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North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft spotted using new Android spyware KoSpy

Security Affairs

North Korea-linked threat actor ScarCruft (aka APT37 , Reaper, and Group123) is behind a previously undetected Android surveillance tool namedKoSpythat was used to target Korean and English-speaking users. Cyber attacks conducted by the APT37 group mainly targeted government, defense, military,and media organizations in South Korea.

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RedTorch Formed from Ashes of Norse Corp.

Krebs on Security

Flushed with venture capital funding in 2012, Norse’s founders started hiring dozens of talented cybersecurity professionals. An ad for RedTorch’s “Cheetah” counter-surveillance tech. By 2014 it was throwing lavish parties at top Internet security conferences.

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Faulty DoD Cybersecurity Leaves U.S. At Risk of Missile Attacks

Adam Levin

The report makes several recommendations to mitigate the systemic vulnerabilities, most of them widely recognized best cybersecurity practices including multi-factor authentication, increased video surveillance at facilities, securing server racks and placing tighter controls on removable media such as USB keys.

Risk 199
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LLMs and Phishing

Schneier on Security

In 2012, researcher Cormac Herley offered an answer : It weeded out all but the most gullible. This is due not only to AI advances, but to the business model of the internet—surveillance capitalism—which produces troves of data about all of us, available for purchase from data brokers.

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Russian spies are attempting to tap transatlantic undersea cables

Security Affairs

This week, several media reported that agents of the Russian intelligence reportedly went to Ireland to inspect the undersea cables. Despite the Cable & Wireless bought by Vodafone in July 2012, the Nigella surveillance access point remained active as of April 2013.

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Russian watchdog fines Twitter, Facebook for not moving user data to local servers

Security Affairs

According to the media, these are the largest penalties imposed by the Kremlin on Western IT firms under internet use laws since 2012. On Thursday, a court in Moscow fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles (roughly $63,000) each for refusing to store the personal data of Russian citizens on servers that are located in Russia.

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AI and Trust

Schneier on Security

I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. We are both under constant surveillance and are competing for star rankings. They have social media accounts with personalities. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. And the incentives of surveillance capitalism are just too much to resist.