Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

to replace Chinese equipment Hackers breached a server of National Games of China days before the event Russian Gamaredon APT is targeting Ukraine since October Israeli surveillance firm QuaDream emerges from the dark Argo CD flaw could allow stealing sensitive data from Kubernetes Apps. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

The man was arrested by the FBI in October 2016 , the US DoJ charged Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material. According to a court complaint , the stolen data include source codes developed by the NSA to its hacking campaigns against foreign governments. A first message sent on Aug.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories – a Paris-based nonprofit media group that works with journalists – said earlier this week that users of the Israeli-developed spyware were able to hack into iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 devices, as well as Android devices, of tens of thousands of people – including a number of world leaders.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

STC) has been sanctioned for interfering with the 2016 U.S. Monokle has been used in highly targeted attacks at least since March 2016, it supports a wide range of spying functionalities and implements advanced data exfiltration techniques. SecurityAffairs – spyware, surveillance). ” Special Technology Centre Ltd. (

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

The man was arrested by the FBI in August 2016 , the US DoJ charged Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material. According to a court complaint , the stolen data include source codes developed by the NSA to its hacking campaigns against foreign governments. A first message sent on Aug.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The exposed data dates back from 2016 and earlier, most of the information belongs to customers from B.C. ” A ll LifeLabs users that share the same password for their LifeLabs account at other sites are recommended to change it. and Ontario. LifeLabs has also reported the incident privacy commissioners and government partners.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2021

At the extreme end, the same goes for vigilante style takedown tactics / breaking into servers / deleting data or “hacking back” It might feel good to wipe large quantities of illegal content from a server you’ve taken control of which belongs to very bad people. This is done to slow down phishers by making their data worthless.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

The researchers speculate on a possible connection to Domestic Kitten espionage activities, an extensive surveillance operation conducted by Iranian APT actor aimed at specific groups of individuals since 2016. SecurityAffairs – Bouncing Golf , hacking). Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Pegasus is the creation of the NSO Group , an Israeli firm that licenses it to governments to perform surveillance. Media outlets first reported the existence of the spyware in 2016. While ransomware and APT groups may conduct surveillance on their targets before launching an attack, they are seldom concerned with individuals.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2024

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. As expected, Ukraine topped the list, accounting for 40% of the activity.” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Russia)

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Malwarebytes

JULY 22, 2021

And between 2016 and 2018, more than 1,000 IP addresses were found to be associated with it. It enables abuses like the mobile phone hack of Hatice Cengiz , former fiancée of murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khoshoggi. Antivirus vendors detect it. Digital forensics labs know how to catch it.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

Is hacking a crime? Bryan McAninch (Aph3x) talks about his organization, Hacking Is Not A Crime , and the ethical line it draws on various hacking activities. I used to hack the phone company quite a bit. The 33 year old from suffer faced charges from US prosecutors as hacking into computers at various American agencies.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

At its peak in September 2016, Mirai temporarily crippled several high-profile services such as. 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. August 2016.

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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. The stolen cookies can be used later to remotely access victims’ email accounts. 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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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. 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

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

The problem: The FBI warns that during the dismantling of the Moobot botnet, agents detected code from other Russian attackers, including the notorious Fancy Bear (AKA: APT28 or Military Unit 26165) also responsible for the attack on the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) before the 2016 election. and a medium (CVSS 4.3)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Threat actors had access to the email accounts of at least four NRCC aides and spied on thousands of sent and received emails for several months. The email system at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the Republican Party’s campaigning arm, was hacked. ” states the report published by Politico.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2024

Finally, Congress appears to be heeding lessons available to be learned since the hacking John Podesta’s email account – not to mention all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections, attempting to interfere in 39 states. There’s no change there.”

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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. A similar incident happened in Kiev for about one hour on December 16, 2016.

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