Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

An employee at Amnesty International has been targeted with Israeli surveillance malware, the news was revealed by the human rights group. Amnesty International revealed that one of its employees was targeted with a surveillance malware developed by an Israeli firm. com , pine-sales[.]com com , and ecommerce-ads[.]org.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Last year, the group published a detailed analysis on how the Chinese government has improved its surveillance system to detect and block the popular circumvention tools Shadowsocks and its variants. SecurityAffairs – hacking, China). ” reads the paper published by the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Recently security the security expert researcher Sam Curry warned of vulnerabilities in mobile apps that exposed Hyundai and Genesis car models after 2012 to remote attacks. ” Privacy advocates are raising the alarm on surveillance activities operated by law enforcement by collecting data from connected systems in modern cars.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The APT32 group has been active since at least 2012, it has targeted organizations across multiple industries and foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. “This unlawful surveillance violates the right to privacy and stifles freedom of expression.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT32). Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

A report published by Sentinel One states that a hacking group named “Modified Elephant” was seen carrying out such criminal activities since 2012 and has started the game of planting criminal evidence on devices of innocent online users.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The hearing comes about two months after FireEye’s revelation that hackers used a malicious software update on the SolarWinds Orion IT management system to hack several government agencies and private firms — including FireEye itself. in 2012 to smooth the process of notifying government. Ranking Republican Marco Rubio, R-Fla.,

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

A week after it landed with a curious (and most likely spurious) thud, Zuckerberg’s announcement about a new tack on consumer privacy still has the feel of an unexpected message from some parallel universe where surveillance (commercial and/or spycraft) isn’t the new normal. This article originally appeared on Inc.com.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The cyber-offense ecosystem still appears to be shaken by the sudden demise of NSO Group; at the same time, these activities indicate to us that we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to commercial-grade mobile surveillance tooling. One glaring example is Iran, which faced a series of spectacular hacks and sabotages.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

According to Stone, the CVE-2019-2215 vulnerability was being used or sold by the controversial surveillance firm NSO Group , it was exploited by its surveillance software Pegasus. SideWinder, a group that has been active since 2012, is a known threat and has reportedly targeted military entities’ Windows machines.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 27, 2021

ForAllSecure began exploring the answer to these questions in 2012 at Carnegie Mellon University when Professor David Brumley and his graduate students, Thanassis Avgerinos and Alex Rebert, created Mayhem for Code (formally Mayhem) as an advanced fuzz testing solution. If development is made to be continuous, why shouldn’t security?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 27, 2021

ForAllSecure began exploring the answer to these questions in 2012 at Carnegie Mellon University when Professor David Brumley and his graduate students, Thanassis Avgerinos and Alex Rebert, created Mayhem for Code (formally Mayhem) as an advanced fuzz testing solution. If development is made to be continuous, why shouldn’t security?

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

What’s remarkable about these record-breaking attacks is they were carried out via small, innocuous Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like home routers, air-quality monitors, and personal surveillance cameras. Covers the Mirai code release and how multiple hacking groups end-up reusing the code. via an infamous hacking forum.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While the newer actors are filling the skills gap quickly, the most advanced parties are scaling to obtain global surveillance capabilities through technological supremacy. When it was first used in 2012, it disabled over 30,000 computers.

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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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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. Reading about the NSA’s hacking abilities will do that to you. Many have written about how being under constant surveillance changes a person. I wrote the essay below in September 2013.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man’s alleged targets were members of UGNazi , a hacker group behind multiple high-profile breaches and cyberattacks back in 2012. ” who said Iza hired him to surveil Zelocchi but ultimately refused to pay him for much of the work. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that T.H.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Pegasus is a surveillance malware developed by the Israeli surveillance NSO Group that could infect both iPhones and Android devices, it is sold exclusively to the governments and law enforcement agencies. Our technique identified a total of 45 countries where Pegasus operators may be conducting surveillance operations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2021

The NSA and the Danish intelligence signed a secret pact that allowed the cyberspies to eavesdrop on sensitive communications between 2012 and 2014. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NSA). .” The spying operation, Operation Dunhammer, was uncovered by a joint investigation conducted by some of Europe’s biggest news agencies.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This strategic shift signals its intent to intensify its surveillance capabilities and expand its range of targets. These are new variants of the same hacking tools that we first reported in August 2019, and later detailed again in June 2021.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

cyber army is targeting the Russian power grid since at least 2012 with reconnaissance operations, but recently it also carried out more offensive operations. “Since at least 2012, current and former officials say, the United States has put reconnaissance probes into the control systems of the Russian electric grid.”

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