Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Iran-linked APT group Domestic Kitten, also tracked as APT-C-50, has been conducting widespread surveillance targeting over 1,000 individuals. Both groups have conducted long-running cyber-attacks and intrusive surveillance campaigns, which target both individuals’ mobile devices and personal computers.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms. What did Verkada do wrong?

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Hurd Wayne Hurd , VP of Sales, Luminys Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) advancements will provide more accurate threat detection that allows security teams to focus on real risks, minimizing false alarms. Security teams will need to address the unique risks posed using LLMs in mission critical environments.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

NSO Group reverse engineered WhatsApp’s software and developed its own software and servers to send messages to victims via the WhatsApp service that contained malware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

Researchers from Nozomi Networks discovered a critical vulnerability that can be exploited to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-32941 can be exploited by an attacker to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke, a provider of home and business security solutions.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

Experts uncovered an enterprise-grade surveillance malware dubbed Hermit used to target individuals in Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy since 2019. Lookout Threat Lab researchers uncovered enterprise-grade Android surveillance spyware, named Hermit, used by the government of Kazakhstan to track individuals within the country.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have become integral to modern military operations, particularly for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions. The trend of malicious targeting in the drone manufacturing segment increased during Q3-Q4 2024 and continued into Q1 2025.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In what may come as a surprise, subscription-based face search engine PimEyes seems to have realized that their service can be used for nefarious purposes. Parents have used the search engine to find pictures of their children that they were unaware off, for example.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2021

The hackers managed their intrusion from servers inside the United States, exploiting legal prohibitions on the National Security Agency from engaging in domestic surveillance and eluding cyberdefenses deployed by the Department of Homeland Security.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 28, 2025

The phishing game has evolved into synthetic sabotage a hybrid form of social engineering powered by AI that can personalize, localize, and scale attacks with unnerving precision. At the heart of many of these kits are large language models (LLMs) trained or fine-tuned specifically for social engineering tasks.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 23, 2024

This requires an intimacy greater than your search engine, email provider, cloud storage system, or phone. And the incentives of surveillance capitalism are just too much to resist. I wrote about this AI trust problem last year: One of the promises of generative AI is a personal digital assistant.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

An ad for RedTorch’s “Cheetah” counter-surveillance tech. ” “Extensive experience from Telecom industry as executive and engineer,” reads Mr. Grey’s profile at RedTorch. The Guy Fawkes mask/Anonymous threat featured prominently and often on RedTorch’s website.

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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

JUNE 22, 2021

The new attack is able to bypass facial recognition services, applications, and APIs including the most advanced online facial recognition search engine on the planet, called PimEyes, according to the Washington Post. The main feature is that it combines various approaches together for maximum efficiency. ATTACK DEMO. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

And if you read his 3,000-word post carefully, Zuckerberg says nothing about changing Facebook's surveillance capitalism business model. Moreover, Facebook should share any innovative engineering solutions with the world, much as it currently shares its data center engineering. Better security for collected user data.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

Despite warnings from cybersecurity academics, whistleblowers or former NSA and CIA agents, the general public shows no animosity toward metadata surveillance. Metadata can be used to reverse-engineer and pinpoint identity quite easily. Recently, researchers from Greece and the US examined location metadata.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The car you buy in the United States is different from the same model sold in Mexico , because the local environmental laws are not the same and manufacturers optimize engines based on where the product will be sold. Automobile manufacturers sell their cars worldwide, but they are customized for local markets. But software is different.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

At the airport, I trusted ticket agents and maintenance engineers and everyone else who keeps airlines operating. We are both under constant surveillance and are competing for star rankings. Surveillance is the business model of the Internet. I trusted thousands of other drivers on the road not to ram my car on the way.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Three high-severity flaws exist in Cisco's Webex video conferencing system, Cisco’s Video Surveillance 8000 Series IP Cameras and Identity Services Engine.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2025

APT42 focuses on highly targeted spear-phishing and social engineering techniques, its operations broadly fall into three categories, credential harvesting, surveillance operations, and malware deployment. “The threat actors directed victims who engaged with them to fake Gmail login pages or Google Meet invitations.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 15, 2022

A former software engineer for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been convicted for his role in one of the largest thefts of classified information in history. Joshua Schulte was hit with 13 charges in June of 2018 after he leaked nearly 9,000 documents from an isolated network within the CIA.

