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China Surveillance Company Hacked

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I-Soon sells hacking and espionage services to Chinese national and local government. Lots of details in the news articles. And they seem to primarily be hacking regionally. Last week, someone posted something like 570 files, images and chat logs from a Chinese company called I-Soon.

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Mexican Drug Cartels with High-Tech Spyware

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Lots of details in the article. The cyberweapons arms business is immoral in many ways. This is just one of them.

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Latest on the SVR’s SolarWinds Hack

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The New York Times has an in-depth article on the latest information about the SolarWinds hack (not a great name, since it’s much more far-reaching than that). There is also no indication yet that any human intelligence alerted the United States to the hacking.

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Facebook Helped Develop a Tails Exploit

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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. I'm fine with the FBI using vulnerabilities: lawful hacking , it's called.

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German authorities raid the offices of the FinFisher surveillance firm

Security Affairs

Earlier this month, German authorities have raided the offices of FinFisher, the German surveillance software firm, accused of providing its software to oppressive regimes. The company denied accusations and sued the German blog and requested the removal of the article on the case. SecurityAffairs – hacking, K-Electric).

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Apple dismisses lawsuit against surveillance firm NSO Group due to risk of threat intelligence exposure

Security Affairs

The IT giant fears that the disclosures of its threat intelligence related to commercial spyware operations could aid NSO and other surveillance firms. ” reads The court filing referenced an article published by The Guardian article reporting that Israeli officials seized files from NSO Group’s headquarters.

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On Chinese "Spy Trains"

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News articles talk about " spy trains ," and the possibility that the train cars might surreptitiously monitor their passengers' faces, movements, conversations or phone calls. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance. This is a complicated topic.