Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Earlier this month, German authorities have raided the offices of FinFisher, the German surveillance software firm, accused of providing its software to oppressive regimes. Since 2011 it was employed in attacks aimed at Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in many countries, including Bahrain, Ethiopia, UAE, and more. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Experts from Amnesty International uncovered a surveillance campaign that targeted Egyptian civil society organizations with a new version of FinSpy spyware. Since 2011 it was employed in attacks aimed at Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in many countries, including Bahrain, Ethiopia, UAE, and more. .”

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

We also found Cobalt Strike beacons and several traces tying this actor to the ShadowPad malware and UNC2643 activity, which is in turn associated with the HAFNIUM threat actor. In recent years, the malware attracted the attention of the community due to the publication of two articles.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 22, 2021

It is learnt that the massive file encrypting malware campaign started on April 19th,2021 when victims took help of the technology forums to know more about the ransomware. Its data storage appliances are used across the globe for virtualization, storage management, and surveillance applications, along with file sharing.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

The campaigns have been conducted since 2015 and are aimed at conducting information collection and surveillance operations against individuals and organizations of strategic interest to Teheran. ” The surveillance operations conducted by the APT group involved the distribution of Android malware such as VINETHORN and PINEFLOWER.

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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. The investigation revealed that the malware-based attack was powered by GCHQ and code-named Operation Socialist. ” wrote The Intercept.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

The jailbreak works with all Apple products released between 2011 and 2017, including iPhone models from 4S to 8 and X. Axi0mX’s jailbreak code is marked as a “beta” release, but experts warned of the concrete possibility that expert coders or intelligence agencies will integrate it into hacking tools and malware.

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