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Ferocious Kitten: 6 years of covert surveillance in Iran

SecureList

These formats suggest that the threat actor is interested in Office documents, encryption keys, password manager files and image files.The upload is performed by using the same POST request as the one used by the ‘uploadsf’ command. argument: path to file to upload. – List files and repositories. com/ddd/classes.dex.

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5 common VPN myths busted

Malwarebytes

As awareness of corporate surveillance and criminal hacking has grown, so have concerns about personal privacy. I don’t need a mobile VPN. Some people think they don’t need a mobile VPN because their carrier looks after their security, or has a lot to say about privacy. VPNs will slow down my internet connection.

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UN approves Russia-Cina sponsored resolution on new cybercrime convention

Security Affairs

Many governments worldwide persecute their internal oppositions charging them with criminal activities and use strict online surveillance to track them. The surveillance software developed by NSO Group was used by government organizations worldwide to spy on human rights groups , activists, journalists, lawyers, and dissidents.

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Q&A: Researchers find evidence of emerging market for stolen, spoofed machine identities

The Last Watchdog

Related: Why government encryption backdoors should never be normalized. They will require an exploding number of APIs to connect each microservice, to each software container, to each orchestration tool, on up the software stack, to each new mobile app delivering each of our daily digital experiences.

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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

Krebs on Security

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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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.

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The state of stalkerware in 2020

SecureList

In total, 53,870 of our mobile users were affected globally by stalkerware in 2020. The software, known as stalkerware, is commercially available to everyone with access to the internet. To calculate our statistics, we review the consumer line of Kaspersky’s mobile security solutions. All received data is anonymized.

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