Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2020

Google announced that starting from August it will update its policies to reject ads proposed by organizations offering surveillance software. The move aims at fighting the advertising of any form of surveillance. The tech giant announced that the update will be effective starting from August 11, 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Lookout researchers discovered two long-running surveillance campaigns targeting the ethnic minority Uyghurs. Researchers from mobile security firm Lookout uncovered two long-running surveillance campaigns targeting the Uyghurs minority. List of installed packages. Call logs and geocoded location associated with the call. .”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

Court ordered surveillance firm NSO Group to hand over the source code for its Pegasus spyware and other products to Meta. Judge ordered the surveillance firm to hand over the source code for its Pegasus spyware and other products to the social network giant. from April 29, 2018, to May 10, 2020).

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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

MARCH 5, 2024

The surveillance software was also used to spy on U.S. Surveillance software was misused by foreign actors in attacks aimed at dissidents and journalists around the world. Predator spyware is known for its extensive data-stealing and surveillance capabilities. The policy underscores the U.S.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

A new shocking revelation comes from the disputed from NSO Group and Facebook, NSO CEO claims Facebook tried to buy an Apple spying software in 2017. In October 2019, WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

million to settle a legal dispute for selling vulnerable software to the US government. Back in 2008, a whistle-blower identifies a vulnerability in Cisco video surveillance software, but the tech giant continued to sell the software to US agencies until July 2013. Cisco is going to pay $8.6 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The latest report published by Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG), titled “ Buying Spying, an in-depth report with our insights into Commercial Surveillance Vendors (CSVs )”, warns of the rise of commercial spyware vendors and the risks to free speech, the free press, and the open internet. ” concludes Google.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Nexa Technologies was indicted for complicity in acts of torture, the French firm is accused of having sold surveillance equipment to the Egypt. Nexa Technologies offers a range of solutions for homeland security, including surveillance solutions. The software was allegedly used to repress opponents of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2024

Daigle discovered the commercial surveillance software on the hotel check-in systems while investigating consumer-grade spyware (aka stalkerware ). pcTattletale is a software program designed for monitoring and recording the activities of computer users. “ PCTattletale is a simple stalkerware app.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2023

According to rumors, the Polish special services are using surveillance software to spy on government opponents. In June 2022, the controversial Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group told the European Union lawmakers that its Pegasus spyware was used by at least five countries in the region.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. Everything has one: every program, every piece of equipment, every piece of software. I started doubting my own security procedures. But I had a more personal involvement as well.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2022

At the end of July, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) researchers linked a threat group known as Knotweed to an Austrian surveillance firm named DSIRF, known for using multiple Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 6, 2022

As a result, The majority of businesses (55 percent) are using some sort of a tool to monitor for insider threats; including data leak prevention (DLP) software (54 percent), user behavior analytics (UBA) software (50 percent), and employee monitoring and surveillance (47 percent). Yes, they are cheap to apply.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Apple has filed suit to ban the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group and parent company Q Cyber Technologies from using its product and services. federal court for illegally targeting its customers with the surveillance spyware Pegasus. That needs to change,” said Craig Federighi , Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

Security researchers at Cisco Talos and the Citizen Lab have shared technical details about a commercial Android spyware named Predator that is sold by the surveillance firm Intellexa (formerly known as Cytrox). The attacks aimed at installing the surveillance spyware Predator, developed by the North Macedonian firm Cytrox.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Experts from Amnesty International uncovered a surveillance campaign that targeted Egyptian civil society organizations with a new version of FinSpy spyware. The mobile version of the surveillance software in the first stage of the infection leverages the exploits to get root access. ” reads the Amnesty’s report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

Pegasus Project investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware. Pegasus Project is the name of a large-scale investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets that revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The attackers used an exploit chain named Kismet that was part of the arsenal of the controversial Pegasus spyware that is sold by the surveillance firm NSO Group. Citizen Lab has already published several reports unmasking operations that involved the use of the NSO’s surveillance software. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A joint investigation conducted by Access Now and the Citizen Lab revealed that the journalist, who is at odds with the Russian government, was infected with the surveillance software. However, there is no public evidence that the Russian government is a client of the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2023

