Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Back to September 2013, Belgacom (now Proximus), the largest telecommunications company in Belgium and primarily state-owned, announced its IT infrastructure had suffered a malware-based attack. Specifically, these are IP addresses of computers where the spyware software communicated from Belgacom.

Hacking 84

Hacking Spyware Telecommunications Malware 84

Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

The experts found 71 malicious Android applications that were connecting to the same C2 server having an IP address linked to the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE). .” The malicious apps employed by Syria-linked hackers have names such as “Covid19”, “Telegram Covid_19”, “Android Telegram”, and “Threema Arabic,” among others.

Surveillance 93

Surveillance Telecommunications Mobile Advertising 93

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

” The three activity sets included a campaign against the Philippine government between March and May 2022; a campaign against telecommunications and business service providers in South Asia in April 2022; and a campaign against organizations in Belarus and Russia in May 2022.

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Firewall Internet Internet Telecommunications 100

Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

31, 2019, Rezvesz said his company recently was the subject of an international search warrant executed jointly by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). “In In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar.

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Advertising Malware Marketing Software 215

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 24, 2020

Instead, they only found a suspicious video file sent to Bezos on May 1, 2018 that "appears to be an Arabic language promotional film about telecommunications." Edwards said this would indeed get them everything they would need to search for persistent spyware like the kind created and sold by the NSO Group.

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Hacking Spyware Backups Encryption 312

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

According to Jay McBain, an analyst at Forrester Research, spending on IT and telecommunications will be worth about $7 trillion by 2030. It unites spyware, malware, and virus protection with a policy and reporting engine. The next few years will see a surge in channel spending. The channel is destined to land at least a third of that.

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Backups Firewall DDOS Antivirus 138

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

During routine monitoring of detections for FinFisher spyware tools, we discovered traces that point to recent FinFly Web deployments. The victims we observed were all high-profile Tunisian organizations, such as telecommunications or aviation companies.

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Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 139

SecureList

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Third place was taken by the Noon spyware (5.19%), whose 32-bit relatives (1.71%) moved down to ninth. Financial services (1.81%), IT companies (1.72%) and telecommunication companies (1.45%) round out the ranking. Phishing in messengers.

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Phishing Scams Accountability Computers and Electronics 87

SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

Some of the scam sites discovered promised to reimburse a certain sum to the customers of a major international telecommunications company. Refunds were offered not only under the guise of government agencies. To receive the money, a small fee had to be paid in advance, which resulted in the victim’s payment card being compromised.

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Phishing Scams Cryptocurrency Accountability 95

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From a different angle, reporting from The Intercept revealed mobile surveillance capabilities available to Iran for the purposes of domestic investigations that leverage direct access to (and cooperation of) local telecommunication companies.

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Firmware Surveillance Mobile Telecommunications 106

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This politician became the target of a previously undiscovered “zero-day” attack aimed at infecting his phone with spyware. It determined that the injection point was situated within the connection between two Egyptian telecommunication providers.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities Media Malware 102