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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Surveillance Mobile Spyware Telecommunications 119

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

” The three activity sets included a campaign against the Philippine government between March and May 2022; a campaign against telecommunications and business service providers in South Asia in April 2022; and a campaign against organizations in Belarus and Russia in May 2022.

Firewall 88

Firewall Internet Internet Telecommunications 88

Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

The experts found 71 malicious Android applications that were connecting to the same C2 server having an IP address linked to the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE). STE was used by the notorious Syria-linked APT group tracked as Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) to host its C2 infrastructure. ” continues the expert.

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Surveillance Telecommunications Mobile Advertising 95

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

During routine monitoring of detections for FinFisher spyware tools, we discovered traces that point to recent FinFly Web deployments. The victims we observed were all high-profile Tunisian organizations, such as telecommunications or aviation companies.

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Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 138

SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Third place was taken by the Noon spyware (5.19%), whose 32-bit relatives (1.71%) moved down to ninth. Global internet portals (20.68%) lead the list of organizations whose brands were most often used by cybercriminals as bait. Online stores (20.63%) are in second place by a whisker. Phishing in messengers.

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Phishing Scams Accountability Computers and Electronics 86

SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

Some of the scam sites discovered promised to reimburse a certain sum to the customers of a major international telecommunications company. In 2023, phishing pages mimicking global internet portals (16.46%) reclaimed the top spot by number of attempted redirects. Refunds were offered not only under the guise of government agencies.

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Phishing Scams Cryptocurrency Accountability 95

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From a different angle, reporting from The Intercept revealed mobile surveillance capabilities available to Iran for the purposes of domestic investigations that leverage direct access to (and cooperation of) local telecommunication companies. In the past years, we have seen vulnerability researchers increasingly focus on emailing software.

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Firmware Surveillance Mobile Telecommunications 106