Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2025

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format This can lead to out of bounds writes since frames of this type were not taken into account when calculating the size of the frames buffer in uvc_parse_streaming. reads the advisory.

Hacking

Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

In Episode 356, Tom and Kevin discuss the increasing role of deepfake technology in bypassing biometric checks, accounting for 24 percent of fraud attempts. The conversation shifts to social media platforms Twitter, Blue […] The post Deepfake Fraud, Data Brokers Tracking Military Personnel appeared first on Shared Security Podcast.

Media

Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

Here's how to check if your accounts are at risk and what to do next. In the headline for a  recent story published by Cybernews , the cybersecurity media outlet said that 16 billion passwords were exposed in a record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable.

Passwords

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Here’s how data awareness can help HTTP Client Tools Exploitation for Account Takeover Attacks Dangerous hacker responsible for more than 40 cyberattacks on strategic organizations arrested Whos Behind the Seized Forums Cracked & Nulled? What are the risks?

Spyware

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

It uses blockchain-level cryptography and decentralized peer-to-peer connections to power secure video calls and messaging: with no accounts, no servers, and no stored data. Without spending anything, you can access rich media features, group chats, voice/video calls, and AI-powered tools like smart replies, all in one place.

Encryption

SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The attackers leveraged the VLC media player to deploy the FourteenHi backdoor after exploiting MS Exchange vulnerabilities. The second, an article published in 2024 by the Google Threat Analysis Group, described the business model of various companies that provide commercial surveillance solutions.

Malware

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many large companies had uploaded huge volumes of sensitive customer data to Snowflake accounts that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). prosecutors and federal law enforcement agencies. . “The rest is just ransom.”

Cybercrime

Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

Social engineering tactics such as phishing will not only remain prevalent but evolve as attackers leverage AI to craft highly personalised attacks (spear phishing and whaling) , mimicking a victim’s tone or referencing contextual details with alarming accuracy using data from social media, public records, and other sources.

Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

It uses blockchain-level cryptography and decentralized peer-to-peer connections to power secure video calls and messaging: with no accounts, no servers, and no stored data. Without spending anything, you can access rich media features, group chats, voice/video calls, and AI-powered tools like smart replies, all in one place.

Encryption

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Here's how to check if your accounts are at risk and what to do next. In the headline for a  recent story published by Cybernews , the cybersecurity media outlet said that 16 billion passwords were exposed in a record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable.

Passwords

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 9, 2025

There needs to be better corporate accountability, and that means CISOs need to fully document decisions by CEOs and boards to accept risks that are against the recommendation of company security leaders and experts. That, in turn, will help us to better design defensive strategies and tactics to thwart future attacks.

Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

MARCH 5, 2025

That headache is real, of course, but accountants and lawyers will step up to sort it out," said Mike Wilkes , Former CISO, MLS; Adjunct Professor, NYU. "Let's put aside for the moment any complexities to regulatory oversight and enforcement of compliance standards for companies operating in China, Mexico, and Canada.

Cyber Risk

Zero Day

JULY 29, 2025

You can then act swiftly before cybercriminals take full control of your compromised accounts. Also, the country doesn't belong to the 5/9/14 Eyes Alliances, referring to countries that share surveillance data and intelligence on their citizens. Sign in to your account, navigate to the billing section, and can cancel auto-renewal.

VPN

Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

Soldier Charged in AT&T Hack Searched Can Hacking Be Treason Group-IB contributes to joint operation of Royal Thai Police and Singapore Police Force leading to arrest of cybercriminal behind more than 90 data leaks worldwide UAC-0173 against the Notary Office of Ukraine (CERT-UA#13738) North Korea Responsible for $1.5

Cybercrime

Zero Day

JUNE 27, 2025

With just one click, I generated my account on the website, paid for a subscription, and that was it -- no need to navigate through many pages and enter personal information. IVPN has a minimalist and beginner-friendly app, but it's quite limited in connections  Getting started with IVPN is as effortless as it gets.

VPN

WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 7, 2025

In Tennessee alone, the fusion center memo notes that state officials have received at least 25 suspicious activity reports over the past decade, detailing attempted surveillance and theft. But as trust in media and public institutions craters, every single major news event is now being labeled as fake. All rights reserved.

