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Stealth Falcon’s undocumented backdoor uses Windows BITS to exfiltrate data

Security Affairs

Stealth Falcon is a nation-state actor active since at least 2012, the group targeted political activists and journalists in the Middle East in past campaigns. In 2016, researchers from non-profit organization CitizenLab published a report that describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried by the Stealth Falcon.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 235

Security Affairs

Amnesty claims that 2 Morocco rights advocates were targeted by NSO Group spyware. Ops, popular iTerm2 macOS Terminal App is affected by a critical RCE since 2012. SAP October 2019 Security Patch Day fixes 2 critical flaws. Sophos fixed a critical vulnerability in Cyberoam firewalls.

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