The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A new wave of a mobile surveillance campaign has been observed targeting the Uyghur community as part of a long-standing spyware operation active since at least 2015, cybersecurity researchers disclosed Thursday.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Pretty soon, the police officers in Greece will soon have access to body worn surveillance cameras that will be used for real-time facial recognition and fingerprint scanners. Thus, by doing so, the law enforcement is planning to keep a watch on the citizens when stopped by the police for verification- all as a part of ‘Smart Policing’.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. Many have written about how being under constant surveillance changes a person. This was in 2016, when Poitras built a secure room in New York to house the documents. And Edward Snowden?

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Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2023

Hacktivist maia arson crimew told TechCrunch she'd found 60,000 compromised Android devices, dating back to 2016. The data showed that between 2016 and the server takeover, around 60k devices had been compromised. And it's not a small number. If you are thinking about installing such an app, and you are reading this: Don’t!

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 12, 2019

The first concern was over high numbers: in both 2016 and 2017, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued 40 orders for collection, but the NSA collected hundreds of millions of CDRs, and the agency provided little clarification for the high numbers. For a time, the new program seemed to be functioning well.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

Pegasus Project investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware. Pegasus Project is the name of a large-scale investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets that revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2018

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented. We never lie to our search engines.

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Threatpost

JULY 24, 2019

Researchers have linked the surveillance tool to a Russian tech firm that has been sanctioned for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 26, 2021

Edward Snowden who previously whistle blew on the surveillance program taken up by the US National Security Agency has revealed some startling facts about the Boris Johnson-led government recently.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

TBK Vision is a video surveillance company that provides network CCTV devices and other related equipment, including DVRs for the protection of critical infrastructure facilities. “Another notable spike to mention is IPS detections related to MVPower CCTV DVR models (CVE-2016-20016) also known as JAWS webserver RCE.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2022

NOTE 1- China is already been under the surveillance of its citizens since 2016 and for the past 2 years it is constantly using AI and Facial recognition systems to keep a track of Uighurs and other ethnic minority groups. As a lot of research has to be done, to confirm the events and conclusion.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Often overlooked, the SIM card —short for Subscriber Identification Module—acts as the nexus between our identity and technology, illuminating the thin line between connection and surveillance. Recent revelations, such as the TechCrunch exposé on “ Spyhide stalkerware ,” unmask the vulnerability of our devices.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The trio has worked as hackers-for-hire for the United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company DarkMatter between January 2016 and November 2019. Three former NSA employees (Marc Baier, 49, Ryan Adams, 34, and Daniel Gericke, 40) entered into a deferred prosecution agreement that restricts their future activities and employment. organizations.”

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Back in 2016, the group’s investigations helped spur MacOS updates to fix severe vulnerabilities that could have been exploited by Pegasus. In 2018, Citizen Lab also identified 45 countries that were potentially relying on Pegasus to conduct surveillance. ” Pegasus is not new. It is, he said, everywhere.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

Here are a few unexpected examples of supposedly anonymous data reversal: •In 2016, the Australian government released what they called the “anonymous” (i. Despite warnings from cybersecurity academics, whistleblowers or former NSA and CIA agents, the general public shows no animosity toward metadata surveillance.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Cybersecurity firm states it has already started protecting its government and enterprise customers from the evil intentions of those spreading Pegasus espionage software tool and this has been going on since 2016 or when the said malware was first detected.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Tech advances are accelerating the use of facial recognition as a reliable and ubiquitous mass surveillance tool, privacy advocates warn. According to Allied Market Research, the facial recognition systems market is in the midst of rising at a compounded annual growth rate of 21% between 2016 to 2022. billion by 2022. Pieces in place.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The trio has worked as hackers-for-hire for the United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company DarkMatter between January 2016 and November 2019. The surveillance it represents is completely antithetical to our mission.” export control, computer fraud and access device fraud laws. ” reads the response. and its ally, the U.A.E.,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 17, 2023

