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Security Boulevard
JANUARY 20, 2025
Specifically, stories and news items where public and/or private organizations have leveraged their capabilities to encroach on user privacy; for example, data brokers using underhanded means to harvest user location data without user knowledge or public organizations using technology without regard for user privacy.
Security Affairs
MARCH 7, 2025
According to Erlingsson (2014), Google’s RAPPOR system collects user data while maintaining anonymity. Similarly, Abowd(2018) examined its integration with a census data collection framework, ensuring confidentiality. More recent research has focused on applying differential privacy in various domains.
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SecureList
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Introduction Known since 2014, Cloud Atlas targets Eastern Europe and Central Asia. All data collected this way is saved in a TMP alternate data stream and forwarded to the C2 server by the VBShower::Backdoor component. We’re shedding light on a previously undocumented toolset, which the group used heavily in 2024.
Security Affairs
JULY 30, 2020
The Techniques, Tactics, and Procedures (TTPs) of the Operation North Star operations are very similar to those observed in 2017 and 2019 campaigns that targeted key military and defense technologies. “Our analysis indicates that one of the purposes of the activity in 2020 was to install data gathering implants on victims’ machines.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. In September 2014, U.S.
Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2019
” Turla attackers used many other tools and malware in the latest campaigns, such as a custom dropper to deliver the Neptun backdoor, a USB data collecting tool, a hacking tool that combines four NSA tools ( EternalBlue , EternalRomance , DoublePulsar , SMBTouch ). Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Turla, hacking).
Security Affairs
AUGUST 10, 2019
Data collected by the malware include manufacturer and model, OS version, country of residence of the user, the default language of the system, user agent identifier, name of mobile operator, type of internet connection, screen options, time zone, and information about the tainted application containing the Trojan. Pierluigi Paganini.
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