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The Zero Click, Zero Day iMessage Attack Against Journalists

SecureWorld News

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. And watchdog groups say its products are often found to be used in surveillance abuses. Spyware attacks becoming harder to detect.

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IT threat evolution Q1 2024

SecureList

This RAT allows an attacker to surveil and harvest sensitive data from a target computer. However, some of the things the malware authors came up with, such as placing their Python script inside a domain TXT record on the DNS server, were ingenious. It simulated the isolated system without access to the internet.

Banking 63
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 221 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Germany and the Netherlands agreded to build TEN, the first ever joint military internet. Germany and the Netherlands agreed to build TEN, the first ever joint military internet. ViceLeaker Android spyware targets users in the Middle East. China installs a surveillance app on tourists phones while crossing in the Xinjiang.

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APT trends report Q1 2021

SecureList

During routine monitoring of detections for FinFisher spyware tools, we discovered traces that point to recent FinFly Web deployments. Although Lyceum still prefers taking advantage of DNS tunneling, it appears to have replaced the previously documented.NET payload with a new C++ backdoor and a PowerShell script that serve the same purpose.

Malware 142
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APT trends report Q3 2021

SecureList

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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