Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Stealth Soldier is surveillance software that allows operators to spy on the victims and exfiltrate collected data. The newest version of the malware (Version 9) was likely employed in February 2023, while the oldest version discovered by the researchers (Version 6) dates back to October 2022. ” Check Point concludes.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Super Bowl stadium and its vendors will connect everything from digital ticketing and payments to lighting, scoreboards, and surveillance cameras—exponentially expanding the attack surface. Potential risks span from malware infections to denial-of-service attacks to theft of sensitive data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The malware already hit more than a thousand South Korean victims. Unlike other surveillance software that attempts to exploit vulnerabilities on the device, PhoneSpy disguised itself as a harmless application with purposes ranging from learning Yoga to watching TV and videos, or browsing photos. Zimperium concludes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Being Used to Phish So Many of Us? Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections Under Siege: Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs Why is.US

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. April 17 – Gmail blocked 18 Million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures in a week. April 18 – Trickbot is the most prolific malware operation using COVID-19 themed lures.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

The phishing attacks began in February 2023, the IT giant reported. Remcos is a legitimate remote monitoring and surveillance software developed by the company BreakingSecurity. “What we have observed is that the link in the phishing email points to Amazon Web Services click tracking service at awstrack[.]me.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Experts uncovered a new threat actor, tracked as Balikbayan Foxes, that is impersonating the Philippine government to spread malware. . Both Remcos and NanoCore are used for information gathering, data exfiltration, surveillance, and control of the victims’ computers. . ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs. Uber scam lures victims with alert from a real Uber number Teaching cybersecurity skills to special needs children with Alana Robinson: Lock and Code S02E18.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

COMB breach: 3.2B COMB breach: 3.2B COMB breach: 3.2B If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Modified Elephant is a hacking group that offers Remote Access Trojans (RATs) to those interested in surveillance crimes. It has offered tools to many agencies that have the potential to deliver malware, siphon data to conduct phishing crimes via key loggers. Then how to keep such cyber crimes at bay?

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

"The aim of such attacks can be variable like financial fraud, credential harvesting, data exfiltration, surveillance, or damage to the country’s/organization’s reputation.". And don't forget a plethora of malware methods targeting Arab countries, including the Top 5: Qakbot, Emotet, Formbook, Remcos, and QuadAgent.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Google rolled out emergency fixes to address actively exploited Chrome zero-day Samsung discloses a second data breach this year The Prynt Stealer malware contains a secret backdoor. users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2020

The attack described by Microsoft begun with a phishing message that was opened by an internal employee, the malware infected its systems and made lateral movements infected other systems in the same network. The incident also affected the surveillance camera network of the company along with the finance department.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2020

supports the Secure Boot Fake Cisco ‘Critical Update used in phishing campaign to steal WebEx credentials Hackers accessed staff mailboxes at Italian bank Monte dei Paschi SFO discloses data breach following the hack of 2 of its websites. hacked, data of 600k users available for sale Updated: Italian email provider Email.it

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2021

They may give tip-offs, or send files over, and most commonly, do some work in anti-phishing. For example, a popular past time is filling up phish pages with bogus data. The post FBI shuts down malware on hundreds of Exchange servers, opens Pandora’s box appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 22, 2021

While well intentioned, you may have inadvertently created a security breach for the recipient or opened your family up to unwanted surveillance. Did you give or receive a toy or new parental control or security app for the holidays? The Internet of security breaches The Internet of Things (IoT) is not just for your smart.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

Internet-connected smart devices, like surveillance cams, smart light bulbs, smart locks and doorbells and baby monitors, are notoriously fraught with vulnerabilities, posing grave security risks. Android malware. This opened up their devices to malware posing as Zoom installers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

SecurityAffairs awarded as Best European Personal Cybersecurity Blog 2022 Crooks are using RIG Exploit Kit to push Dridex instead of Raccoon stealer Flagstar Bank discloses a data breach that impacted 1.5

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Malwarebytes

MAY 24, 2022

An unknown Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group has targeted Russian government entities with at least four separate spear phishing campaigns since late February, 2022. In this campaign the threat actor packaged its custom malware in a tar file called Patch_Log4j.tar.gz , a fake fix for December’s high-profile Log4j vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

“Amnesty Tech’s Security Lab found technical evidence in phishing emails sent to two prominent Vietnamese human rights defenders, one of whom lives in Germany, and a Vietnamese NGO based in the Philippines, showing that Ocean Lotus is responsible for the attacks between 2018 and November 2020.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 4, 2022

