Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Russia successfully disconnected from the internet. Russia’s government announced that it has successfully concluded a series of tests for its RuNet intranet aimed at country disconnection from the Internet. One of them is checking the integrity and security of the Internet as a result of external negative influences.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

Syrian-linked APT group SEA recently used COVID-19-themed lures as part of a long-running surveillance campaign, security researchers warn. 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).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

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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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

Since the internet, especially the "internet of things," is expected to rely heavily on 5G infrastructure, potential Chinese infiltration is a serious national security threat. But keeping untrusted companies like Huawei out of Western infrastructure isn't enough to secure 5G.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This post seeks to document the extent of those attacks, and traces the origins of this overwhelmingly successful cyber espionage campaign back to a cascading series of breaches at key Internet infrastructure providers. federal civilian agencies to secure the login credentials for their Internet domain records. That changed on Jan.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It went into effect on 13 th August 2020 and addresses the new prohibition on the use of banned telecommunications equipment and services, while also clarifying the ban from 2019 on buying such equipment. the telecommunications and video surveillance services or equipment they work with.?? government and industry. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2022

. “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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

At the end of January, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country. ” reported the Associated Press.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Telecommunications firms like to talk up all the great things that so-called 5G cellular networks will bring to smart phones. But what new kinds of Internet of Things use cases may become possible? Telecommunications firms like to talk up all the great things that so-called 5G cellular networks will bring to smart phones.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The new “ Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020 ” report describes attacks on various industries and critical infrastructure facilities, as well as campaigns aimed at destabilization of the Internet in certain countries. Internet destabilization at state level. The telecommunications sector: Are providers ready for 5G?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Russian government asks all Internet service providers and VPN providers operating in the country to provide information about their users. “The company responded with a categorical refusal to Roskomnadzor’s repeated requests for information to be included in the register of information dissemination organizers on the Internet.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 27, 2020

So there's a huge amount of very detailed data about people's browsing behavior sitting out there on various servers on the Internet. Telecommunications metadata 2. The US Senate voted to renew the USA Freedom Act which authorizes a variety of forms of national surveillance. What are the contents of this "very detailed data?"

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The cyber-offense ecosystem still appears to be shaken by the sudden demise of NSO Group; at the same time, these activities indicate to us that we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to commercial-grade mobile surveillance tooling.

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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.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

One is the issue of insecure data privacy, which can occur due to improper data scrubbing, data storage, and data sharing on the internet, which can expose individuals to malicious misuse of their personal data. It focuses on emotion, behavior, age, voice, and gender recognition to provide surveillance and security solutions.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country. ” states the p ress release p ublished by the Russian watchdog.

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Notice Bored

APRIL 20, 2022

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.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

The adoption of emerging technologies like 5G will fuel the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) that’s often built with only a few security controls and therefore creating a larger attack surface that enterprises have to deal with., At the same time, consumers are deeply concerned with how their data is collected and used.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

» Related Stories From China with Love: New York Firm sold millions in PRC Surveillance Gear to US Government, Military Episode 165: Oh, Canada! We're joined by Terry Dunlap the co-founder of ReFirm Labs to talk about why software supply chain risks. Read the whole entry. » Terry Dunlap is the co-founder of ReFirm Labs.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The victims we observed were all high-profile Tunisian organizations, such as telecommunications or aviation companies. The group’s operations were exposed in 2018, showing that it was conducting surveillance attacks against individuals in the Middle East. Domestic Kitten is a threat group mainly known for its mobile backdoors.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Abnormal Security Cloud email security 2019 Private Sqreen Application security 2019 Acquired: Datadog Demisto SOAR 2018 Acquired by PAN Skyhigh Cloud security 2012 Acquired: McAfee OpenDNS Internet security 2009 Acquired: Cisco Palo Alto Networks Cloud and network security 2006 NYSE: PANW. Insight Partners.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While the newer actors are filling the skills gap quickly, the most advanced parties are scaling to obtain global surveillance capabilities through technological supremacy. A list of verticals that should be protected from foreign investments was introduced in French law: energy, water distribution, transportation, health, telecommunications.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Although electronic surveillance programs authorized by EO 12333 generally target foreign intelligence from foreign targets, its permissive targeting standards allow for the substantial collection of Americans’ communications containing little to no foreign intelligence value.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

.” Sources involved in the investigation said UNC5537 has focused on hacking into telecommunications companies around the world. Since 2020, Binns has filed a flood of lawsuits naming various federal law enforcement officers and agencies — including the FBI , the CIA , and the U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2024

China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon has breached telecommunications companies in dozens of countries, US govt warns. President Biden’s deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger said that China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon has breached telecommunications companies in dozens of countries. reads the joint advisory.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2021

Denmark’s foreign secret service allowed the US NSA to spy on European politicians through a Danish telecommunications hub. “The NSA is said to have accessed text messages and the phone conversations of a number of prominent individuals by tapping into Danish internet cables in co-operation with the FE.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2024

CISA adds ScienceLogic SL1 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog VMware failed to fully address vCenter Server RCE flaw CVE-2024-38812 Cisco states that data published on cybercrime forum was taken from public-facing DevHub environment Internet Archive was breached twice in a month Unknown threat actors exploit Roundcube Webmail flaw (..)

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A surveillance photo of Connor Riley Moucka, a.k.a. Many of these messages were attempts to recruit people who could be hired to deploy a piece of malware that enslaved host machines in an Internet of Things (IoT) botnet. Another suspect in the Snowflake hacks, John Erin Binns , is an American who is currently incarcerated in Turkey.

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