Surveillance Related Topics 
Schneier on Security
JULY 3, 2025
Once you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it: A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone records and use Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency’s informants in 2018, according to a new US justice department report.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 20, 2025
In the thread, called the “Southern Oregon Analyst Group,” some members talked about making fake social media profiles to surveil people, and others discussed being excited to learn and try new surveillance techniques.
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Security Affairs
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Chinese law enforcement uses the mobile surveillance tool EagleMsgSpy to gather data from Android devices, as detailed by Lookout. Researchers at the Lookout Threat Lab discovered a surveillance tool, dubbed EagleMsgSpy, used by Chinese law enforcement to spy on mobile devices. ” reads the report published by Lookout.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 25, 2025
Other Surveillance Tech Deployed Against The Same Italian Cluster. We also note 2024 warnings sent by Meta to several individuals in the same organizational cluster, including a Paragon victim, suggesting the need for further scrutiny into other surveillance technology deployed against these individuals.
Security Boulevard
JULY 21, 2025
Security gaps, coupled with savvy cybercriminals, lend urgency to mitigating the potential for exploitation posed by surveillance tech. FBI IG Looks to Plug Holes in Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance appeared first on Security Boulevard. The post Who’s Watching You?
Penetration Testing
MAY 24, 2025
Sekoia.ios Threat Detection & Research (TDR) team has unveiled a novel adversary, dubbed “ViciousTrap”, that hijacks compromised SOHO The post ViciousTrap: New Cyber-Espionage Group Hijacks Routers for Honeypot Surveillance appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 23, 2024
Court documents state that on October 29, 2019, plaintiffs filed this lawsuit, alleging that the defendants used WhatsApp to target approximately 1,400 mobile phones and devices to infect them with the surveillance software. ” reads the court document. ” The U.S. from April 29, 2018, to May 10, 2020).
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