Remove Accountability Remove Internet Remove Surveillance Remove VPN
article thumbnail

ScarCruft surveilling North Korean defectors and human rights activists

SecureList

The victim was infected by PowerShell malware and we discovered evidence that the actor had already stolen data from the victim and had been surveilling this victim for several months. After a conversation on social media, the actor sent a spear-phishing email to the potential victim using a stolen email account. documents), /??(pictures)

article thumbnail

The War in Technology: A Digital Iron Curtain Goes Up

SecureWorld News

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake “Emergency Data Requests”

Krebs on Security

There is a terrifying and highly effective “method” that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms. ” A month prior on Cracked, Everlynn posted a sales thread, “1x Government Email Account || BECOME A FED!,”

article thumbnail

A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

DNS 271
article thumbnail

VulnRecap 3/4/24 – Ivanti, Ubiquiti, AppLocker Under Attack

eSecurity Planet

Azure-Connected IoT Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Type of vulnerability: Internet of things (IoT) RCE vulnerability. February 28, 2024 Internet Exposed 3D-Printers Hacked to Broadcast Vulnerability Exposure Type of vulnerability: Missing valid credential check in printer service APIs. and a medium (CVSS 4.3) level vulnerability.

IoT 114
article thumbnail

Jumpstart your adoption of Zero Trust with these three steps

SC Magazine

Legacy VPN, and related technologies, aren’t just slow, they’re characteristic of technologies that rely on implicit trust. Doing so prevents account takeover by adding an additional layer of security that attackers will struggle to defeat. Existing security technologies are not effective in protecting SaaS applications.

VPN 64
article thumbnail

The Zero Click, Zero Day iMessage Attack Against Journalists

SecureWorld News

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. And watchdog groups say its products are often found to be used in surveillance abuses.

Spyware 52