SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

And it might have been prepared for this moment, years ago, as a surveillance tool. It's easy to put surveillance on telecoms if you have a foothold," Kubecka said. The reports were inaccurate, based on misinterpretations of the documents, which were real. Advancing Russian troops need it to communicate.

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

Once the victim opens an infected document and agrees to enable macros, the malware is dropped onto the system and proceeds to a multi-stage deployment procedure. The Apple M1, a direct relative of the processors used in the iPhone and iPad, will ultimately allow Apple to unify its software under a single architecture.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The opening lines of the lawsuit say it all: "Defendants are notorious hackers—amoral 21st century mercenaries who have created highly sophisticated cyber-surveillance machinery that invites routine and flagrant abuse.". And Apple's Head of Security Engineering and Architecture was extremely blunt when he announced the lawsuit on Twitter.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I highly recommend reading Zuboff’s New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power as well as viewing Rifkin’s riveting speech, The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

See translation Will buy 0day/1day RCE in IoT Escrow See translation Hi, I want to buy IoT exploits with devices located in Korea Any architecture There are also offers to purchase and sell IoT malware on dark web forums, often packaged with infrastructure and supporting utilities. Therefore, we did not issue a certificate.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Security infrastructure and redundancy: Check the vendor’s data centers, network architecture, backup and disaster recovery plans, and uptime assurances. Assess the physical security measures: Evaluate access controls, surveillance systems, and environmental controls.

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Notice Bored

MARCH 14, 2022

Controls against fraud perpetrated by insiders (managers or staff), partners, outsiders/unknown parties, and potentially several (collusion) is another weak area in the standard. Oversight, for instance, is a valuable control (or rather, a cloud of related controls) that is almost universally applicable.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2024

Document the findings: Keep track of the discovered assets, their classification, and the rationale for priority. Create response processes: Document the steps to be done in response to different types of security incidents, such as your strategies for detection, containment, eradication, and recovery plans in case of an attack.

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Notice Bored

JUNE 23, 2022

e))', which I won't quote in full but summarise and critique here: The RTP documents the outputs from '27001 clause 6.1.3 Design plan' hints at the organisation having developed an information risk and security architecture. So, as far as I'm concerned, feel free to stamp " RTP " on whatever risk management documents you currently use!

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2024

Their password health checker and real-time dark web surveillance also improve overall security. Dashlane uses thorough breach scanning to provide password health scores, security alerts, and dark web monitoring. It employs security features like 256-bit AES encryption and 2FA, with master passwords encrypted using PBKDF2.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A creative avenue for threat actors is to expand their surveillance efforts to include devices such as smart home cameras, connected car systems and beyond. It also encompasses the capability to generate documents for impersonation and mimic the style of specific individuals, such as a business partner or a colleague of the victim.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Whether you’re a seasoned cloud expert or just starting out, understanding IaaS security is critical for a resilient and secure cloud architecture. Physical Security Measures At their data centers, IaaS companies apply stringent physical security measures such as access restrictions, surveillance, and environmental controls.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

9 Best Practices for Cloud Data Security Effective cloud data security practices consist of identifying and categorizing data, applying unified visibility, regulating resource access, encrypting data, deploying DLP, enhancing data posture, monitoring risks, and using a single platform for documentation.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

The design company will install surveillance cameras and data loss prevention (DLP) technology to monitor physical and digital theft attempts. At the clothing brand, the surveillance camera may catch people sitting in cars across the street and using binoculars to spy on the design team, which may require installing window covers.

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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. Limiting cyberwar funding Development of the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA) will be restricted until U.S.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Mirai botnet contributed to a massive denial of service attack that brought parts of the Internet to a standstill, what was remarkable was that Mariah was constructed from 1000s of Internet of Things devices, namely surveillance cameras. Right, just basic HTML, every browser can support it, they support it almost identically.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

The Mirai botnet contributed to a massive denial of service attack that brought parts of the Internet to a standstill, what was remarkable was that Mariah was constructed from 1000s of Internet of Things devices, namely surveillance cameras. Right, just basic HTML, every browser can support it, they support it almost identically.

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IoT Hacking Internet Internet 52

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

While we were unable to obtain the same results by analyzing the CERT-UA samples, we subsequently identified a different WhiteBlackCrypt sample matching the WhisperKill architecture and sharing similar code. The malware was more advanced than the samples identified earlier in the year that we documented in two of our private reports.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The campaign is said to involve breaking into news websites or social media accounts of government officials in order to publish forged documents, fake news and misleading opinions meant to sway elections, disrupt local political eco-systems and create distrust of NATO. Despite threats , the EU ultimately decided not to impose sanctions.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This strategic shift signals its intent to intensify its surveillance capabilities and expand its range of targets. The group targets its victims by sending spear-phishing emails with Microsoft Office documents attached. At that time, we showed that Owowa may have been developed by a Chinese-speaking individual.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

FinSpy, also known as FinFisher or Wingbird , is an infamous surveillance toolset. The Post-Validator collects information that allows it to identify the victim machine (running processes, recently opened documents, screenshots) and sends it to a C2 server specified in its configuration. The Trojan Loader.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A multi-hop architecture is preferable for some applications because of its added security (packets are re-encrypted for each hop), but it can introduce latency. Zero Trust Architecture and Privileged Access Management: VPNs allow users into the perimeter of a business system. Each server-to-server connection is called a “hop.”

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Security Boulevard

MAY 13, 2025

These files documented both the identification of exposed systems and successful exploitation attempts, offering insight into the attacker's victimology: CVE-2025-31324-results.txt documenting 581 SAP NetWeaver instances compromised and backdoored with Webshell. _20250427_212229.txt Figure 12 - Bash script code in STL.sh.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

VAMOSI: Once the classified documents were found online, there was an effort -- both by law enforcement and by the media -- to identify the leaker. It turns out some of the classified documents were photographed on a marble countertop, like in a kitchen countertop. That’s understandable, given his age. They could. And there were.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Government actions will increase: Expect more government regulations, state-sponsored cyberattacks, and increased documentation required to protect CISOs. However, this disruptive change from traditional models will prompt a change in the focus of phishing campaigns to bypass these new architectures.

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