, such as in the case of Hacking Team, we learned that many states all over the world were buying these capabilities, whether to complement their in-house technologies or as a stand-alone solution they couldn’t develop. Hack-and-leak is the new black (and bleak).

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Firmware Surveillance Mobile Telecommunications 111

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

This resulted in the deployment of a custom backdoor, named Sunburst, on the networks of more than 18,000 SolarWinds customers, including many large corporations and government bodies, in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident.

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Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 142

SecureList

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

All of them were ordinary people using our free antivirus solution, seemingly unconnected with any organization of interest to a sophisticated attacker of this kind. The attacks, which took place earlier this year, affected industrial plants, design bureaus and research institutes, government agencies, ministries and departments.

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Malware Computers and Electronics Adware Cryptocurrency 105

SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In particular, we detected notifications about compensation allocated by the government to employees of certain companies. The attachments most frequently encountered and blocked by the antivirus in 2021 were Trojans from the Agensla family, which steal login credentials stored in browsers as well as credentials from e-mail and FTP clients.

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Phishing Scams Accountability Banking 68

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc.

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Technology Software Surveillance Media 52