There are rootkits, Trojans, worms, viruses, ransomware, phishing, identity theft, and social engineering to worry about. Content blockers help reduce ads, Trojans, phishing, and other undesirable content that an antivirus product alone may not stop. That risk still exists, but we all face many other threats today too. Security tips.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The PowerShortShell stealer is also used for Telegram surveillance and gathering system information from infected systems. “The adversary might be tied to Iran’s Islamic regime since the Telegram surveillance usage is typical of Iran’s threat actors like Infy, Ferocious Kitten, and Rampant Kitten. fn= hxxp://hr.dedyn.io/upload2.aspx

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

At that time, the researchers tracked the sources IP in Pakistan, the attacks were part of a wider operation that relies on multi vector such as watering hole websites and phishing email campaigns delivering custom RATs dubbed Crimson and Peppy. These RATs are capable of exfiltrate information, take screenshot, and record webcam streams.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2024

Russia-linked APT28 used the HeadLace malware and credential-harvesting web pages in attacks against networks across Europe. The experts observed the APT deploying Headlace in three distinct phases from April to December 2023, respectively, using phishing, compromised internet services, and living off the land binaries.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The first-ever large-scale malware attacks on IoT devices were recorded back in 2008, and their number has only been growing ever since. A successful password cracking enables hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a device and inject malware. Statista portal predicts their number will exceed 29 billion by 2030. Tested, tried.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2019

During the last month, our Threat Intelligence surveillance team spotted increasing evidence of an operation intensification against the Banking sector. The piece of malware under analysis were downloaded from “bullettruth[.com/out[.exe”, Figure 3: Malware Signature by SLON LTD. Figure 4: Malware suspicious entropy level.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based non-profit organisation that seeks to ensure the freedom of speech of journalists, recently announced that the Pegasus Project surveillance solution by the Israeli NSO Group selected 50,000 phone numbers for surveillance by its customers following a data leak. .

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Mobile Surveillance Architecture Government 61

Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2019

Houston County Schools in Alabama delayed the school years opening due to a malware attack. Fraudster stole $870,000 from 2 US universities with spear-phishing mails. GermanWiper, a data-wiping malware that is targeting Germany. The US Gov is testing high-altitude balloons for surveillance.

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Data breaches Adware Small Business Advertising 52

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The hackers left no evidence of how they broke in – no phishing expeditions, no malware.” They circumvented the NSA, which gathers intelligence overseas, but is prohibited from surveilling U.S. ” Smith also revealed that the core of the malicious code employed in the attack was composed of 4,032 lines. “U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Back to September 2013, Belgacom (now Proximus), the largest telecommunications company in Belgium and primarily state-owned, announced its IT infrastructure had suffered a malware-based attack. The investigation revealed that the malware-based attack was powered by GCHQ and code-named Operation Socialist. ” wrote The Intercept.

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Hacking Spyware Telecommunications Malware 83

Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

The Chafer APT group has distributed data stealer malware since at least mid-2014, it was focused on surveillance operations and the tracking of individuals. The cyber espionage campaigns were carried out by Iran-linked Chafer APT (also known as APT39 or Remix Kitten). ” continues the report.

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Government Social Engineering Telecommunications Hacking 115

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Internal Revenue Service warns taxpayers of a malware campaign. Nemty Ransomware, a new malware appears in the threat landscape. Experts uncovered an advanced phishing campaign delivering the Quasar RAT. Kaspersky found malware in popular CamScanner app. Lumber Liquidators hit by malware attack that took down its network.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

ZestAI’s Quest to make Artificial Intelligence Explainable Episode 155: Disinformation is a Cyber Weapon and APTs warm to Mobile Malware From China with Love: New York Firm sold millions in PRC Surveillance Gear to US Government, Military. . » Related Stories Episode 166: But Why, AI?

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Artificial Intelligence Surveillance Mobile Government 40

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The PyInstaller module for Windows contains a script named “Guard” Interestingly, this malware was developed for both Windows and macOS operating systems. The attackers obtain initial access to a system by sending a spear-phishing email to the victim containing a Dropbox download link.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The campaign leverages Exodus-themed phishing messages using an attachment named “Exodus-MacOS-1.64.1-update.zip.” The malware poses itself as a fake Exodus update, it is using the subject “Update 1.64.1 “From the website, the developer described their software as a cloud-based surveillance and remote spy tool.

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