Schneier on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

Its spyware is also said to be equipped with a keylogger, which means every keystroke made on an infected device — including passwords, search queries and messages sent via encrypted messaging apps — can be tracked and monitored.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Experts from Amnesty International uncovered a surveillance campaign that targeted Egyptian civil society organizations with a new version of FinSpy spyware. The mobile version of the surveillance software in the first stage of the infection leverages the exploits to get root access. SecurityAffairs – hacking, FinSpy).

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But what if, instead, somebody hacked into the system and just switched the labels for “gun” and “turtle” or swapped “stop” and “45 mi/h”? Like everything else, these systems will be hacked through vulnerabilities in those more conventional parts of the system. This is bulk surveillance and can easily operate on this massive scale.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Nexa Technologies was indicted for complicity in acts of torture, the French firm is accused of having sold surveillance equipment to the Egypt. Nexa Technologies offers a range of solutions for homeland security, including surveillance solutions. “In short, Cerebro can suck up any data that is not encrypted.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2022

Elon Musk Wants End-to-End Encryption for Twitter Direct Messages: Too soon or Too Late? Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal, so no one can spy on or hack your messages,” Musk said in a tweet. E2EE encrypts data between a sender and receiver so that no third party can access it. brooke.crothers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Encrypted messaging app Signal denied claims of an alleged zero-day flaw in its platform after a responsible investigation. The popular encrypted messaging app Signal denied claims of an alleged zero-day vulnerability in its platform. “PSA: we have seen the vague viral reports alleging a Signal 0-day vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2021

WhatsApp addressed two security vulnerabilities in its app for Android that could have been exploited to remotely hack the victim’s device. or greater on the Android platform, as previous versions are vulnerable to the aforementioned bugs and may allow for remote user surveillance. SecurityAffairs – hacking, WhatsApp).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A joint investigation conducted by Access Now and the Citizen Lab revealed that the journalist, who is at odds with the Russian government, was infected with the surveillance software. However, there is no public evidence that the Russian government is a client of the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group. ” states Access Now.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The Royal group began reconnaissance activity in April 2023, and the analysis of system log data dates the beginning of the surveillance operations on April 7, 2023. Royal was then able to traverse the internal City infrastructure during the surveillance period using legitimate 3rd party remote management tools.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Apple has filed suit to ban the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group and parent company Q Cyber Technologies from using its product and services. federal court for illegally targeting its customers with the surveillance spyware Pegasus. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Pegasus). ” reads the announcement published by Apple.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

CheckPoint uncovered an extensive surveillance operation conducted by Iranian APT actor and tracked as Domestic Kitten aimed at specific groups of individuals. ” This means that the Domestic Kitten surveillance operation had collateral victims whose details were leaked from contact lists or conversations with the targets.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Criminals may use hijacked drones for illegal surveillance, smuggling, or even as weapons. Countermeasures: To prevent drone signal hijacking, drone manufacturers and operators can implement encryption and authentication mechanisms for RF communication. It offers strong encryption and is considered secure for most applications.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

European Parliament votes to tighten up rules for the sale and export of surveillance and encryption technology. The new rules oblige European companies to apply for government licenses to export surveillance solutions demonstrating that the sale doesn’t pose a risk to human rights. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2022

Like other ransomware gangs, Lorenz operators also implement double-extortion model by stealing data before encrypting it and threatening them if the victim doesn’t pay the ransom. Hensoldt AG focuses on sensor technologies for protection and surveillance missions in the defence, security and aerospace sectors. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2021

Last year, the group published a detailed analysis on how the Chinese government has improved its surveillance system to detect and block the popular circumvention tools Shadowsocks and its variants. Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Tails is a security and privacy-oriented Linux distribution, it is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship. SecurityAffairs – hacking, domain name system). ” reads the advisory. ” reads the alert published by project maintainers. To nominate, please visit:?. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Earlier this year, 36 journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera had their personal phones hacked. Their phones were hacked through the use of an exploit chain known as KISMET, an invisible zero-click exploit in iMessage. and could hack the Apple iPhone 11.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2022

.” Since January, DeadBolt ransomware operators are targeting QNAP NAS devices worldwide , its operators claim the availability of a zero-day exploit that allows them to encrypt the content of the infected systems. Once encrypted the content of the device, the ransomware appends. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NAS).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online. The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, the pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online only protected by a password.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

” The iOS exploit chain used a framework based on Ironsquirrel to encrypt exploits delivered to the visitor’s browser. SecurityAffairs – hacking, watering hole). . “As is our policy, we quickly reported this 0-day to the vendor (Apple) and a patch was released to protect users from these attacks.”

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 11, 2021

As awareness of corporate surveillance and criminal hacking has grown, so have concerns about personal privacy. Also, encrypting and decrypting data takes time. However, there is a benefit to using a next-gen VPN with modern encryption compared to older VPNs. VPNs are for geeks and power users.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The group was involved in cyber espionage campaigns aimed at new generation weapons and in surveillance activities on dissidents and other civilian groups. It is designed to load malicious DLLs and encrypt payloads.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Budworm APT). ” reads the report published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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Identity IQ

APRIL 22, 2021

What is Encryption? A VPN is a service that hides your IP address and encrypts your data to ensure your online privacy. Today, VPNs are a popular tool used to help stay protected from data theft, surveillance or commercial targeting. The VPN encrypts your data as it travels across the internet. What is Encryption?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2021

Researchers spotted a sophisticated Android spyware that implements exfiltration capabilities and surveillance features, including recording audio and phone calls. The malware exfiltrates data from the infected devices in the form of an encrypted ZIP file. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Android spyware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2021

US Navy ship Facebook page hijacked to stream video games GnuPG fixes a problem with Let’s Encrypt certificate chain validation Discord scammers lure victims with promise of free Nitro subscriptions Making better cybersecurity training : Q&A with Malwarebytes expert Kelsey Prichard At long last, Microsoft is disabling Excel 4.0

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Bahrain government and groups linked to them—such as LULU , a known operator of Pegasus, and others like them who are associated with a separate government—were tagged as culprits of the surveillance activity. It could also hack the iPhone 11, the latest model of that time. No real protection in sight?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). To nominate, please visit:?. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sounds like excessive surveillance? Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, used by more than a billion people. It’s the SANS Holiday Hack Challenge. There was an interesting data protection angle to the Microsoft survey covered in the story above.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Former contractor sentenced to 10 months in prison for hacking airline Jet2. Ryuk Ransomware evolution avoid encrypting Linux folders. Thai Officials confirmed the hack of prison surveillance cameras and the video broadcast. 173 Million Zynga accounts were impacted in the September hack.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

They’ll take more manual steps to encrypt servers, exfiltrate data – or do both. And then, instead of encrypting one or two or ten machines, they’ll encrypt everything.” Next, they encrypted servers in the most painful way possible, thus motivating companies to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a decryption key.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2019

Crooks used rare Steganography technique to hack fully patched websites in Latin America. Jessica Alba ‘s Twitter account hacked, it posted racist and homophobic messages. Android devices could be hacked by playing a video due to CVE-2019-2107 flaw. Hacking avionics systems through the CAN bus. Once again thank you!

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

Bad news for citizens of Kazakhstan, the government is beginning to intercept all the encrypted traffic, and to do it, it is forcing them to install a certificate. The Kazakhstan government is beginning to intercept all the encrypted traffic and to do it is forcing users in the country to install a certificate. ” states Tele2.

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