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Security Affairs newsletter Round 525 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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local government networks U.S. Silent Ransom Group targeting law firms, the FBI warns Leader of Qakbot cybercrime network indicted in U.S. crackdown Operation RapTor led to the arrest of 270 dark web vendors and buyers Chinese threat actors exploited Trimble Cityworks flaw to breach U.S.

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China’s Olympics App Is Horribly Insecure

Schneier on Security

The app also includes a censorship keyword list, which, while presently inactive, targets a variety of political topics including domestic issues such as Xinjiang and Tibet as well as references to Chinese government agencies. The US government has already advised athletes to leave their personal phones and laptops home and bring burners.

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On Chinese "Spy Trains"

Schneier on Security

That's why there is so much worry about Chinese-made equipment for the new 5G wireless networks. It's also why the United States has blocked the cybersecurity company Kaspersky from selling its Russian-made antivirus products to US government agencies.

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5G Security

Schneier on Security

Because the companies that make the equipment are subservient to the Chinese government, they could be forced to include backdoors in the hardware or software to give Beijing remote access. Both criminal attacks and government cyber-operations will become more common and more damaging. Eventually, Washington will have do so something.

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Russian spies are attempting to tap transatlantic undersea cables

Security Affairs

Attacks against undersea cables are not a novelty, in 2014 The Register published information on a secret British spy base located at Seeb on the northern coast of Oman, a strategic position that allows the British Government to tap to various undersea cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian/Arabian Gulf.

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China using AI to develop robots that can hide in sea launch bombs and cyber attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

Privacy advocates across the world say that such mass surveillance programs do more bad than good as they make the populace get a feeling that their government never trusts them. The plan was to use machine learning tools and learn about the citizen activities taking place in front of the cameras in an automated way.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 241

Security Affairs

CVE-2019-2234 flaws in Android Camera Apps exposed millions of users surveillance. Ransomware infected systems at state government of Louisiana. T-Mobile discloses data breach affecting prepaid wireless customers. Belorussian authorities blocked ProtonMail following a wave of bomb threats. Personal and social information of 1.2B