eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Apple continues to be haunted by spyware developed by an Israeli security firm that hostile governments used to hack into Apple devices to spy on journalists, activists and world leaders (see Apple Security Under Scrutiny Amid Fallout from NSO Spyware Scandal ). Spyware Vulnerability. and iPadOS 14.8

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered several exploit chains targeting Android, iOS, and Chrome to install commercial spyware. The exploit chains were used to install commercial spyware and malicious apps on targets’ devices. The experts pointed out that both campaigns were limited and highly targeted.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

CISA has added nine flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, including bugs exploited by commercial spyware on mobile devices. The exploits were used to install commercial spyware and malicious apps on targets’ devices. The threat actors behind the attacks used both zero-day and n-day exploits in their exploits.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2024

Judge ordered NSO Group to hand over the Pegasus spyware code to WhatsApp Cybercrime BlackCat Ransomware Affiliate TTPs American Express credit cards EXPOSED in third-party vendor data breach – account numbers and names among details accessed in hack LockBit 3.0’S

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A threat actor, tracked as APT C-23, is using new powerful Android spyware in attacks aimed at targets in the Middle East. The APT C-23 cyberespionage group (also known as GnatSpy, FrozenCell, or VAMP) continues to target entities in the Middle East with enhanced Android spyware masqueraded as seemingly harmless app updates (i.e.

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Hackology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The emergence of Kamran spyware, targeting users of a regional news website, has raised concerns among cybersecurity experts. Distributed through a possible watering-hole attack on the Hunza News website , the spyware prompts users to grant permissions, allowing access to sensitive data.

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 22, 2023

Apple thwarts NSO’s spyware, the rise of a GPT-4 black market, Russia targets Starlink internet connections, and more.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Reports that the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was used by governments to spy on Apple iPhones used by journalists, activists, government officials and business executives is becoming a global controversy for NSO, Apple and a number of governments at the center of the scandal. The impact of the burgeoning scandal continues to ripple.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

Researchers at Amnesty International collected evidence that a Moroccan journalist was targeted with network injection attacks using NSO Group ‘s spyware. This attack scenario sees attackers monitoring and manipulating the Internet traffic of the target. reads the analysis published by Amnesty International in October.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Also in the data set were mSpy user logs — including the browser and Internet address information of people visiting the mSpy Web site. In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that mSpy had been hacked and its customer data posted to the Dark Web. mSpy pledged to redouble its security efforts in the wake of the 2015 breach.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2024

Crooks manipulate GitHub’s search results to distribute malware BatBadBut flaw allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows Roku disclosed a new security breach impacting 576,000 accounts LastPass employee targeted via an audio deepfake call TA547 targets German organizations with Rhadamanthys malware CISA adds D-Link multiple (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the Italian spyware vendor RCS Labs was supported by ISPs to spy on users. This week, 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

JUNE 28, 2019

Many experts linked the Regin malware to the Five Eyes alliance , they found alleged references to the super spyware in a number of presentations leaked by Edward Snowden and according to malware researchers, it has been used in targeted attacks against government agencies in the EU and the Belgian telecoms company Belgacom.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

Players hacked during the matches of Apex Legends Global Series. Government’s Antitrust Case Against Apple Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ramadan ) Is it a Russia’s weapon?

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming. Surveillance has become the business model of the internet, and there’s no reasonable way for us to opt out of it. Spying is another matter.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2022

Intellexa is an Israeli surveillance firm founded by Israeli entrepreneur Tal Dilian, it offers surveillance and hacking solution to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. SecurityAffairs – hacking, surveillance). Leaked documents show the surveillance firm Intellexa offering exploits for iOS and Android devices for $8 Million.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2023

Multiple DDoS botnets were observed targeting Zyxel devices CISA warns of attacks against Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway Devices Experts believe North Korea behind JumpCloud supply chain attack Nice Suzuki, sport: shame dealer left your data up for grabs Experts attribute WyrmSpy and DragonEgg spyware to the Chinese APT41 group ALPHV/BlackCat and (..)

