Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The China-linked APT27 group has been active since 2010, it targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S. The group was involved in cyber espionage campaigns aimed at new generation weapons and in surveillance activities on dissidents and other civilian groups. .” It is designed to load malicious DLLs and encrypt payloads.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

The APT group has been active since 2010, targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S. The group was involved in cyber espionage campaigns aimed at new generation weapons and in surveillance activities on dissidents and other civilian groups. The hackers used the Windows drive encryption tool BitLocker to lock the servers.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 24, 2022

He was the most prominent member of the high-profile hacker think tank the L0pht, as well as the computer and culture hacking cooperative the Cult of the Dead Cow. The 2020 Twitter hack was one of the main reasons for Twitter to hire Zatko, who previously held senior roles at Google, Stripe, and the US Department of Defense.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 22, 2021

When weaponized by authoritarian governments, surveillance chills free speech, scares away dissent, and robs an innocent public of a life lived unwatched, for no crime committed other than speaking truth to power, conducting public health research, or simply loving another person. They have no shame. They must be brought to justice.”.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sometime before March, hackers working for the Russian SVR — previously known as the KGB — hacked into SolarWinds and slipped a backdoor into an Orion software update. (We Other examples of this sort of attack include fake apps in the Google Play store, and hacked replacement screens for your smartphone. Probably.).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Lajos Kosa, chair of the Parliament’s Defense and Law Enforcement Committee, confirmed that Hungary is one of the clients of the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group and that it bought and used the controversial Pegasus spyware. According to Kosa, the use of surveillance software was authorized by a judge or the Minister of Justice.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2019

Australia, and elsewhere -- argue that the pervasive use of civilian encryption is hampering their ability to solve crimes and that they need the tech companies to make their systems susceptible to government eavesdropping. Levy and Robinson write: In a world of encrypted services, a potential solution could be to go back a few decades.

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