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Meta Warns of 8 Spyware Firms Targeting iOS, Android, and Windows Devices

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operating in the surveillance-for-hire industry. The findings are part of its Adversarial Threat Report for the fourth quarter of 2023. Their various malware included The spyware targeted iOS, Android, and Windows devices.

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Privacy Roundup: Week 9 of Year 2025

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Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office ArsTechnica RTO continues to pick up steam. In pursuit of "more productivity," some employers are leaning heavily into surveillance tech.

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The Role and Benefits of AI in Cybersecurity

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Natural language processing (NLP): NLP allows AI to analyze and interpret human language, making it useful for scanning security logs, analyzing threat reports, and detecting suspicious activities in emails or messages. AI can easily anticipate cyberattacks, identify irregularities, and react to threats more quickly than human experts.

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How Ransomware Gangs Weaponize Employee Burnout to Breach Corporate Defenses

SecureWorld News

Threat reports go unread. Timing the kill: how ransomware gangs study organizational weakness Modern threat actors operate more like intelligence agencies than chaotic hackers. They don't escalate strange logins, unexpected network activity, or gaps in video surveillance monitoring because fatigue clouds judgment.

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Bitdefender 2020 Consumer Threat Landscape Report – Attackers Increasingly Target the Human Layer

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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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The Growing Presence (and Security Risks) of IoT

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Avast explains that one of the biggest IoT security threats is the use of vulnerable devices to access organizations’ network and thus may gain access to sensitive information. Vulnerable devices could be used to spread malware within the enterprise, used for corporate espionage, surveillance of personnel, or plan whaling phishing campaigns.

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APT trends report Q1 2021

SecureList

In our initial report on Sunburst , we examined the method used by the malware to communicate with its C2 (command-and-control) server and the protocol used to upgrade victims for further exploitation. This campaign made use of a previously unknown malware family we dubbed FourteenHi.

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