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2023

On Monday, the US Supreme Court denied the NSO Group's petition for a writ of certiorari , a request to the high court to review its case, signaling that Meta's WhatsApp can go ahead with its case against the Israeli-based company behind the Pegasus spyware. The court didn't explain why it refused to hear the NSO's appeal.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2019

Scranos is a powerful cross-platform rootkit-enabled spyware discovered while investigating malware posing as legitimate software like video players, drivers and even anti-virus products. The post Scranos – A Cross Platform, Rootkit-Enabled Spyware rapidly spreading appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In the OnionPoison campaign, threat actors shared a link to a malicious Tor installer posting it on a popular Chinese-language YouTube channel providing info on the anonymity on the internet. The experts also discovered that the libraries bundled with the malicious Tor Browser is infected with spyware. “The file freebl3.dll

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 30, 2021

The technical man also insists on practicing this technique once or twice a week to stop being hacked. The practice can also help in slowing down of zero click exploits that allow a hacker to take a device with the help of zero click exploits even though the user did not interact with any app or internet.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9 Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In 2022, we published an article about how photographs of children taken by a stalkerware-type app were found exposed on the internet because of poor cybersecurity practices by the app vendor. The stalkerware-type app involved, TheTruthSpy, has shown once again that the way in which it handles captured data shows no respect to its customers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2022

Reacting to the news on the government spyware like NSO Group Pegasus and Android affecting Hermit malware, the Mobile Giant of Korea said that it offers a firm commitment to safeguarding the personal and sensitive information of its users.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

NSO Group’s descent into Internet pariah status continues. Its Pegasus spyware was used against nine US State Department employees. We don’t know which NSO Group customer trained the spyware on the US. ”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Researchers are warning of a new variant of recently disclosed SimJacker attack, dubbed WIBattack , that could expose millions of mobile phones to remote hacking. WIBattack is a new variant of the recently discovered Simjacker attack method that could expose millions of mobile phones to remote hacking. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. 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. Spyware attacks becoming harder to detect.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Even strong security can’t prevent an account from being hacked if account credentials are stolen in a phishing attack, one of the most common causes of identity theft. The internet is littered with unsafe websites that host viruses, malware, ransomware and other online threats. Protecting vulnerable users from internet threats.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

“These are remote code execution vulnerabilities in the Windows Internet Key Exchange protocol that could be triggered if an attacker sends a specially crafted IP packet,” wrote Jon Munshaw and Asheer Malhotra. though they are “less likely” to be exploited, according to Microsoft.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Consider that most of us spend more time navigating the Internet on our laptops and smartphones than we do behind the wheel of a car. The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Credential stuffing campaigns have become part of the fabric of the Internet.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the Elasticsearch instance, researchers stumbled upon 16 indices named “hacked[_id]” that are likely Indicators of Compromise (IoC). Source: Cybernews The exposed phone numbers can be exploited for spam, malware and spyware attacks, SIM swapping, and the discovery of user accounts on platforms like WhatsApp, Signal, and others.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2021

. “Today, we’re sharing actions we took against a group of hackers in China known in the security industry as Earth Empusa or Evil Eye — to disrupt their ability to use their infrastructure to abuse our platform, distribute malware and hack people’s accounts across the internet.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Facebook).

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The trojan horse can be hidden in software or attachments that, if downloaded, install different spyware and viruses on your device. This spyware and viruses can cause many problems on your device and compromise personal details. Internet service providers also help prevent several spam emails. However, they are not foolproof.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

One of the most common mistakes made by small businesses is that they adopt all new IT equipment and computers but leave their internet and Wi-Fi susceptible to external threats. Make sure all devices and computers at your office have installed anti-virus, and anti-spyware as these are connected to the network, offering a gateway to hackers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2022

The experts pointed out that the phone remains fully functional and is still connected to the Internet despite that all physical feedback have been disabled, this means that a spyware can still spy on the users. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NoReboot). concludes the experts. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

The main module performs the following operations: Validate network connection – Upon execution, the script waits for an active internet connection by making HTTP POST requests to google.com with the parameter hi=hi. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Log4Shell). ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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