Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

Facebook fixed a critical zero-day flaw in WhatsApp that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device. Facebook has recently patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Researchers at Lookout discovered a new mobile spyware dubbed Monokle that was developed by a Russian defense contractor. Experts at Lookout discovered a new Android mobile spyware in the wild, dubbed Monokle, that was developed by a Russian defense contractor named Special Technology Centre Ltd. ( Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2020

Google wants to halt the use of ads for technology that could allow monitoring a person’s online activity (i.e. “In August 2020, the Google Ads Enabling Dishonest Behavior policy will be updated to clarify restrictions on advertising for spyware and surveillance technology.”reads Pierluigi Paganini.

Surveillance 141

Surveillance Spyware Advertising Marketing 141

SecureWorld News

JULY 18, 2022

The controversial Pegasus spyware continues to stay in the news cycle, as a new report from the Citizen Lab details how the technology was used to target pro-democracy activists in Thailand. The increase in surveillance also means the use of Pegasus spyware. Pegasus spyware in Thailand.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

On Monday the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced it had charged Revesz with operating an international malware distribution scheme under the company name “Orcus Technologies.” In 2014, the U.S. government said was used to infect more than a half million computers worldwide.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2019

NSO Group ‘s surveillance spyware made the headlines again, this time the malware was used to spy on 2 rights activists in Morocco according Amnesty International. Amnesty International collected evidence of new abuses of the NSO Group ‘s surveillance spyware, this time the malware was used to spy two rights activists in Morocco.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online. The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, the pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online only protected by a password.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In May, Facebook has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device. Today @WhatsApp is taking a stand against the dangerous use of spyware. This abuse must be stopped. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance firm NSO and fears its staff may be targeted by the company with its Pegasus spyware. In July, Citizen Lab collected evidence of attacks against 175 targets worldwide carried on with the NSO spyware.

Surveillance 106

Surveillance Spyware Software Government 106

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In July, Citizen Lab collected evidence of attacks against 175 targets worldwide carried on with the NSO spyware. YEAR(S) IN WHICH SPYWARE INFECTION WAS ATTEMPTED. In August, an Amnesty International report confirmed that its experts identified a second human rights activist, in Saudi Arabia, who was targeted with the powerful spyware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Every third email, meanwhile, contained spyware , which is used by threat actors to steal payment data or other sensitive info to then put it on sale in the darknet or blackmail its owner. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. About Group-IB. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

“[NSO Group] told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual’s data from the servers of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, according to people familiar with its sales pitch” reported the FT. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Surveillance 108

Surveillance Media Spyware Advertising 108

Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

A threat actor tracked as Evilnum targeted financial technology companies, mainly the British and European ones, ESET researchers reported. The group aimed at harvesting financial information from financial technology companies, such as trading platforms. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

eCommerce 135

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. authorities sanction six Nigerian nationals for BEC and Romance Fraud. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

DDOS 104

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2020

Downloading them infected a user’s system with a type of trojan spyware not previously seen in other utilities industry cyberattacks. It then used that access to wreak havoc on the enterprise’s operational technology infrastructure. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Energy and Utilities 124

Energy and Utilities Phishing Advertising Spyware 124

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

“The main Simjacker attack involves an SMS containing a specific type of spyware-like code being sent to a mobile phone, which then instructs the SIM Card within the phone to ‘take over’ the mobile phone to retrieve and perform sensitive commands.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Assembly would set up a committee of international experts in 2020 that will be tasked with elaborating “a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

. “In June 2018, an Amnesty International staff member received a malicious WhatsApp message with Saudi Arabia-related bait content and carrying links Amnesty International believes are used to distribute and deploy sophisticated mobile spyware. Year(s) in which spyware infection was attempted. Country Nexus. Pierluigi Paganini.

Surveillance 67

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

City Council of Somerville bans facial recognition technology. ViceLeaker Android spyware targets users in the Middle East. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Is Your Browser Secure? Pierluigi Paganini.

Scams 71

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

With the advent of IoT technologies, big data and machine learning, attack tools become more advanced and encompass several information systems and resources. According to Group-IB experts, cybercriminals might have used special spyware to steal user credentials — formgrabbers, keyloggers, such as Pony Formgrabber and AZORult.

Government 97

Government Artificial Intelligence Banking Advertising 97

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. Security Affairs – Newsletter ). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 178 – News of the week appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

H2 2019 has proved the tendency of past several years: mail remains the main method of delivering ransomware, spyware, backdoors and other malware, being used by cyber crooks in 94 percent of cases. They, in turn, let spyware and backdoors move ahead and become the second most popular malware with a 35-percent share.

