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German authorities raid the offices of the FinFisher surveillance firm

Security Affairs

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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LW ROUNDTABLE: Will the U.S. Senate keep citizens safe, vote to force China to divest TikTok?

The Last Watchdog

In 2011, Russia launched a social media site called iFunny aimed at disaffected young men. based supplier of fraud management technology, documented how iFunny distributed data-stealing malware specifically targeting smartphone users in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. There’s no change there.”

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Iran-linked APT42 is behind over 30 espionage attacks

Security Affairs

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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QNAP data storage devices hit by a massive ransomware campaign

CyberSecurity Insiders

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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Unknown FinSpy Mac and Linux versions found in Egypt

Security Affairs

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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Checkra1n, a working iPhone Jailbreak, was released

Security Affairs

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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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

February 2011: Ross Ulbricht Creates the Silk Road Marketplace “I created Silk Road because I thought the idea for the website itself had value, and that bringing Silk Road into being was the right thing to do. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.