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Engineering Surveillance Software Mobile 98

Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2020

The legal dispute between Facebook and NSO group continues even after the Israeli surveillance firm filed a motion to dismiss the case earlier this month. The surveillance implant used by the NSO group used an exploit for a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , in the WhatsApp VoIP feature.

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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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Schneier on Security

MARCH 19, 2024

2: Surveillance Social media’s reliance on advertising as the primary way to monetize websites led to personalization, which led to ever-increasing surveillance. This requires more intimacy than you have with your search engine, email provider, cloud storage system, or phone.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Because from where I sit, Recall is a feature nobody asked for that turns Windows into a bug (of the surveillance variety). Those include Windows 10 systems that installed the monthly security update for Windows released in March 2024, or other updates released until August 2024.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Muthukrishnan Access control, surveillance , and testing are the three major components that comprise the physical security of a system. Surveillance includes monitoring and detecting intruders into the network. Access control is the restricting of access to a system. There are several types of access control methods used.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. It’s a healthy thing that a captain of industry can see this. Advanced use cases.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2025

Notifications & Social Engineering: Posts fake push notifications to trick users. Camera Access: Starts front camera streaming for potential identity theft or surveillance. “Already observed targeting banks in Spain and Turkey and popular cryptocurrency wallets, Crocodilus is clearly engineered to go after high-value assets.”

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Banking Mobile Identity Theft Malware 68

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The facial recognition software and surveillance company was known for scraping images of people from social networking sites, particularly Facebook, YouTube, Venmo, and other websites. Also in 2022, a company called PimEyes was accused of “ surveillance and stalking on a scale previously unimaginable.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The CVE-2022-3723 flaw is a type confusion issue that resides in the Chrome V8 Javascript engine. At this time is is unclear if the attacks exploiting the CVE-2022-3723 flaws are part of the operation detailed by Avast and associated with the Candiru ‘s surveillance activity. The flaw has been reported by Jan Vojt?šek,

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Engineering Surveillance Hacking Information Security 140

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

If we assume a determined attacker will be able to infect a victim’s device through social engineering or other techniques, I would argue that patching these is even more important than patching some other Remote Code execution vulnerabilities.” If you can block them here you have the potential to significantly limit their damage.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2025

Private search engines generally avoid connecting users to their searches. Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Last month, engineers at Google published a very curious privacy bug in Apple's Safari web browser. If there's any lesson here, it's that privacy is hard -- and that privacy engineering is even harder. Some details : ITP detects and blocks tracking on the web. Apple fixed this vulnerability in December, a month before Google published.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

Numerous other open-source LLMs are under development, with a community of thousands of engineers and scientists. This is due not only to AI advances, but to the business model of the internet—surveillance capitalism—which produces troves of data about all of us, available for purchase from data brokers.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 24, 2025

Cameras could be used to gather surveillance data by someone planning a physical intrusion, it pointed out. Finding exposed feeds, whether via Bitsight’s own scanning engine or via publicly accessible ones like Shodan.io, is like shooting fish in a barrel. Indeed, Bitsight did something similar in 2023.

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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 13, 2021

FreakOut botnet (aka Necro, N3Cr0m0rPh) creators have updated the malware and added a PoC exploit for Visual Tools DVR, an electronic video recorder utilized in surveillance video systems, capable of supporting up to 16 cameras and transmitting live video to two monitors.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Police all over the nation are using the infamous Stingray device to surveil suspects. For example, Boston police (despite Stingray use being effectively illegal in Massachusetts). The post Boston Cops buy Stingray Spy Stuff—Spending Secret Budget appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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