Government

WIRED Threat Level

JULY 3, 2025

He points to past media appearances from border czar Tom Homan, where Homan condemned congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for sharing information about the immigrants’ legal rights, as emblematic of the administration’s lack of respect for constitutionality. They're gonna fire off hate rhetoric at you. They're gonna threaten you.”

Accountability

Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. In a 2022 survey , Americans blamed social media for the coarsening of our political discourse, the spread of misinformation, and the increase in partisan polarization. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. AI also has those attributes.

Media

Schneier on Security

JULY 15, 2019

This can give a complete account of where someone has driven over any time period. All of this information is aggregated and synthesized in a way that gives law enforcement nearly omniscient knowledge over any suspect they decide to surveil. Meanwhile : The FBI wants to gather more information from social media.

Surveillance

The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

OpenAI on Friday revealed that it banned a set of accounts that used its ChatGPT tool to develop a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tool.

Surveillance

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The companies that were ordered to respond own some of the household social media and streaming service names. Some of the specific information that the FTC was looking for included: How social media and video streaming services collect, use, track, estimate, or derive personal and demographic information.

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

JUNE 12, 2020

This is a weird story : Hernandez was able to evade capture for so long because he used Tails, a version of Linux designed for users at high risk of surveillance and which routes all inbound and outbound connections through the open-source Tor network to anonymize it. address of a person viewing a clip.

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2018

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further. Google's surveillance isn't in the news, but it's startlingly intimate. That phone is probably the most intimate surveillance device ever invented. We never lie to our search engines.

Surveillance

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In a groundbreaking investigative report, the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) media network, with technical assistance from Amnesty International's Security Lab, has exposed the shocking extent of the global surveillance crisis and the glaring inadequacies of EU regulation in curbing it.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

In October 2019, WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. ” reported Motherboard, the media outlet that disclosed the story. According to the NSO CEO, Facebook was interested in improving surveillance capabilities on iOS devices of the Onavo Protect.

Surveillance

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.

Surveillance

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2023

Days after Meta achieved victory after suing the NSO Group for Computer Fraud and Abuse Act charges, Meta filed a lawsuit against surveillance company Voyager Labs for violations of its Terms and Policies and California law. Court documents show that no later than July 2022, Voyager began using its thousands of fake accounts to scrape data.

Surveillance

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2024

We have seen several high-profile accounts that were taken over on X (formerly Twitter) only to be used for cryptocurrency related promotional activities, like expressing the approval of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The @SECGov X account was compromised, and an unauthorized post was posted. You’re all set.

Accountability

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Authorities in Thailand are investigating a cyber attack that resulted in the broadcast of surveillance video from inside a prison in the country’s south. The video was published on Tuesday by an account named “ BigBrother’s Gaze,” the images from several cameras showed prisoners’ operations.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2024

Threat actors hacked the X account of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and used it to publish the fake news on the Bitcoin ETF approval. Hackers hijacked the X account of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and used it to publish fake news on the Bitcoin ETF approval. ” Gensler wrote.

Accountability

Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

The Israeli surveillance firm QuaDream is allegedly shutting down its operations after Citizen Lab and Microsoft uncovered their spyware. Last week Citizen Lab researchers reported that at least five civil society members were victims of spyware and exploits developed by the Israeli surveillance firm QuaDream. and 14.4.2,

Surveillance

Krebs on Security

JUNE 17, 2020

The CIA produced the report in October 2017, roughly seven months after Wikileaks began publishing Vault 7 — reams of classified data detailing the CIA’s capabilities to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. No effective removable media controls. Moving too slowly to enact key security safeguards.

Data breaches

SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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)

Surveillance

Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2022

for “deceptive statements” the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service , which until recently required anyone seeking a new IRS account online to provide a live video selfie to ID.me. ” But several days after a Jan.

Government

Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

Researchers at the Lookout Threat Lab have discovered a new Android surveillance spyware, dubbed BouldSpy, that was used by the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FARAJA). However, much of the victim data points to its broader usage, which indicates targeted surveillance efforts towards minorities within Iran.”

Surveillance

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The social media giant broke the news to US Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. It is noted that Twitter’s decision to move away from Mitto AG came after allegations that its co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Ilja Gorelik, sold access to Mitto’s networks to surveillance technology firms.

Surveillance

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The report makes several recommendations to mitigate the systemic vulnerabilities, most of them widely recognized best cybersecurity practices including multi-factor authentication, increased video surveillance at facilities, securing server racks and placing tighter controls on removable media such as USB keys.

Risk