Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2025

It determined that such tools are only appropriate for investigating serious crimes, and could expose citizens to surveillance activities posing a “very severe” intrusion into privacy. The decision limits the use of surveillance software , which can monitor encrypted communications, for cases meeting a high threshold of criminal severity.

Spyware

Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2025

Arkana Security, a new ransomware group, claims to have breached the telecommunications provider WideOpenWest (WOW!). is a US-based telecommunications company that provides broadband internet, cable TV, and phone services. .” At this time, the group also listed the company Oregon Surveillance Network on the leak site.

Hacking

Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2025

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. but given the Salt Typhoon breach and the apparent lackluster security practices and culture at just about every American telecommunications company, this was too interesting to ignore.

Surveillance

SecureWorld News

JULY 22, 2025

Disrupting a single subsea telecommunications cable can incur "more than 24 million euros per day" in costs, while damages to oil and gas pipelines can easily reach "tens of billions of euros" for repairs alone. The very tools designed for protection—drones, surveillance systems, interconnected sensors—become new attack vectors.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Zero-days Iranian hacker group aims at US election websites and media before vote, Microsoft says Burning Zero Days: FortiJump FortiManager vulnerability used by nation state in espionage via MSPs Amazon identified internet domains abused by APT29 RDP configuration files as a means of obtaining remote access to a computer or “Rogue RDP” (..)

Data breaches

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

.” Sources involved in the investigation said UNC5537 has focused on hacking into telecommunications companies around the world. A segment of a lawsuit Binns filed in 2020 against the CIA, in which he alleges U.S. put him on a terror watch list after he traveled to Syria in 2017.

Cybercrime

Schneier on Security

MARCH 31, 2025

Bush’s administration, the NSA conducted warrantless taps into domestic communications as well—surveillance that several district courts ruled to be illegal before those decisions were later overturned by appeals courts. A separate attack from China last year accessed a similar capability built into US telecommunications networks.

Government

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A surveillance photo of Connor Riley Moucka, a.k.a. However, Vars_Secc would be banned from XSS after attempting to sell access to the Russian telecommunications giant Rostelecom. [In Another suspect in the Snowflake hacks, John Erin Binns , is an American who is currently incarcerated in Turkey. government server for $2,000.

DDOS

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 9, 2025

Key cybersecurity provisions Securing communications networks Five billion dollars is allocated to help local telecommunications providers replace potentially insecure Chinese technology (e.g., Reforming surveillance practices Proposals to restrict Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) were left out.

Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

s efforts to expand government surveillance powers could also threaten encrypted services like FaceTime and iMessage. This would reopen access to iCloud-stored data for law enforcement through legal requests but at the cost of privacy for British customers. This development follows previous warnings from Apple that the U.K.'s

Encryption

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2025

The group’s victims are mainly in the telecommunications, government (IT services), and oil sectors. MuddyWater targets organizations in multiple sectors, including telecommunications, defense, local government, and oil and natural gas in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America.

Spyware

Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It’s Iran’s turn to have its digital surveillance tools leaked : According to these internal documents, SIAM is a computer system that works behind the scenes of Iranian cellular networks, providing its operators a broad menu of remote commands to alter, disrupt, and monitor how customers use their phones.

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

APRIL 5, 2024

It seems that the FCC might be fixing the vulnerabilities in SS7 and the Diameter protocol: On March 27 the commission asked telecommunications providers to weigh in and detail what they are doing to prevent SS7 and Diameter vulnerabilities from being misused to track consumers’ locations.

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The reason these threats are so real is that it's not difficult to hide surveillance or control infrastructure in computer components, and if they're not turned on, they're very difficult to find. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

Experts uncovered an enterprise-grade surveillance malware dubbed Hermit used to target individuals in Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy since 2019. Lookout Threat Lab researchers uncovered enterprise-grade Android surveillance spyware, named Hermit, used by the government of Kazakhstan to track individuals within the country.

Spyware

Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the Italian surveillance firm RCS Labs was helped by some Internet service providers (ISPs) in Italy and Kazakhstan to infect Android and iOS users with their spyware. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The United Arab Emirates denied reports that the popular mobile app ToTok was used as part of a government massive surveillance program. According to a report recently published by the New York Times , the popular app ToTok was used by the UAE government as a surveillance tool. SecurityAffairs – ToTok, surveillance).

