Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

Researchers at Amnesty International collected evidence that a Moroccan journalist was targeted with network injection attacks using NSO Group ‘s spyware. reads the analysis published by Amnesty International in October. ” reads the report published by Amnesty International.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2023

Throughout the day we will have a chance to meet dozens of more than 350 strategic buyers and […] The post Seceon to Participate In AGC Partners’ 2017 Boston Technology Growth Conference appeared first on Seceon. The post Seceon to Participate In AGC Partners’ 2017 Boston Technology Growth Conference appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 31, 2023

Throughout the day we will have a chance to meet dozens of more than 350 strategic buyers and […] The post Seceon to Participate In AGC Partners’ 2017 Boston Technology Growth Conference appeared first on Seceon. The post Seceon to Participate In AGC Partners’ 2017 Boston Technology Growth Conference appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A threat actor associated with cyberespionage operations since at least 2017 has been luring victims with fake VPN software for Android that is a trojanized version of legitimate software SoftVPN and OpenVPN. [.].

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Threat actors are exploiting an old Microsoft Office vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-11882, to spread the Agent Tesla malware. Threat actors are exploiting an old Microsoft Office vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-11882 (CVSS score: 7.8), as part of phishing campaigns to spread the Agent Tesla malware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

The Earth Empusa threat group is distributing new Android spyware, dubbed ActionSpy, through watering hole attacks to targets Turkic minority group. ActionSpy, which may have been around since 2017, is an Android spyware that allows the attacker to collect information from the compromised devices,” reads the report published by Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

FormBook is a data-stealing malware that is used in cyber espionage campaigns, like other spyware it is capable of extracting data from HTTP sessions, keystroke logging, stealing clipboard contents. The malware was pulled from sale in 2017, but it continued to infect systems across the world. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Threatpost

MARCH 20, 2019

Until a report this week, Uber's Surfcam's use was thought to be limited to incidents uncovered in Singapore in 2017. For its part, Uber denies that it's a "spyware.".

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2020

Security experts discovered a highly sophisticated Android spyware platform, dubbed Mandrake, that remained undetected for four years. Researchers from Bitdefender discovered a high-sophisticated Android spyware platform dubbed Mandrake, it was involved in highly targeted attacks against specific devices. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“According to the indictment, between 2011 and July 2017, Aliaksandr Klimenka, 42, allegedly controlled BTC-e, a digital currency exchange, with Alexander Vinnik and others.” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, commercial spyware )

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 22, 2018

The activities continue: the most recently observed domain was registered on October 31, 2017. Moreover, as we dived deeper into the investigation, we discovered several spyware tools for Windows that form an implant for exfiltrating sensitive data on a targeted machine. BoingBoing post.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2019

The popular malware researcher Lukas Stefanko from ESET discovered that a malicious spyware, built on the AhMyth open-source espionage tool, was uploaded on Google Play twice over two weeks, bypassing Google security checks. ” The source code of the RAT is available on GitHub since October 2017. . ” wrote Stafanko.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The experts were investigating several suspicious UEFI firmware images when discovered four components, some of which were borrowing the source code a Hacking Team spyware. Kaspersky researchers revealed to have found MosaicRegressor components at several dozen entities between 2017 and 2019.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2019

Security researchers have found a new government spyware, tracked as Exodus, that was distributed through the Google Play Store. The researchers argue that the surveillance operation might have targeted also innocent victims because the spyware was poorly developed, a circumstance that is confirmed makes the software illegal.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

of all Mac detections in 2020—the rest can be attributed to Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) and Adware ThiefQuest tricked many researchers into believing it was the first example of ransomware on macOS since 2017, but the malware was hiding its real activity of massive data exfiltration. New adversaries crawled out of the woodwork, too.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

A new shocking revelation comes from the disputed from NSO Group and Facebook, NSO CEO claims Facebook tried to buy an Apple spying software in 2017. “According to a declaration from NSO CEO Shalev Hulio , two Facebook representatives approached NSO in October 2017 and asked to purchase the right to use certain capabilities of Pegasus.”