Therefore, the next time when you see your webcam light blinking and device battery exhausting faster than usual, you must quickly put the device under surveillance. Let us analyze it with an example: In the year 2016, a couple living in a condo in New York received a call. What happens if the webcam is in control of a hacker?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2019

According to Motherboard, the Android surveillance malware on the Google Play store that was sold to the Italian government by a company that sells surveillance cameras. This company is not known to produce malware, and if confirmed this is the first surveillance software associated with it.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2022

CVE-2016-5674 targets NUUO NVRmini2, NVRsolo, Crystal Devices, and NETGEAR ReadyNAS Surveillance products. The Beastmode botnet also includes exploits for the following issues: CVE-2021-45382 targets D-Link products (DIR-810L, DIR-820L/LW, DIR-826L, DIR-830L and DIR-836L) CVE-2021-4045 targets TP-Link Tapo C200 IP camera.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Its business activities include the provision of services for hard disk recorders, video codes, video servers, surveillance cameras, monitoring of ball machine, road mounts and other products, as well as security services. According to the researcher, the vulnerability has existed at least since 2016. The critical bug has received 9.8

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 31, 2021

However, unless it is done under strict surveillance, none of the benefits could reach the populace. . However, the procedure was abandoned in 2016 due to privacy concerns.

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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

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. 13, 2016, asked one of the researchers to arrange a conversation with Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky. The case unfolded after someone who U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

As first reported in The Guardian , a large data leak unveiled a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers of people that were in the crosshairs of NSO customers dating back to 2016, including more than 180 journalists worldwide. Thousands of iPhones have potentially been compromised. … This is a global concern. Spyware is Evolving.

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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. US seizes $3.6 US seizes $3.6 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2021

Norse imploded rather suddenly in 2016 following a series of managerial missteps and funding debacles. Remember Norse Corp., the company behind the interactive "pew-pew" cyber attack map shown in the image blow?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A new version of the Android malware "FurBall" has been discovered to be used by the threat actor(s) known as Domestic Kitten in a campaign targeting Iranian citizens in a mobile surveillance operation.

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McAfee

JULY 17, 2020

Chamber of Commerce created in 2016 that allows businesses in the European Union to transfer data to the U.S. The Safe Harbor scheme was replaced by the EU-US Privacy Shield on July 12, 2016, in response to the case. surveillance, and, therefore, do not have a right to an effective remedy in the U.S., The Court said that.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 10, 2018

It's based in part on her 2016 Congressional testimony in the Apple/FBI case; it examines how the Digital Revolution has transformed society, and how law enforcement needs to -- and can -- adjust to the new realities. Susan Landau has written a terrific book on cybersecurity threats and why we need strong crypto.

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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. 13, 2016, asked one of the researchers to arrange a conversation with Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky. reported the Politico website. “The A first message sent on Aug.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2018

When Marc Zuckerberg testified before both the House and the Senate last month, it became immediately obvious that few US lawmakers had any appetite to regulate the pervasive surveillance taking place on the internet. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was passed in 2016 and took effect on 25 May. But the market is broken.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Neutrino was founded in 2016 by Giancarlo Russo, Marco Valleri, and Alberto Ornaghi. The US company has experienced some controversy due to the acquisition, the heated debate surrounding Neutrino comes from the involvement of Valleri and Ornaghi, who were both executives of surveillance firm Hacking Team.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The Luminosity RAT was first spotted in 2015 but it became very popular in 2016. In September 2016, the UK law enforcement arrested Colton Grubbs, the man admitted to designing, marketing, and selling LuminosityLink. Grubbs offered for sale the malware for $39.99 ” reads the DoJ’s sentence.

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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. LifeLabs notified its customers via letter, exposed data includes names, contact information, health card numbers, and for approximately 85,000 customers their lab test results. and Ontario. ” said Brown.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2016, Verkada is a security company that focuses on surveillance and facial recognition through the use of sophisticated software in security cameras. That hacker says the intent was "to show the pervasiveness of video surveillance and the ease with which systems could be broken into.".

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