Surveillance

Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2019

This is exactly the policy debate we should be having­not the fake one about whether or not we can have both security and surveillance. I served for many years as the general counsel of a large telecommunications concern. That telecommunications company was GTE­which became Verizon.

Encryption

Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

This is exactly the policy debate we should be having -- not the fake one about whether or not we can have both security and surveillance. I served for many years as the general counsel of a large telecommunications concern. That telecommunications company was GTE -- which became Verizon.

Encryption

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

App developers, credit card, telecommunication companies, and others use the term “anonymous data” because it sells. Despite warnings from cybersecurity academics, whistleblowers or former NSA and CIA agents, the general public shows no animosity toward metadata surveillance. But anonymous data really doesn’t exist anymore.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

Syrian-linked APT group SEA recently used COVID-19-themed lures as part of a long-running surveillance campaign, security researchers warn. 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).

Surveillance

Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The United States government, through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has banned the sale of equipment from Chinese telecommunications and video surveillance vendor Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, and Dahua due "unacceptable risks to national security". [.].

Telecommunications

Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

The Register reports that the secret structures of GCHQ are part of the surveillance programme codenamed “CIRCUIT” and also refers to an Overseas Processing Centre 1 (OPC-1), while another centre, OPC-2, has been planned, according to documents leaked by Snowden. In the documents, the company is referred to as a “partner” codenamed Gerontic.

Wireless

IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It went into effect on 13 th August 2020 and addresses the new prohibition on the use of banned telecommunications equipment and services, while also clarifying the ban from 2019 on buying such equipment. the telecommunications and video surveillance services or equipment they work with.?? government and industry. .

Telecommunications

Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2019

The popular privacy-focused email service ProtonMail has been accused of offering voluntarily real-time surveillance assistance to law enforcement. The popular privacy-focused email service ProtonMail made the headlines because it has been accused of supporting real-time surveillance carried out by law enforcement. Pierluigi Paganini.

Government

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

These insecurities are a result of market forces that prioritize costs over security and of governments, including the United States, that want to preserve the option of surveillance in 5G networks. The geopolitics of 5G are complicated, involving a lot more than security.

Data collection

Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2022

. “We’re publishing the details of a new vulnerability (tracked under CVE-2022-30563) affecting the implementation of the Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) WS-UsernameToken authentication mechanism in some IP cameras developed by Dahua, a very popular manufacturer of IP-based surveillance solutions.”

Surveillance

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Businesses and homeowners increasingly rely on internet protocol (IP) cameras for surveillance. Since this is a convenient and cheap tool to surveil anything from a parking lot, a warehouse, your doorstep, or even monitor your child’s sleep using a baby camera, it’s not surprising to see a surge in IP camera usage.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) uncovered a new targeted attack on the information and telecommunication systems of Ukrainian government entities. The new malicious code act as surveillance software, they implement surveillance capabilities and remote administration features.

Cyber Attacks

Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2022

The group’s victims are mainly in the telecommunications, government (IT services), and oil sectors. According to the Congressional Research Service, the MOIS “conducts domestic surveillance to identify regime opponents. It also surveils anti-regime activists abroad through its network of agents placed in Iran’s embassies.”

Surveillance

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 28, 2022

NOTE 1- A ICS is an instrumentation of a digital control system in industries that are into the process of chemicals, pulp, paper production, power generation, water supply and oil and gas processing, along with telecommunication.

Malware

Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

The group targets government entities, Kurdish (political) groups like PKK, telecommunication, ISPs, IT-service providers (including security companies), NGO, and Media & Entertainment sectors; Over the years, the group enhanced its evasion capabilities. Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns.

Accountability

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The Agency calls for proposals on solutions that could support NATO’s command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) and of course to improve cyber capabilities.

Telecommunications

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 APT group targets telecommunication and travel industries in the Middle East to gather intelligence on Iran’s geopolitical interests.

Government

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

“This activity was typically only within reach of intelligence agencies or surveillance contractors, but now Motherboard has confirmed that this capability is much more widely available in the hands of financially-driven cybercriminal groups, who are using it to empty bank accounts. ” said the Bank spokesman.

Banking

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

At the end of January, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country.

Telecommunications

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

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Cyber Attacks