Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The accused, 36-year-old John “Armada” Revesz , has maintained that Orcus is a legitimate “ R emote A dministration T ool” aimed at helping system administrators remotely manage their computers, and that he’s not responsible for how licensed customers use his product. An advertisement for Orcus RAT.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 9, 2024

It is a critical tool in various fields, including system administration, development, and cybersecurity. In the Triangulation campaign , discovered by Kaspersky last year, attackers compromised the integrity of system software and hardware by exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities to load advanced spyware onto devices.

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Internet Internet Risk Social Engineering 113

Malwarebytes

APRIL 20, 2023

image courtesy of Citizen Lab This is a huge deal since it shows how useful Lockdown Mode can be, even against exploits developed by one of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware producers. System administrators can install and remove configuration profiles on that device.

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Spyware Mobile System Administration Risk 98

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 Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) service is a built-in component of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Trojans/Spyware. This technique lets attackers deliver malicious code to thousands of systems through a vector that security measures routinely ignore?—?a Kaseya provides Virtual System Administration (VSA) software to MSPs, who in turn offer cloud services to multiple customers. Ransomware. Logic bombs. a trusted vendor.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

While front line defense mechanisms like firewalls, anti-theft, anti-spyware, etc. Do the storage/system administrators also own and manage the encryption keys used for data-at-rest encryption? How is the separation of duties that is ensured during the encryption process implemented in individual applications?

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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. The previous discussion covered a number of private companies that have filled the void left by NSO and have made a business of providing offensive software to their customers.

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