Security Boulevard

AUGUST 28, 2022

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

References The Norwegian government is now on HIBP (that's now the 6th gov, the 7th will be announced in the coming days) Banks are communicating in precisely the fashion they're warning their customers about (is it a phish, or banks comms? Mass surveillance is a reality. A VPN can't solve this issue, but it's a great first step.

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Graham Cluley

DECEMBER 7, 2022

And university students revolt over under-the-belt surveillance. An AI chatbot is causing a stir - both impressing and terrifying users in equal measure. A security researcher discovers that a "smart" cam that doesn't use the internet is err. using the internet.

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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. Large venues increasingly utilize sophisticated networks to conduct commerce, manage operations, engage fans, and gather data.

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Penetration Testing Surveillance Cyber Risk Malware 107

Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2023

Stealth Soldier is surveillance software that allows operators to spy on the victims and exfiltrate collected data. “Stealth Soldier malware is an undocumented backdoor that primarily operates surveillance functions such as file exfiltration, screen and microphone recording, keystroke logging and stealing browser information.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2021

Security experts from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax , against Colombian government institutions and private companies. Malware researchers from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax , against Colombian entities exclusively. ” continues the report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

According to ‘The Global Times’, Northwestern Polytechnical University based in Shaanxi Province of China was hit by an email phishing attack, resulting in data steal of information related to students and teachers studying and teaching in the Educational Institute.

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Hacking Surveillance Education Cyber Attacks 121

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 10, 2021

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. .” The malware already hit more than a thousand South Korean victims. Zimperium concludes.

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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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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Surveillance gives cybercriminals another potential point of entry to see or steal your data. Slow communication can also leave workers vulnerable to phishing attacks, where cybercriminals pose as legitimate authorities. Since phishing makes up 30% of all attacks against small businesses, this is a pressing concern.

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Internet Internet Government Risk 223

Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

Here’s an experiment being run by undergraduate computer science students everywhere: Ask ChatGPT to generate phishing emails, and test whether these are better at persuading victims to respond or click on the link than the usual spam. There will also be a change in the sophistication of these attacks.

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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.". The report lists examples of malicious emails that use the soccer event as the initial attack vector.

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Surveillance Phishing Malware Cybersecurity 76

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. Below a list of attacks detected this week.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 5, 2020

The agency known for its own questionable surveillance activity advised how mobile users can limit others’ ability to track where they are.

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Surveillance Mobile Phishing Government 102

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

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

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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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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.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Both Remcos and NanoCore are used for information gathering, data exfiltration, surveillance, and control of the victims’ computers. . The threat actors carried out spear-phishing attacks using spoofed email addresses. The researchers noticed that that the sender emails were reused for a long period of time.

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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

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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Rampant Kitten has been active at least since 2014 and was involved in ongoing surveillance operations against Iranian minorities, anti-regime organizations, and resistance movements. Security researchers from Check Point discovered an Android malware, developed by an Iran-linked group dubbed Rampant Kitten, that is able to bypass 2FA.

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Malware Phishing Accountability Advertising 104

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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Hacking Advertising Surveillance Phishing 87

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

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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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

There will be no #DigitalIndia until and unless government of India stops their surveillance projects & make their systems secure.”. According to The Intercept, the publication that first reported the WikiLeaks data, the surveillance was alleged to start no later than 2011 and there was no indication that the eavesdropping had stopped.

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Cybersecurity Surveillance Cyber Attacks Government 52

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

SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2019

This story is about how crooks increasingly are abusing third-party financial aggregation services like Mint , Plaid , Yodlee , YNAB and others to surveil and drain consumer accounts online. “If the account is active, hackers then can go to the next stage for 2FA phishing or social engineering, or linking the accounts with another.”

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Banking Passwords Risk Password Management 248

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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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. While interesting, this shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 28, 2020

The latter measure is especially important, as data-in-motion encryption helps shield an organization’s data, video, voice and metadata from eavesdropping, surveillance and other interception attempts. Key Management. Encryption means nothing if a threat actor gains control of an organization’s cryptographic keys.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

These messages run the usual range of phishing and fraudulent transaction attempts. Turned down due to a lack of detail and guidelines which “may give rise to a situation of dangerous state intrusion and surveillance threatening many constitutionally protected rights”, it’s now back on the table.

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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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