Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2021

A group of hackers claimed to have compromised more than 150,000 surveillance cameras at banks, jails, schools, and prominent companies like Tesla and Equinox. A group of US hackers claimed to have gained access to footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, healthcare clinics, and prominent organizations.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 22, 2021

Chine Foreign Ministry has issued a public statement condemning the distribution and usage of Pegasus Spyware surveillance software by various countries. Now, to those uninitiated, Israel-based NSO Group developed Pegasus surveillance software that was meant for government organizations to spy on criminal suspects.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 24, 2025

That warning has prompted discussion across the cybersecurity community, including from former CISA Director Jen Easterly , who emphasized vigilance and resilience in the face of global instability in this LinkedIn post: Destructive malware and mobile surveillance: Iran's capabilities Iran's cyber arsenal includes more than basic espionage.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Update now! Last week on ThreatDown: Hands-on-keyboard (HOK) attacks: How ransomware gangs attack in real-time Ransomware insurance is funding cybercrime, says White House official 5 tools IT admins should block right now Stay safe!

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Banking industry giant NCR Corp. [ NYSE: NCR ] late last month took the unusual step of temporarily blocking third-party financial data aggregators Mint and QuicBooks Online from accessing Digital Insight , an online banking platform used by hundreds of financial institutions. Part of a communication NCR sent Oct.

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Heimadal Security

APRIL 14, 2022

This RAT can be used for a variety of reasons, including surveillance and penetration testing, and has even been employed in hacking campaigns in […]. The post RemcosRAT Malware Is Targeting African Banks appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

References The Norwegian government is now on HIBP (that's now the 6th gov, the 7th will be announced in the coming days) Banks are communicating in precisely the fashion they're warning their customers about (is it a phish, or banks comms? Mass surveillance is a reality.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 9, 2021

From surveillance camera footage examined by fraud investigators, the perpetrators have followed the same playbook in each incident. ” Chain gang members at work on a Texas bank ATM. In 2019, the average amount stolen in a traditional bank robbery was just $1,797, according to the FBI. Image: Texas Bankers Association.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. Attackers exploited the flaw in the SS7 protocol to defeat the 2FA authentication used by Metro Bank to protect its customers. ” said the Bank spokesman. .”

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 18, 2022

Sure, banks want credit cards to be impervious to fraud, but if the security measures also regularly prevent us from using our own credit cards, we would rebel and banks would lose money. So banks often put ease of use ahead of security. But when we’re talking about milder attacks, the balance is less obvious.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The one I encountered was at a Virginia county sheriff’s office, and it has two parking spots reserved with a sign that reads, “Internet Purchase & Exchange Location: This Area is Under 24 Hour Video Surveillance” [image above]. And it appears most states now have them in at least some major cities.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

New data leak threatens the world of finance after the Panama Papers , hackers published 2TB of the Cayman National bank’s confidential data. The Cayman National has a branch on the Isle of Man that focuses in offshore banking. ” reported the website Unicorn Riot. Terabytes, it calls the leak Sherwood. .”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

An ad for RedTorch’s “Cheetah” counter-surveillance tech. Justice Department unsealed indictments against three North Korean hackers accused of plundering and pillaging Sony Pictures , launching the WannaCry ransomware contagion of 2017 , and stealing more than $200 million from banks and other victims worldwide.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

if you'd like to change your password (frankly, I'd be more inclined to change my bank!) Mass surveillance is a reality. But hey, at least FinecoBank got some press out of it! A VPN can't solve this issue, but it's a great first step.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Our business solutions remove all remnants of ransomware and prevent you from getting reinfected.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2023

government added surveillance technology vendors Cytrox and Intellexa to an economic blocklist for trafficking in cyber exploits. Government warns of the key role that surveillance technology plays in surveillance activities that can lead to repression and other human rights abuses. national security or foreign policy interests.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In August, Gunnebo said it had successfully thwarted a ransomware attack, but this week it emerged that the intruders stole and published online tens of thousands of sensitive documents — including schematics of client bank vaults and surveillance systems.

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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. The targeted entities are law firms, banks, and strategic consultancies.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2022

When people banking in the United States lose money because their payment card got skimmed at an ATM , gas pump or grocery store checkout terminal , they may face hassles or delays in recovering any lost funds, but they are almost always made whole by their financial institution. banking system. For starters, nobody says they have to.

