Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt PREDATOR IN THE WIRES OilRig’s Outer Space and Juicy Mix: Same ol’ rig, new drill pipes Cybersecurity Apple and Google Are Introducing New Ways to Defeat Cell Site Simulators, But Is it Enough?

Cyber Attacks 84

Cyber Attacks Firewall Data breaches Telecommunications 84

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

Today’s innovations and technologies provide tremendous opportunities for enterprises. Along with innovation and technology proliferation, new challenges that will shape business during 2020. In addition, malicious actors can and will adopt technologies such as AI and machine learning faster than security leaders can.

Data privacy 89

Data privacy IoT Data breaches Surveillance 89

Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2018

Positive Technologies discovered two flaws affecting Dongguan Diqee 360 smart vacuums that can be used to perform video surveillance. “Like any other IoT device, these robot vacuum cleaners could be marshalled into a botnet for DDoS attacks, but that’s not even the worst-case scenario, at least for owners.

Firmware 43

Firmware Surveillance Authentication Technology 43

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The good news is that we already possess the technology, as well as the best practices frameworks, to mitigate fast-rising IoT exposures. Mirai ultimately was used to carry out massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This surge can, and must, be blunted. This is a sign of IoT attacks to come.

IoT 279

IoT Healthcare Internet Internet 279

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Vulnerable devices could be used to spread malware within the enterprise, used for corporate espionage, surveillance of personnel, or plan whaling phishing campaigns. For instance, malicious actors can use malware to enslave exposed IoT devices into a botnet and launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

IoT 122

IoT Risk Energy and Utilities Healthcare 122

Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2020

5G technology is here, it is the right time to discuss security and privacy in smart cities and their possible evolution. After a long talk and eagerly waiting, finally, 5G technology is here. The network enables a wave of new technologies as well as services that were only stuff of imagination a few years ago. He is a geek.

Digital transformation 46

Digital transformation Technology Advertising Surveillance 46

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Twitter will allow using the SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) only to its Blue subscribers GoDaddy discloses a new data breach Fortinet fixes critical vulnerabilities in FortiNAC and FortiWeb German airport websites hit by DDos attacks once again Cisco fixed critical RCE bug in ClamAV Open-Source Antivirus engine CISA adds Cacti, Office, Windows (..)

DDOS 83

DDOS Data breaches Surveillance Ransomware 83

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We have seen targeted attacks exploiting the vulnerability to target companies in research and development, the energy sector and other major industries, banking, the medical technology sector, as well as telecoms and IT. FinSpy: analysis of current capabilities. On top of its theft functions, the malware includes tools to thwart analysis.

Malware 86

Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 86

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Bogachev is accused of running the Gameover Zeus botnet , a massive crime machine of 500,000 to 1 million infected PCs that was used for large DDoS attacks and for spreading Cryptolocker — a peer-to-peer ransomware threat that was years ahead of its time. “The Americans were unhappy, and a little surprised.

Banking 268

Banking Small Business Accountability Cybercrime 268

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

Subsequently, DDoS attacks hit several government websites. In December we were made aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our firmware scanning technology. Some capabilities we analyzed are similar to those provided in other notorious post-exploitation toolkits. Other interesting discoveries.

Malware 130

Malware Firmware Government Phishing 130

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

If they manage to compromise a telecommunications company, they can then also compromise its customers for surveillance or sabotage purposes. Such threats, including traffic manipulation and DDoS attacks, will become much more frequent and effective due to the large number of insecure devices connected and wide bandwidth.

Banking 86

Banking Telecommunications Marketing Internet 86

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Once a system is infected, ransomware attacks usually come in 3 stages: Surveillance: The hackers scan their target for more information on the system they are attacking. This makes them incredibly difficult to detect and remove, though there are tools like rootkit scanners which can help.

Malware 69

Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 69

ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

And that was a key point in figuring out, you know, where this guy really lived, and where he was close to in proximity, you know, at least parts of a city where we could say hey, we need somebody to go in there and try to do surveillance and find find this guy with this car and these types of identica [MUSIC] VAMOSI: Think about it.

Hacking 40

Hacking Media InfoSec Internet 40

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

APT targeting turns toward satellite technologies, producers and operators The only known case of an attack utilizing satellite technologies that happened in recent years was the KA-SAT network hack of 2022. First, they can carry out actual cyberattacks, including DDoS attacks , data theft or destruction, website defacement, and so on.

Hacking 102

Hacking Energy and Utilities Media Malware 102