Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2020

Google wants to halt the use of ads for technology that could allow monitoring a person’s online activity (i.e. “In August 2020, the Google Ads Enabling Dishonest Behavior policy will be updated to clarify restrictions on advertising for spyware and surveillance technology.”reads ”reads the post published by Google.

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Surveillance Spyware Advertising Marketing 113

Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2018

A new sophisticated version of the AZORult Spyware was spotted in the wild, it was involved in a large email campaign on July 18. Malware researchers at Proofpoint spotted a new version of the AZORult Spyware in the wild, it was involved in a large email campaign on July 18, just 24 hours it appeared in cybercrime forums on the Dark Web.

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Spyware Cryptocurrency Passwords Malware 52

Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2019

Security researchers have found a new government spyware, tracked as Exodus, that was distributed through the Google Play Store. The researchers argue that the surveillance operation might have targeted also innocent victims because the spyware was poorly developed, a circumstance that is confirmed makes the software illegal.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

China is currently the country with the largest number of Android mobile devices, but a recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Edinburgh and the Trinity College of Dublin revealed that top-of-the-line Android devices sold in the country are shipped with spyware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

In the last weeks, a new Android surveillance malware dubbed Exodus made the headlines, now expert found the iOS version of the government spyware. Exodus for Android is a three-stage malware, the first is a small dropper that collected basic device information (i.e. IMEI, phone number).

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

The list of targeted apps includes cryptocurrency wallet applications (i.e. Coinbase, BitPay, and Coinbase), and banks (i.e. The malware targets 226 applications to steal account credentials, including Gmail, Google Play services, Uber, Amazon, Netflix and Outlook. Santander, Barclays, Lloyds, ING, and Wells Fargo).

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

In the latest campaign uncovered by Kaspersky, the APT group, used a modular framework dubbed CloudWizard that supports spyware capabilities, including taking screenshots, microphone recording, harvesting Gmail inboxes, and keylogging. The archive contained two files, a decoy document (i.e.

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Malware Spyware Encryption Phishing 88

Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2019

Threat actors used at least five unique iPhone exploit chains that allowed them to remotely jailbreak a device and deliver spyware. The spyware implant was also able to steal the database files from popular end-to-end encryption apps like Whatsapp, Telegram, and iMessage. credentials, authentication tokens, and certificates).

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Spyware Hacking Advertising Encryption 96

Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2022

In order to hijack the shutdown event, the researchers abuse some components, such as the InCallService system application, the SpringBoard which is responsible for the majority of the UI interaction, and BackBoard, which supports SpringBoard to handle some tasks related to hardware events (i.e. and button presses).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 2, 2022

Few media resources from Spain report the incident as an act of an insider, i.e. an issue conducted by people close to the PM’s chair or those working for opposition. Spain’s Criminal Court, Audiencia Nacional, has taken the incident seriously and has launched a probe to track down the culprits behind the incidents.

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Malware Surveillance Software Government 107

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

To prevent Windows Defender Antivirus from blocking the ransomware process, it makes several Windows Registry changes to disable many Windows Defender features (i.e. tamper protection, anti-spyware capabilities, real-time behavioral monitoring, real-time on-access (file) protection, and real-time process scanning).

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Insurance Ransomware Cyber Insurance Malware 90

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Kaspersky experts found a similar sample on Google Play, it implements high levels of encryption, furthermore, the malicious code was able to download and execute additional malicious payloads that would be suitable to the specific device environment (i.e Android version, installed apps). .

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Malware Advertising Spyware Marketing 113

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Since S@T Browser implements a series of STK instructions (i.e. “The main Simjacker attack involves an SMS containing a specific type of spyware-like code being sent to a mobile phone, which then instructs the SIM Card within the phone to ‘take over’ the mobile phone to retrieve and perform sensitive commands.”

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Hacking Mobile Spyware Manufacturing 111

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. Maintain offline (i.e., The top malware strains in 2021 included remote access Trojans (RATs), banking Trojans, information stealers, and ransomware. Enforce MFA.

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Malware Banking Penetration Testing Healthcare 79

CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 22, 2021

Chine Foreign Ministry has issued a public statement condemning the distribution and usage of Pegasus Spyware surveillance software by various countries. The post China officially condemns Pegasus spyware surveillance and accuses US appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Surveillance Spyware Software Government 145

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In 2016, researchers from non-profit organization CitizenLab published a report that describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried by the Stealth Falcon. The transfer resumes automatically after being interrupted for any reason (i.e.