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SecureList

JUNE 16, 2021

Decoy image found within one of the malicious executables showing a protest against the central bank of Iran. When run, the executables display decoy content to the victims, with some presenting images of protests against the Iranian regime and its institutions, or videos from resistance camps. Analysis of MarkiRAT.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

For example, Manafort provided the bank with doctored [profit and loss statements] for [Davis Manafort Inc.] The FBI is 100% wrong that they're going dark ; it's really the golden age of surveillance , and the FBI's panic is really just its own lack of technical sophistication. Here's the relevant passage from the indictment.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The modifications seen in the TgToxic payloads reflect the actors' ongoing surveillance of open source intelligence and demonstrate their commitment to enhancing the

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. Attackers exploited the flaw in the SS7 protocol to defeat the 2FA authentication used by Metro Bank to protect its customers. ” said the Bank spokesman. .”

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

We assess the exploits were packaged by a single commercial surveillance company, Cytrox, and sold to different govt-backed actors. The attacks aimed at installing the surveillance spyware Predator, developed by the North Macedonian firm Cytrox. link] — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) May 19, 2022. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2022

Below the organizations breached in the last three days, since my previous update: Tendertech is a firm specializing in processing financial and banking documents on behalf of businesses and entrepreneurs. The list of the partner banks of the firms includes Transcapitalbank, Bank Uralsib, Bank Soyuz, RGS Bank, Bank ZENIT and Otkritie Bank.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We are both under constant surveillance and are competing for star rankings. I can’t even describe the banking system I trusted when I used an ATM this morning. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. Data brokers buy that surveillance data from the smaller companies, and assemble detailed dossiers on us.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2022

Austria is investigating a report that an Austrian firm DSIRF developed spyware targeting law firms, banks and consultancies. The group targets entities in Europe and Central America with a surveillance tool dubbed Subzero. The targeted entities are law firms, banks, and strategic consultancies.

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Joseph Steinberg

AUGUST 2, 2022

Utopia seeks to help transform our society into one in which everyone can feel free from censorship, surveillance, and data leakage — and does so by increasingly helping people to reliably answer the question “How can I to protect myself and my data in the global information space?” The one person handling Internet security.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

” “Fraudsters were also observed on criminal forums discussing using the Informed Delivery service to surveil potential identity theft victims,” the Secret Service memo reads. “The thief began receiving photos of Chris’ mail and also opened a bank credit card in Chris’ wife’s name.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 29, 2020

It says Ralphs may pry into "financial and payment information like your bank account, credit and debit card numbers, and your credit history.". Wait, it gets even better.

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Zero Day

JUNE 17, 2025

"The company and its founder have worked with government spy agencies and surveillance industry contractors to surveil mobile phones and track user location," Bloomberg reported. In this instance, the messages passed through a controversial Swiss outfit named Fink Telecom Services.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 29, 2020

Such a system is likely to make many such mistakes; it won’t know that a bank teller is shielded from transmission because they’re behind plexiglass, or that two people close together in a building are actually in separate apartments divided by a wall.” COVID-19 quite clearly is forcing the privacy issue, which could be a good thing.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2025

The lawsuit claims that this gave Bathula login credentials for the victims’ personal accounts and systems, including bank accounts, emails, home surveillance systems, Dropbox accounts, Google Drives, dating applications, Google Nests, and iCloud accounts.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2021

Hackers were able to gain access to camera feeds from Verkada, a tech company that specializes in video security and physical access control, to demonstrate how prevalent surveillance is, reports say. It is also a metaphor used to illustrate surveillance technology. If you are a Verkada customer, no action is required on your part.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

CVE-2019-2234 flaws in Android Camera Apps exposed millions of users surveillance. Hackers leak 2TB of Data From Cayman National Bank stolen by Phineas Fisher. Russian author of NeverQuest banking malware gets 4 Years in U.S. CTHoW v2.0 – Cyber Threat Hunting on Windows. Personal and social information of 1.2B

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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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SecureWorld News

APRIL 13, 2025

These include access control systems, surveillance cameras, and perimeter security, which help deter, detect, delay and respond to potential breaches, providing a comprehensive layer of protection against both physical and cyber threats. For example, a Gulf-based bank struggled with high false positive alerts.

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