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Google TAG argues surveillance firm RCS Labs was helped by ISPs to infect mobile users

Security Affairs

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the Italian surveillance firm RCS Labs was helped by some Internet service providers (ISPs) in Italy and Kazakhstan to infect Android and iOS users with their spyware. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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3.5m IP cameras exposed, with US in the lead

Security Affairs

The number of internet-facing cameras in the world is growing exponentially. Businesses and homeowners increasingly rely on internet protocol (IP) cameras for surveillance. New research by Cybernews shows an exponential rise in the uptake of internet-facing cameras. Surge in internet-facing cameras.

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Turkish Sea Turtle APT targets Dutch IT and Telecom firms

Security Affairs

The group targets government entities, Kurdish (political) groups like PKK, telecommunication, ISPs, IT-service providers (including security companies), NGO, and Media & Entertainment sectors; Over the years, the group enhanced its evasion capabilities. Reduce the number of systems that can be reached over internet using SSH.

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Russian spies are attempting to tap transatlantic undersea cables

Security Affairs

Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. Despite the Cable & Wireless bought by Vodafone in July 2012, the Nigella surveillance access point remained active as of April 2013. Source [link].

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A flaw in Dahua IP Cameras allows full take over of the devices

Security Affairs

. “We’re publishing the details of a new vulnerability (tracked under CVE-2022-30563) affecting the implementation of the Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) WS-UsernameToken authentication mechanism in some IP cameras developed by Dahua, a very popular manufacturer of IP-based surveillance solutions.”

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Information risk and security for professional services

Notice Bored

Professional services are information-centric: information is the work product , the purpose, the key deliverable. Through assignments, jobs, projects or tasks, professional services clients and providers exchange, generate and utilize information. Guess whose interests they are most likely to protect!

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The Russian Government blocked ProtonMail and ProtonVPN

Security Affairs

The Russian government asks all Internet service providers and VPN providers operating in the country to provide information about their users. Information about the administrators of the mailboxes used to send threats has not been p rovided.” ” continues the Russian Watchdog.