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Drug cartel hacked cameras and phones to spy on FBI and identify witnesses

Malwarebytes

And seven years on, the Bureau’s defenses against this kind of surveillance are still inadequate. It identifies a threat that it calls ubiquitous technical surveillance (UTS), in which an attacker combines different kinds of data to build up a detailed profile of a subject. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019.

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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. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016. ” reads the report published by the researchers.

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How Real Is the Threat of Adversarial AI to Cybersecurity?

SecureWorld News

Together, these techniques show how attackers can compromise AI/ML systems from within, making adversarial AI a unique and serious cybersecurity challenge. Data poisoning- Microsoft Tay In 2016, Microsoft launched Tay, a Twitter chatbot meant to learn from users. How real is the threat of adversarial AI?

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3 Percent ($30B) of U.S. Military Funding Dedicated to Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

military fiscal year 2025 dedicates approximately $30 billion to cybersecurity , marking it as a crucial focus in the broader $895.2 Richard Staynings , Chief Security Strategist for IoT security company Cylera and teaching professor for cybersecurity at the University of Denver, provides comments throughout. billion military budget.

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UK's Secret iCloud Backdoor Order Raises Global Security Concerns

SecureWorld News

A secret order issued by the United Kingdom's government is sparking global alarm among privacy advocates and cybersecurity experts. s efforts to expand government surveillance powers could also threaten encrypted services like FaceTime and iMessage. Follow SecureWorld News for more stories related to cybersecurity.

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RedTorch Formed from Ashes of Norse Corp.

Krebs on Security

Norse imploded rather suddenly in 2016 following a series of managerial missteps and funding debacles. 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.

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The NSA is Refusing to Disclose its Policy on Backdooring Commercial Products

Schneier on Security

. “At NSA, it’s common practice to constantly assess processes to identify and determine best practices,” said Anne Neuberger, who heads NSA’s year-old Cybersecurity Directorate. And if it’s still putting surveillance ahead of security. “We don’t share specific processes and procedures.”

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