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Malware Advertising System Administration Spyware 84

SecureWorld News

APRIL 11, 2023

When hackers trick people into using their fake Wi-Fi networks and power stations, they can compromise devices, install malware/spyware and steal data. It's probably more likely to take place in areas that have persons of interest frequenting, i.e. politicians or intelligence agency workers.

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Computers and Electronics Malware IoT Spyware 82

CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 19, 2021

The post Apple iPhones to get protection against Pegasus Mobile Spyware appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Spyware Mobile Media Malware 145

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

While front line defense mechanisms like firewalls, anti-theft, anti-spyware, etc. As a best practice, encryption keys should always be decoupled i.e. separately managed from the encrypted data. 1 Data Protection Best Practices. Below are a few pertinent questions that organisations should ask during the decoupling exercise: 1.

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Encryption Ransomware Backups System Administration 62

Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2022

The spyware developed by Israeli surveillance firm Candiru exploited recently fixed CVE-2022-2294 Chrome zero-day in attacks on journalists. After getting a foothold on the victim’s machine, the DevilsTongue spyware attempts to elevate its privileges by exploiting another zero-day exploit. stylishblock[.]com). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Spyware Surveillance Antivirus Malware 96

SecureList

MARCH 25, 2021

There was a rise in the percentage of ICS computers on which threats distributed over the internet and email, and spyware and miners were blocked. Spyware (+1.4 Malicious objects from the internet – web resources involved in the distribution or management of malware (+2.5 Typical threats distributed by email (+1.2

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Ransomware Spyware Internet Internet 84

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

The flaw in both S@T and WIB Browsers can be exploited to perform several malicious tasks by sending an SMS containing a spyware-like code. language, radio type, battery level, etc.). Below the attack scenario described by the expert: (1) Attacker sends a malicious OTA SMS to the victim phone number.

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Hacking Mobile Risk Advertising 97

SecureList

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

May was the quietest month, when just over 10 million attachments were detected, i.e., 7.02% of the annual total. In contrast, October turned out to be the busiest month, when we recorded over 15 million attacks blocked by the Mail Anti-Virus, i.e., 10.24% of the annual total. Malware families.

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Phishing Scams Accountability Banking 65

Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

Surveillance tools can be used to record audio, including phone calls, track the phone’s location, and access and retrieve all content on a phone (i.e. In November, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) sanctioned four companies for the development of spyware or the sale of hacking tools used by nation-state actors.

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Surveillance Mobile Spyware Malware 136

Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2019

Despite its dimensions, this is the only apk that shows a spyware behavior. Most operations are performed by “A” class, but there are other classes involved in specific tasks, i.e. the “C” class is used to trace the inbound and outbound phone calls. Third sample’s detection rate. So, many anti-malwares detects it. Part of “C” class.

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Spyware Mobile Malware Phishing 85

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Kaspersky has been tracking deployments of this spyware since 2011. When the backdoored application launches, it runs as normal, i.e. the inserted obfuscated code does not impact the application workflow. Returns process names of the current process tree (i.e. This version was detected and researched several times up to 2018.

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Encryption Malware Spyware Architecture 141

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Israeli Defence Force (IDF) announced it has thwarted an attempt by the Hamas militant group to hack soldiers’ mobile devices by posing as attractive women on social media and instant messaging apps ( i.e. Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram). Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Social Engineering Media Spyware Advertising 68

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A virtual private network (VPN) takes a public internet connection (i.e. While some email accounts include protections, others may require additional layers of security, including spam filtering, ransomware protection, spyware protection, and encryption. Also Read: The Best Wi-Fi 6 Routers Secure and Fast Enough for Business.

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Internet Internet Software Antivirus 130

Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

It is allowed to host: ordinary sites, doorway pages, satellites, codecs, adware, tds, warez, pharma, spyware, exploits, zeus, IRC, etc. Here’s a snippet from one of Yalishanda’s advertisements to a cybercrime forum in 2011, when he was running a bulletproof service under the domain real-hosting[.]biz:

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Cybercrime Phishing Banking Malware 174

Troy Hunt

APRIL 15, 2019

Not to mention the various spyware apps often installed on kids' phones to track them which then subsequently leak their data all over the internet. A bunch of the spyware breaches I referred to occurred because the developers literally published all the collected data to the internet for the world to see. mSpy leaked data.

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Spyware Passwords Manufacturing Marketing 279

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In 2022, the GReAT team tracked several threat actors leveraging SilentBreak’s toolset as well as a commercial Android spyware we named MagicKarakurt. While deploying it at scale requires political and technological power available to few, it is likely that by now, Quantum-like tools would be implemented on the local level (i.e.,

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Firmware Surveillance Mobile Telecommunications 106