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Long-running surveillance campaigns target Uyghurs with BadBazaar and MOONSHINE spyware

Security Affairs

The threat actors behind the campaigns used two Android spyware to spy on the victims and steal sensitive information. APT15 has been active since at least 2010, it conducted cyber espionage campaigns against targets worldwide in several industries, including defense, high tech, energy, government, aerospace, and manufacturing.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 464 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

surfaces in the threat landscape Pokemon Company resets some users’ passwords Ukraine cyber police arrested crooks selling 100 million compromised accounts New AcidPour wiper targets Linux x86 devices. Is it a Russia’s weapon? Players hacked during the matches of Apex Legends Global Series.

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Restructuring at Controversial NSO Group: Will It Make a Difference?

SecureWorld News

Israeli spyware company NSO Group has experienced quite a bit of controversy in the last few years. Its spyware product, Pegasus, has been used by various criminals and nation states to target individuals of interest, such as activists, politicians, and business leaders. After being blacklisted by the U.S.,

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Hackers threaten to leak a copy of the World-Check database used to assess potential risks associated with entities

Security Affairs

The threat actors shared a portion of the stolen data with TechCrunch as proof of the hack, it includes records on current and former government officials, diplomats, and politically exposed people. The list also includes criminals, suspected terrorists, intelligence operatives and a European spyware firm.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 377

Security Affairs

affiliate sideloads Cobalt Strike through Windows Defender Gootkit AaaS malware is still active and uses updated tactics Austria investigates DSIRF firm for allegedly developing Subzero spyware ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have stolen data from Creos Luxembourg S.A. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Operation Falcon: Group-IB helps INTERPOL identify Nigerian BEC ring members

Security Affairs

Group-IB supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT. Group-IB , a global threat hunting and intelligence company, supported an INTERPOL-led operation Falcon targeting business email compromise (BEC) cybercrime gang from Nigeria, dubbed TMT by Group-IB.

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Extortion, precision malware, and ruthless scams. Read the State of Malware 2021 report

Malwarebytes

Around the world, governments tried to stop their hospitals from being overwhelmed by ordering lockdowns, stay-in-place orders, and school closures. If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that cybercrime stops for nothing. By April 2020, half the world’s population had been asked or ordered to stay at home.

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