Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2025

A raèresentative from the Russian Government called the incident “alarming.” The hacktivists claimed year-long access to Aeroflot’s network, stealing customer data, internal files, call recordings, surveillance footage, and communications. The attack paralyzed the carrier’s IT systems and the company website was unreachable.

Social Engineering

Daniel Miessler

MARCH 22, 2020

Just yesterday I tweeted that the COVID-19 situation was going to finally make large-scale video surveillance endemic to our society. DanielMiessler) March 21, 2020. Governments and various industries have been trying to do this for a long time, but they’ve been opposed on the grounds of protecting freedom and privacy.

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center published the “ National Cyber Power Index 2020: Methodology and Analytical Considerations.” By considering “all-of-country” we include all aspects under the control of a government where possible.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2021

Initial estimates were that Russia sent its probes only into a few dozen of the 18,000 government and private networks they gained access to when they inserted code into network management software made by a Texas company named SolarWinds. intelligence service revealed these points: The breach is far broader than first believed. 10, 2019.

Hacking

Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

This post includes the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from April 12 to April 18, 2020. PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. Coronavirus-themed attacks April 05 – April 11, 2020. adrotate banner=”9″].

Scams

Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the Italian surveillance firm RCS Labs was helped by some Internet service providers (ISPs) in Italy and Kazakhstan to infect Android and iOS users with their spyware. CVE-2020-9907 internally referred to as AveCesare. Pierluigi Paganini.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The IT giant fears that the disclosures of its threat intelligence related to commercial spyware operations could aid NSO and other surveillance firms. Because of these efforts, along with the efforts of others in the industry and national governments to combat the rise of commercial spyware, Defendants have been substantially weakened.”

Surveillance

Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2020

Slovak police seized wiretapping devices connected to Govnet government network and arrested four individuals, including the head of a government agency. GOVNET is a network that interconnects different Slovak government agencies. the Head of the NASES Surveillance Center Ján K., The news site Aktuality.sk

Government

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

An ad for RedTorch’s “Cheetah” counter-surveillance tech. 2020 version of RedTorch.com. Extensive government work experience from working with federal governments.” The Guy Fawkes mask/Anonymous threat featured prominently and often on RedTorch’s website. Now a cadre of former Norse Corp.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

One of the Apple iOS zero-day flaws exploited by the NSO group was also used by another surveillance firm named QuaDream. One of the vulnerabilities in Apple iOS that was previously exploited by the spyware developed by the Israeli company NSO Group was also separately used by another surveillance firm named QuaDream. as a zero-day.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Schools in the US have been using surveillance software to keep an eye on their students, and such software has grown significantly in popularity since the COVD-19 pandemic closed campuses nationwide. In fact, they worry that such surveillance could backfire. Source: The CDT).

Surveillance

Malwarebytes

APRIL 21, 2022

” John Scott-Railton recalled after finding out on July 7, 2020 that Pegasus, the highly sophisticated flagship spyware of Israel’s NSO Group, was used to infect a phone linked to the network at 10 Downing Street, the UK Prime Minister’s home and office. “When we found the No. 10 case, my jaw dropped.”

Spyware

Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

In 2023, the researchers attributed a combined total of 48 out of 58 zero-day vulnerabilities to commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) and government espionage actors, while 10 zero-day flaws were attributed to financially motivated actors. ” continues the report.

Government

Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

An interesting article published by The Intercept reveals the secretive business of a US surveillance firm named Anomaly Six. According to an interesting analysis published by The Intercept, Anomaly Six is a secretive government contractor that claims to monitor billions of phones worldwide.

Surveillance

SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

ScarCruft is known to target North Korean defectors, journalists who cover North Korea-related news and government organizations related to the Korean Peninsula, between others. Additionally, we discovered older variants of the malware, delivered via HWP documents, dating back to mid-2020. Contact: intelreports@kaspersky.com.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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 July 2020, KISMET was a zero-day against at least iOS 13.5.1 ” reads the report published by the researchers. and could hack Apple’s then-latest iPhone 11.

Hacking

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The p opular ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service have been blocked by the Russian government this week. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Government

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

While the US government is largely absent in this area of consumer protection, the state of California has recently stepped in and started regulating the Internet of Things, or "IoT" devices sold in the state­and the effects will soon be felt worldwide. It falls upon lawmakers to create laws that protect consumers. But we need more, and soon.

