Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4 SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

According to the alert issued by the FBI, the swatters have been hijacking smart devices such as video and audio capable home surveillance devices. Threat actors likely take advantage of customers’ bad habit of re-using email passwords for their smart device. Users should update their passwords on a regular basis.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MAY 30, 2023

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Physical Security Risk Level You may have thought that hackers wore black suits and rappelled off the roof to hack a company, but that only exists in Hollywood. It is also essential to evaluate inactive accounts and terminate access on a regular basis.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2023

It encompasses various forms of cybercrime and online harm, including cyberstalking, tracking, hacking accounts and intimate image abuse. A common example of this is surveillance. Still, it might not be seen that way due to the normalization of surveillance and the narrative that 'surveillance is love'.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

MAY 30, 2023

Category Awareness, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Physical Security Risk Level You may have thought that hackers wore black suits and rappelled off the roof to hack a company, but that only exists in Hollywood. It is also essential to evaluate inactive accounts and terminate access on a regular basis.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For most small businesses, the chances of falling prey to a long-term covert surveillance operation by well-resourced, likely state-backed actors are slim. This shows that stealthily surveilling a network is not a tactic exclusive to highly sophisticated threat actors targeting enterprise businesses.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

Experts observed multiple botnets exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in DVRs for surveillance systems manufactured by Taiwan-based LILIN. Botnet operators are exploiting several zero-day vulnerabilities in digital video recorders (DVRs) for surveillance systems manufactured by Taiwan-based LILIN-. SecurityAffairs – hacking, LILIN).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. On June 11, 2017, Terpin’s phone went dead.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

Investigators allege Handschumacher was part of a group of at least nine individuals scattered across multiple states who for the past two years have drained bank accounts via an increasingly common scheme involving mobile phone “SIM swaps.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 9, 2021

Verkada, a silicon valley based company that offers cloud based security surveillance services was reportedly breached by hackers on Monday this week. All customers who could have been impacted will be notified digitally about the hack and the measures to take to avoid any cyber attack repercussions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2018

A vulnerability in the Guardzilla home video surveillance system could be exploited by users to watch Guardzilla footage of other users. The Guardzilla All-In-One Video Security System is an indoor video surveillance solution. “ The bad news is that the vendor hasn’t yet addressed the flaw.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

A week after it landed with a curious (and most likely spurious) thud, Zuckerberg’s announcement about a new tack on consumer privacy still has the feel of an unexpected message from some parallel universe where surveillance (commercial and/or spycraft) isn’t the new normal. This article originally appeared on Inc.com.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

These practices can lead to account compromise, or enabling unauthorised users to access sensitive data and escalate privileges. Sounds like excessive surveillance? It’s the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge. MORE People’s password habits are getting better … slowly. Links we liked A fun new Yuletide game?

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Earlier this year, 36 journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera had their personal phones hacked. Their phones were hacked through the use of an exploit chain known as KISMET, an invisible zero-click exploit in iMessage. and could hack the Apple iPhone 11.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2019

The Android caller ID app Dalil exposed online data belonging over 5 million users, security experts discovered a MongoDB database left accessible on the web without a password. The availability of this data represents a serious threat to the privacy of the users, threat actors could use it for surveillance activity.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2019

Crooks used rare Steganography technique to hack fully patched websites in Latin America. Jessica Alba ‘s Twitter account hacked, it posted racist and homophobic messages. Android devices could be hacked by playing a video due to CVE-2019-2107 flaw. Hacking avionics systems through the CAN bus. Cisco to pay $8.6

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2019

During the last month, our Threat Intelligence surveillance team spotted increasing evidence of an operation intensification against the Banking sector. At this time, we have no evidence to hypothesize it could be a victim of previous hacks or not. Introduction. Figure 4: Malware suspicious entropy level.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But the dark web is also associated with illegal activities including the trafficking of drugs, weapons, and illegal pornography, hacking and cybercrime, terrorism, and the sale of stolen data or personal information. He was charged with money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

IoT-enabled scams and hacks quickly ramped up to a high level – and can be expected to accelerate through 2021 and beyond. Hacking collectives are very proficient at “exploiting weak authentication schemes to gain persistence inside of a targeted network,” Sherman says. In response, threat actors are hustling to take full advantage.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Experts uncovered a hacking campaign targeting several WordPress Plugins. White hat hacker demonstrated how to hack a million Instagram accounts. Expert found Russias SORM surveillance equipment leaking user data. Foxit Software discloses a data breach that exposed user passwords. Remove it now from your phone!

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

Other types of data that you should consider private include: Your bank account number and card details. Login information for online accounts you have. This has brought on the announcement of several data collection and access regulations that companies need to follow to protect citizens against hacking and identity theft.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

The list of functionalities implemented by the spyware includes: Track device location Get nearby cell tower info Retrieve accounts and associated passwords. SecurityAffairs – spyware, surveillance). Record audio and calls Suicide functionality and cleanup of staging files. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2021

They fell foul to password reuse. This means criminals figuring out the passwords to other criminals’ web shells could also potentially access the compromised servers. They allow attackers to access and creep around inside the compromised networks. Additionally, it seems that not all shells were properly locked down.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Titled “ Everyone’s afraid of the internet and no one’s sure what to do about it ,” the report reveals that too many people spy on their spouses , too few use unique passwords , and too many who are worried about identity theft don’t actually do anything about it (and to those people, we say: We’ve got you covered ).

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2018

AVTech is one of the world’s leading CCTV manufacturers, it is the largest public-listed company in the Taiwan surveillance industry. The security expert Ankit Anubhav who discovered the Death botnet revealed that outdated firmware versions expose the passwords of the AVTech device in cleartext. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Leading Android health apps expose users to avoidable threats like surveillance and identity theft, due to their risky permissions. Malicious apps could use this data for tracking or unauthorized account access. These can include Google, email, and other accounts set up on the device. Cybernews has the story.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

“Through proactive surveillance, LifeLabs recently identified a cyber-attack that involved unauthorized access to our computer systems with customer information that could include name, address, email, login, passwords, date of birth, health card number and lab test results.” ” said Brown.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Money Transfer Scam – Scammers hack the victims’s email accounts, monitor conversations between the buyers and title agents, send instructions on where to wire the money. Scammers hack the email accounts of their victims and monitor conversations between the buyers and title agents.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2019

Amnesty International filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance firm NSO. G Suite users passwords stored in plain-text for more than 14 years. UK provided evidence to 16 NATO allies of Russia hacking campaigns. billion accounts in Q1 2019. Salesforce faced one of its biggest service disruption of ever.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2018

Positive Technologies discovered two flaws affecting Dongguan Diqee 360 smart vacuums that can be used to perform video surveillance. To succeed, the attacker must authenticate on the device—which is made easier by the fact that many affected devices have the default username and password combination (admin:888888).”

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Instead of encrypting the hard drives of individual victims, and demanding payments of a few hundred dollars, a skilled team collaborated to break into an organization’s network; surveil the network layout; and then embed the malware. Nuanced hacks Another ring honing automated, active techniques is the Baldr password stealing gang.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) researchers linked a threat group known as Knotweed to an Austrian surveillance firm named DSIRF, known for using multiple Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Subzero malware). ” concludes Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

That ban, which came in response to a series of bank account takeovers in which cybercriminals used aggregation sites to surveil and drain consumer accounts, has since been rescinded. But the incident raises fresh questions about the proper role of digital banking platforms in fighting password abuse.

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