Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. Specifically, it was fetching account icons and defaulted to opening password reset pages over HTTP. Once bypassed, threat actors had high-level access and could view information such as user passwords and other stored credentials.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

After using passwords obtained from one of the countless breaches as a lure to trick victims into paying, the “Hello pervert” sextortion scammers have recently introduced two new pressure tactics: Name-dropping the infamous Pegasus spyware and adding pictures of your home environment. The scammer says they know “your password.”

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Scams Spyware Passwords Password Management 141

Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online. The company that sells the parental control spyware app Family Orbit has been hacked, the pictures of hundreds of monitored children were left online only protected by a password.

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Spyware Hacking Data breaches Passwords 76

Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2025

CISA adds Aviatrix Controllers vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog ESET detailed a flaw that could allow a bypass of the Secure Boot in UEFI systems Russia-linked APT Star Blizzard targets WhatsApp accounts Prominent US law firm Wolf Haldenstein disclosed a data breach Clop Ransomware exploits Cleo File Transfer flaw: dozens (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The vulnerability was discovered by Clément Lecigne from Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-09-25, a circumstance that suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. _clem1 discovered another ITW 0-day in use by a commercial surveillance vendor: CVE-2023-5217.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. Google's reCAPTCHA is not only useless, it's also basically spyware Techspot This study demonstrates Google's reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 are flawed and don't actually keep out bots. Tips for finding old accounts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. COMB breach: 3.2B COMB breach: 3.2B

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Phishing Spyware Data breaches Ransomware 114

Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

US DoJ announced to have shut down the Russian RSOCKS Botnet MaliBot Android Banking Trojan targets Spain and Italy Chinese DriftingCloud APT exploited Sophos Firewall Zero-Day before it was fixed Experts link Hermit spyware to Italian surveillance firm RCS Lab and a front company A Microsoft 365 feature can ransom files on SharePoint and OneDriveCould (..)

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Spyware DNS Ransomware Surveillance 108

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

Experts spotted a rare Linux Desktop spyware dubbed EvilGnome. Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Slack resetting passwords for roughly 1% of its users. Experts detailed new StrongPity cyberespionage campaigns. Scraping the TOR for rare contents. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2023

A common example of this is surveillance. We normalize the use of surveilling and tracking young people through "parentware" or spyware (software which allows someone to see what someone else is doing on their device) and apps which enable the tracking of someone's location. Use good passwords.

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Surveillance Technology Accountability Spyware 98

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Pegasus spyware is a phone surveillance solution that enables customers to remotely exploit and monitor devices. The company sells its surveillance technology to governments around the world. And watchdog groups say its products are often found to be used in surveillance abuses. Spyware attacks becoming harder to detect.

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Spyware Surveillance Hacking Media 54

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

Cybercriminals often use malware to gain access to a computer or mobile device to deploy viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, spyware, and rootkits. NanoCore NanoCore is used for stealing victims' information, including passwords and emails. AZORult's developers are constantly updating its capabilities.

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Malware Banking Penetration Testing Healthcare 98

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

From a technical perspective, spyware—defined as software running on the device that surveils and tracks you—is not much of a thing, because of Apple’s restrictions on what apps can do, plus the fact that you can’t hide an app on iOS. iCloud email can be read, as well as notes, reminders, files on iCloud Drive, and more.

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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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Data breaches Malware Mobile Spyware 98

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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Phishing Surveillance Malware Backups 75

Hacker's King

MAY 20, 2023

By combining something you know(like a password) with something you have(such as a verification code), 2FA adds an extra layer of protection to your online accounts. To counter this, it’s crucial to use strong, unique passwords and enable account lockouts after multiple failed login attempts. You may also like: Is Every Hacker Is Same?

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Authentication Social Engineering Spyware Engineering 52

Google Security

MAY 15, 2024

Safer Logins: Your screen will be hidden when you enter credentials like usernames, passwords and credit card numbers during a screen-share session. Apps that post OTPs in notifications will be automatically protected from remote viewers when you’re screen sharing, helping thwart attempts to steal sensitive data.

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Scams Threat Detection Social Engineering Surveillance 78

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. Due to this focus, items primarily affecting enterprises or large organizations may not be included, even if they are widespread or "popular" stories. this is certainly a news item worth paying attention to.

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SecureList

JUNE 3, 2024

This RAT allows an attacker to surveil and harvest sensitive data from a target computer. Cracked applications are one of the easiest ways for attackers to get malware onto people’s computers: to elevate their privileges, they only need to ask for the password, which usually arouses no suspicion during software installation.

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Banking Malware Computers and Electronics Mobile 120

SecureList

MARCH 13, 2024

In most countries around the world, use of stalkerware is currently not prohibited, but installing a surveillance application on another person’s smartphone without their consent is illegal and punishable. Nevertheless, iPhone users fearing surveillance should always keep a close eye on their device.

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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. Drone hacking!

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SecureList

MARCH 8, 2023

Other types of monitoring or spyware apps that fall outside of the Coalition’s definition are not included in the report statistics. iPhone users fearing surveillance should always keep an eye on their device. Change passwords for all of your accounts periodically and don’t share them with anyone.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Recent events have demonstrated very clearly just how persistent and wide-spread the Pegasus spyware is. The exploit chain based on these vulnerabilities was capable of compromising devices without any interaction from the victim and were reportedly used by the NSO Group to deliver its infamous Pegasus spyware.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have claimed that threat actors have been using catfishing to lure Israeli soldiers into installing spyware. This year, the use of surveillance software developed by private vendors has come under the spotlight, as discussed above. And now, we turn our attention to the future.

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Mobile Surveillance Ransomware Government 145

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From ransomware attacks locking businesses out of their data until they pay potentially millions of dollars to spyware tracking users’ every move through their infected device, the effects of malware can be devastating. Types of spyware are often classified based on what information they’re gathering. Need More Intel on Rootkits?

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Malwarebytes

JULY 22, 2021

Pegasus is spyware, and spyware is not made to respect privacy. According to NSO Group, its main spyware program is a beneficial tool for investigating and preventing terrorist attacks and maintaining the safety of the public. And between 2016 and 2018, more than 1,000 IP addresses were found to be associated with it.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission in the United States, banned an app called SpyPhone, and its CEO Scott Zuckerman, from operating in the surveillance industry. Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc.

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Technology Software Surveillance Media 52

Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

Soldier Charged in AT&T Hack Searched Can Hacking Be Treason Group-IB contributes to joint operation of Royal Thai Police and Singapore Police Force leading to arrest of cybercriminal behind more than 90 data leaks worldwide UAC-0173 against the Notary Office of Ukraine (CERT-UA#13738) North Korea Responsible for $1.5

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Cybercrime Hacking Ransomware Cryptocurrency 63

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Treasury issued fresh sanctions against entities linked to the Intellexa Consortium Broadcom fixed Critical VMware vCenter Server flaw CVE-2024-38812 Remote attack on pagers used by Hezbollah caused 9 deaths and thousands of injuries Chinese man charged for spear-phishing against NASA and US Government Data Breach Qilin ransomware attack on Synnovis (..)

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