IoT

Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

Court ordered surveillance firm NSO Group to hand over the source code for its Pegasus spyware and other products to Meta. Judge ordered the surveillance firm to hand over the source code for its Pegasus spyware and other products to the social network giant. from April 29, 2018, to May 10, 2020).

Spyware

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying ransomware. The company has operations in 25 countries, more than 4,000 employees, and billions in revenue annually.

Hacking

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2022

These astonishing facts were released by the Washington Post that even added in its report that a special military sized cyber army was dedicated to this sophisticated data surveillance program that started in early 2020. Normally, such software are used by civilians for advertisement or market purposes.

Surveillance

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Bosch, known more for its line of refrigerators, ovens, and dishwashers, also develops and sells an entire suite of surveillance cameras. In 2020, for instance, Google implemented stricter controls against stalkerware-type applications. It shouldn’t. This is not innovation. It’s experimentation without foresight.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

Security experts from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax , against Colombian government institutions and private companies. Malware researchers from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax , against Colombian entities exclusively.

Malware

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

Along with innovation and technology proliferation, new challenges that will shape business during 2020. Last year brought a considerable shift in the global privacy legislation landscape and 2020 is going to be just as busy from a data protection standpoint. Unfortunately, privacy compliance is still lagging.

Data privacy

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The Sweden government is going to authorize the use of spyware on suspects’ devices to spy on their communications and track them. It aims to give the police the opportunity to better execute secret surveillance and for example also access the encrypted communication.” ” reads the official announcement.

Spyware

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. It’s a healthy thing that a captain of industry can see this. Advanced use cases.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

The vulnerabilities were exploited in three different campaigns analyzed by the researchers, it is interesting to note that three out of four exploits were developed by the same surveillance firm, The fourth exploit ( CVE-2021-1879 ) was likely developed by a Russia-linked APT group. ” reads the post published by Google.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Vietnam-linked APT32 group targeted Vietnamese human rights defenders (HRDs) between February 2018 and November 2020. The APT32 group has been active since at least 2012, it has targeted organizations across multiple industries and foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists.

Spyware

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2023

“The document said the exploit worked for Android versions 9 to 11, which was released in 2020, and that it took advantage of a flaw in the “image rendering library.” In 2020 and 2021, WhatsApp fixed three vulnerabilities — CVE-2020-1890, CVE-2020-1910, and CVE-2021-24041— that all involved how the app processes images.

Mobile

Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2021

The iPhones of nine activists, including members of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights , Waad , Al Wefaq , were infected with Pegasus spyware as part of a surveillance operation likely orchestrated by a threat actor tracked as LULU and attributed with high confidence to the government of Bahrain. ” concludes the report.

Spyware

Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2022

Hensoldt AG focuses on sensor technologies for protection and surveillance missions in the defence, security and aerospace sectors. billion euros in 2020. Like other ransomware gangs, Lorenz operators also implement double-extortion model by stealing data before encrypting it and threatening them if the victim doesn’t pay the ransom.

Ransomware

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2022

. “Court documents and government contracting records show the agencies tasked with monitoring the Mexican border have spent record sums on car hacking tools, while talking up the extraordinary amount of valuable evidence that can be reaped from onboard computers.”

Surveillance

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

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VPN

Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Qatari government-funded international Arabic news channel Al Jazeera announced to have blocked a series of disruptive cyberattacks aimed at its news publishing platform. 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.

Cyber Attacks

Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

Just where is the Global Cyber-defense Market going, and why is it failing so spectacularly to protect the data assets of the largest and most heavily protected government institutions and corporate companies in the world. 20 th Nov 2020 – Manchester United Football Club ( www.manutd.com ).

Cyber Attacks

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Experts uncovered a new threat actor, tracked as Balikbayan Foxes, that is impersonating the Philippine government to spread malware. . Both Remcos and NanoCore are used for information gathering, data exfiltration, surveillance, and control of the victims’ computers. . ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

Malware

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs today released its updated 2022 National Cyber Power Index (NCPI), a follow-up to its groundbreaking 2020 index that ranks 30 countries according to their capability and intent to pursue eight objectives of cyber power. Surveillance – 4th behind China, Vietnam, and Iran.

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