SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2023

A common example of this is surveillance. We normalize the use of surveilling and tracking young people through "parentware" or spyware (software which allows someone to see what someone else is doing on their device) and apps which enable the tracking of someone's location. Earlier, I discussed the normalization of surveillance.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 5, 2021

And the FBI says attacks like these are increasingly linked to stolen usernames and passwords. Perpetrators are increasingly using victims' smart home devices, such as home video cameras and audio surveillance technology. Users should update their passwords on a regular basis. They have all been victims of a swatting attack.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. That changed on Jan.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In total, 53,870 of our mobile users were affected globally by stalkerware in 2020. The software, known as stalkerware, is commercially available to everyone with access to the internet. To calculate our statistics, we review the consumer line of Kaspersky’s mobile security solutions. All received data is anonymized.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. And watchdog groups say its products are often found to be used in surveillance abuses.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Among other malicious features, LuminosityLink allowed Grubbs’ customers to record the keys that victims pressed on their keyboards, surveil victims using their computers’ cameras and microphones, view and download the computers’ files, and steal names and passwords used to access websites.”

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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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SecureList

MARCH 8, 2023

Stalkerware can be downloaded and easily installed by anyone with an Internet connection and physical access to a smartphone. To calculate the statistics, the consumer line of Kaspersky’s mobile security solutions has been reviewed according to the Coalition Against Stalkerware’s detection criteria on stalkerware.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Mobile statistics. The vulnerability is in MSHTML, the Internet Explorer engine. We started detecting some suspicious backdoored installer packages (including TeamViewer, VLC Media Player and WinRAR); then in the middle of 2019 we found a host that served these installers along with FinSpy Mobile implants for Android.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2023

Introduction In today’s interconnected world, more and more devices are being connected to the internet, including everyday household items like pet feeders that are becoming smart by virtue of this simple fact. Typically, pet feeders are controlled by a mobile application that allows you to set, update and manage them.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

that has been tracking down individuals engaged in unauthorized “SIM swaps” — a complex form of mobile phone fraud that is often used to steal large amounts of cryptocurrencies and other items of value from victims. In early July 2018, Ferri was traveling in Europe when he discovered his T-Mobile phone no longer had service.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It's like using a hash of your street address, as the password for your front door. The Internet of Things presents us with both convenience and inconvenience at the same time, suddenly everything is smart is hackable again with startups sometimes repeating security mistakes made decades ago in the rush to market toys.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To protect personal information and feel safe while surfing the internet; 2. Here are only seven out of 26 topics: Insider threats Passwords Security of mobile devices Social engineering Viruses Email security Human error To start the course, you need to register and choose the type of account you need.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With nothing more than an employee’s face needed to gain access, accounts can be set up and access levels changed relatively easily, without the hassle or insecurity of improperly saved passwords. Still, as the limitations of passwords are well-documented , FRS technology has a number of promising cybersecurity applications.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

And what if that unease was coming from your mobile device. The Federal Trade Commission in the United States, banned an app called SpyPhone, and its CEO Scott Zuckerman, from operating in the surveillance industry. Vamosi: There's also Pegasus, a type of surveillance software created by NSO in Israeli security company.

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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. It contains a password-protected RAR archive with the password shown in the email body. The RAR file contains a malicious Word document.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Today, malware is a common threat to the devices and data of anyone who uses the Internet. This isn’t quite the same as a legitimate piece of software, such as a mobile game from a reputable developer, coming packed with online ads. Ransomware is one of the most virulent forms of malware on the modern Internet.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

“And Norse’s much-vaunted interactive attack map was indeed some serious eye candy: It purported to track the source and destination of countless Internet attacks in near real-time, and showed what appeared to be multicolored fireballs continuously arcing across the globe.”

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

For example, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for up to two weeks, preventing easy detection of this behaviour in sandboxes. Some of the data could be used directly – for example, contact information, tax documents and medical records (or access to them through saved passwords).

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Mobile devices exposed to wide attacks. Although 2022 did not feature any mobile intrusion story on the scale of the Pegasus scandal, a number of 0-days have still been exploited in the wild by threat actors. But first, let’s examine how they fared with the predictions for 2022. What we predicted in 2022. Drone hacking!

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Accel Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners. Insight Partners. Lightspeed Venture Partners. Redpoint Ventures.

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