Phishing 87

Phishing Spyware Banking Malware 87

SecureList

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In November, Apple announced that it was taking legal action against NSO Group for developing software that targets its users with “malicious malware and spyware” Detecting infection traces from Pegasus and other advanced mobile malware is very tricky, and complicated by the security features of modern OSs such as iOS and Android.

Malware 138

Malware Mobile Spyware Surveillance 138

SecureList

JUNE 7, 2021

Gootkit is complex multi-stage banking malware that was discovered for the first time by Doctor Web in 2014. The main body is a modular framework, containing registration, spyware, VMX detection and other modules. 0x8002700 (PCS System Technology GmbH), 0xC2900 VMWare, Inc.), 0xF01FAF00 (Dell Inc.), 0x505600 (VMWare, Inc.),

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Users’ logins and passwords from the Government Technology Agency ( [link] [.] Cybercriminals steal user accounts’ data using special spyware aimed at obtaining users’ authentication data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. gov.sg/ ), Ministry of Education ( [link] [.]

Banking 108

Banking Government Passwords Marketing 108

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

For example, a 2014 article for Forbes laid out the benefits semi-truck companies can have when implementing employee monitoring systems, specifically a potential reduction in the frequency and severity of crashes. This is a common selling point of the technology, but is there evidence backing up these claims?

Computers and Electronics 126

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

During routine monitoring of detections for FinFisher spyware tools, we discovered traces that point to recent FinFly Web deployments. It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident. FinFly Web is, in essence, a suite of tools and packages that implement a web-based exploitation server.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

1903 — Wireless Telegraphy — During John Ambrose Fleming’s first public demonstration of Marconi’s “secure” wireless telegraphy technology, Nevil Maskelyne disrupts it by sending insulting Morse code messages discrediting the invention. Dateline Cybercrime . A federal grand jury indicts Albert Gonzalez and two Russian accomplices in 2009.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

This actor was first spotted by PaloAlto’s UNIT42 in 2018 during wide scale operations against technology, retail, manufacturing, and local government industries in the US, Europe and Asia. As a last payload, Agent Tesla was used which collects all the functionality of the previous payloads as it is considered an info stealer and spyware.

Manufacturing 144

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage Networks, Systems, and Information Technology infrastructure and security. For more information on this breach see: Symrise Cyber Attack. 14 th December SolarWinds ( www.solarwinds.com ). SolarWinds Inc. 4securitas.com ).

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SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

WinDealer’s man-on-the-side spyware. However, when the vulnerability is used in a New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) relay attack, the combined CVSSv3 score for the attack-chain is 9.8. When it was first discovered in 2014, its main purpose was stealing banking credentials. Emotet’s return.

Mobile 98

Mobile Ransomware Malware Encryption 98

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Threat actors can develop fake mobile apps to install adware, steal PII and financial data, extract cookies and credentials, and download further payloads (such as spyware) from a remote-controlled domain. As you can see in the example below, in 2014 some threat actors preferred internet relay chats (IRCs) to organize DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A new report published by Citizen Lab revealed that the NSO Pegasus spyware was used against targets across 45 countries worldwide. A new investigation of the Citizen Lab revealed that the powerful Pegasus mobile spyware was used against targets across 45 countries around the world over the last two years. COUNTRY NEXUS.

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Spyware Mobile Surveillance DNS 108

Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

As first detailed by KrebsOnSecurity in July 2016 , Orcus is the brainchild of John “Armada” Rezvesz , a Toronto resident who until recently maintained and sold the RAT under the company name Orcus Technologies. In 2014, the U.S. In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar.

Advertising 274

Advertising Malware Marketing Software 274

Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

It is allowed to host: ordinary sites, doorway pages, satellites, codecs, adware, tds, warez, pharma, spyware, exploits, zeus, IRC, etc. Here’s a snippet from one of Yalishanda’s advertisements to a cybercrime forum in 2011, when he was running a bulletproof service under the domain real-hosting[.]biz:

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Cybercrime Phishing Banking Malware 244

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Kaspersky has been tracking deployments of this spyware since 2011. While the MBR infection has been known since at least 2014, details on the UEFI bootkit are publicly revealed in this article for the first time. FinSpy, also known as FinFisher or Wingbird , is an infamous surveillance toolset.

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