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Hot for Security

JUNE 18, 2021

According to a joint CISA and FBI advisory , CVE-2017-11882 was among the most exploited software vulnerabilities between 2016 and 2019. So it seems that bad actors are still hunting for outdated and unpatched software that can easily be compromised.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

The attackers used an exploit chain named Kismet that was part of the arsenal of the controversial Pegasus spyware that is sold by the surveillance firm NSO Group. In June 2017, the Qatari news channel announced that all its systems were under a large-scale cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Researchers spotted new variants of the Windows GravityRAT spyware that now can also infect Android and macOS devices. ” reads an analysis published by Cisco Talos that spotted the malware back in 2017 when it was used by an APT group targeting India.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

The final payload is the FormBook information-stealing Trojan, a malware that was first spotted by researchers at FireEye in October 2017. FormBook data-stealing malware was used with cyber espionage purposes, like other spyware it is capable of extracting data from HTTP sessions, keystroke logging, stealing clipboard contents.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

In the latest campaign uncovered by Kaspersky, the APT group, used a modular framework dubbed CloudWizard that supports spyware capabilities, including taking screenshots, microphone recording, harvesting Gmail inboxes, and keylogging. Since 2017, there have been no traces of Groundbait and BugDrop operations.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 18, 2021

According to a joint CISA and FBI advisory , CVE-2017-11882 was among the most exploited software vulnerabilities between 2016 and 2019. So it seems that bad actors are still hunting for outdated and unpatched software that can easily be compromised.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The PhantomLance malware implements classic spyware functionalities, it could exfiltrate user data, phone call logs, SMS messages, contacts, and GPS data. Android version, installed apps). . The malicious code is also able to deploy additional malicious payloads. . . Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Since at least 2017, the prolific gang compromised at least 500,000 government and private sector companies in more than 150 countries. The investigation continues as some of the gang members remain at large. 4 The example of the compromised data from the cybercriminals’ logs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

WSJ says Equifax to Pay $700 million settlement for 2017 breach. Android Spyware Monokle, developed by Russian defense contractor, used in targeted attacks. Kazakhstan wants to intercept all HTTPS Internet traffic of its citizens. New APT34 campaign uses LinkedIn to deliver fresh malware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

The group was first spotted by ESET in 2018, when the experts detected a sophisticated piece of spyware, tracked as InvisiMole, used in targeted attacks in Russia and Ukraine in the previous five years. The attack chain begins with the deployment of a TCP downloader that fetches the next stage payload.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

2017 analysis of the RAT. However, these tools tend to be viewed by prosecutors as malware and spyware when their proprietors advertise them as hacking devices and provide customer support aimed at helping buyers deploy the RATs stealthily and evade detection by anti-malware programs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, the details of 1.8 According to Group-IB experts, cybercriminals might have used special spyware to steal user credentials — formgrabbers, keyloggers, such as Pony Formgrabber and AZORult. Map of Middle-Eastern Countries.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2018

Security researchers from CSE Cybsec Z-Lab analyzed the content of the folder and discovered an Android spyware that was developed to exfiltrate sensitive information from victims’ devices. The homepage shows how the application works and includes some slides about it.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

You may be most familiar with computer malware such as Trojan viruses and spyware, which can be used to retrieve sensitive data from a computer or even take control of the system. You’ve likely read about high-profile cyberattacks in the headlines after a major data breach, such as the Equifax breach in 2017. Ransomware. Malvertising.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Worldwide spending on information security products and services rose to $114 billion in 2018, up from $102 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.4 Apps from other sources can carry malware or spyware. To be sure, it’s not as if the good guys aren’t also innovating. percent, according to tech consultancy Gartner.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

In 2017, for instance, SMBs were under tremendous pressure to defend their networks against rapidly morphing ransomware attacks. In 2018, attackers shifted their focus to refining and deploying banking trojans, which essentially act as spyware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

An Australian national has been charged for the creation and sale of the Imminent Monitor (IM) spyware, which was also used for criminal purposes. The 24-year-old Australian national Jacob Wayne John Keen has been charged for his alleged role in the development and sale of spyware known as Imminent Monitor (IM). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Group-IB Threat Intelligence team identified hundreds of compromised credentials from Singaporean government agencies and educational institutions over the course of 2017 and 2018. Cybercriminals steal user accounts’ data using special spyware aimed at obtaining users’ authentication data. Have you been pwned?

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The Hacker News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Meta Platforms disclosed that it took down no less than 200 covert influence operations since 2017 spanning roughly 70 countries across 42 languages. The social media conglomerate also took steps to disable accounts and block infrastructure operated by spyware vendors, including in China, Russia, Israel, the U.S.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2021

Percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked, by half-year, 2017 – 2020 ( download ). There was a rise in the percentage of ICS computers on which threats distributed over the internet and email, and spyware and miners were blocked. Spyware (+1.4 percentage points (p.p.)

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