The Importance of Trust While user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) software as described above is effective against insider threats in contrast with traditional threat detection, it comes with its own thorny complications as well. There are, however, a few guiding principles that should be of help.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2022

63 of them were targeted or infected with the Pegasus spyware, and four others with the spyware developed by another surveillance firm named Candiru. The researchers reported that at least two of them were targeted or infected with both surveillance software.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

“ This type of research activity is part of the Checkmarx Security Research Team’s ongoing efforts to drive the necessary changes in software security practices among vendors that manufacture consumer-based smartphones and IoT devices, while bringing more security awareness amid the consumers who purchase and use them. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Stealth Soldier is surveillance software that allows operators to spy on the victims and exfiltrate collected data. “Stealth Soldier malware is an undocumented backdoor that primarily operates surveillance functions such as file exfiltration, screen and microphone recording, keystroke logging and stealing browser information.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The two issues are: CVE-2023-6345 Google Skia Integer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2023-49103 ownCloud graphapi Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVE-2023-6345 – The CVE-2023-5217 is a high-severity integer overflow in Skia. ownCloud is an open-source software platform designed for file synchronization and sharing.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These exploits can be included in surveillance software developed by surveillance firms like the NSO Group , which relied on it to deploy their Pegasus spyware. The experts reported that these flaws can be exploited to bypass mitigations implemented by Apple to neutralize zero-click exploits like FORCEDENTRY.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Pegasus is probably the most popular surveillance software on the market, it has been developed by the Israeli NSO Group. Many other surveillance firms develop spyware that are every day abused in dragnet surveillance and target journalists, dissidents, and opponents of totalitarian regimes.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2024

A User Activity Monitoring (UAM) tool is a software solution designed to track and record the activities and interactions of users on computers or networks for security, compliance, or management purposes. UAM systems operate by installing a software agent on each employee's computer.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Physical security is the protection of personnel and IT infrastructure (such as hardware, software, and data) from physical actions and events that could cause severe damage to an organization. Related: Good to know about IoT Physical security is often a second thought when it comes to information security.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The Royal group began reconnaissance activity in April 2023, and the analysis of system log data dates the beginning of the surveillance operations on April 7, 2023. Royal was then able to traverse the internal City infrastructure during the surveillance period using legitimate 3rd party remote management tools.”

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SC Magazine

APRIL 9, 2021

A screenshot from a music video of hte Evan Greer song, “Surveillance Capitalism,” which tackles the dangers of commercial surveillance technology. Sometimes fighting the excesses of the creeping surveillance economy is done through position papers, coalition building and lawsuits. Our concern is not ‘Hey patch this up.’

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2019

The head of London’s Serpentine Galleries resigned on Tuesday following a Guardian report about her links to the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group. Pegasus is a perfect tool for surveillance, it is able to steal any kind of data from smartphones and use them to spy on the surrounding environment through their camera and microphone.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The issue made the headline under another CVEs because it was actively exploited to deploy surveillance spyware, and it was tracked separately as CVE-2023-41064 and CVE-2023-4863. . “ An attacker can trigger the vulnerability using a specially crafted WebP lossless file and achieve arbitrary code execution.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

ransomware builder used by multiple threat actors Cisco fixes 3 high-severity DoS flaws in NX-OS and FXOS software Cybercrime Unpacking the MOVEit Breach: Statistics and Analysis Cl0p Ups The Ante With Massive MOVEit Transfer Supply-Chain Exploit FBI, Partners Dismantle Qakbot Infrastructure in Multinational Cyber Takedown U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This malicious software puts users’ privacy at risk, it could be used to spy on users and unmasking of their identities. The experts pointed out that also users that leave the country are exposed to surveillance, through the pre-installed software. EU) Android OS distributions from the same OS developers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

QNAP addressed multiple vulnerabilities, including a critical remote execution flaw affecting the QVR video surveillance solution. QNAP QVR is a video surveillance solution of the Taiwanese vendor which is hosted on its NAS devices and doesn’t require any extra software. ” reads the advisory published by QNAP.

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