The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

operating in the surveillance-for-hire industry. The findings are part of its Adversarial Threat Report for the fourth quarter of 2023. Meta Platforms said it took a series of steps to curtail malicious activity from eight different firms based in Italy, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.)

Spyware

Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Meta published a report on the 16th of December, named “Threat Report on the Surveillance-for-Hire Industry”, where it announced that it banned six alleged entities and a Chinese law enforcement supplier that provided services on surveillance-for-hire targeting 50 K people.

Surveillance

CSO Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

But stealthily surveilling a network is not a tactic exclusive to highly sophisticated threat actors targeting enterprise businesses. The Codecov and SolarWinds are strong, loud proof points to the widespread damage possible if hackers achieve undetected, unfettered access to a company’s systems, networks and partners or customers.

Surveillance

SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Researchers analyze industry cybersecurity threat reporting. Researchers from the University of Toronto and the Center for Security Studies in Zurich analyzed hundreds of reports published by the cybersecurity industry. Public and academic knowledge of cyber conflict relies heavily on data from commercial threat reporting.

Cybersecurity

Webroot

JULY 8, 2021

Our latest threat report found the average ransomware payment peaked in September 2020 at more than $230 thousand. Were a cybercriminal to compromise a trusted supplier to distribute ransomware, rather than for surveillance as in that attack, the costs could be enormous. But the ransom alone doesn’t tell the whole story.

Ransomware

Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

Internet-connected smart devices, like surveillance cams, smart light bulbs, smart locks and doorbells and baby monitors, are notoriously fraught with vulnerabilities, posing grave security risks. While interesting, this shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Cybercrime

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Avast explains that one of the biggest IoT security threats is the use of vulnerable devices to access organizations’ network and thus may gain access to sensitive information. Vulnerable devices could be used to spread malware within the enterprise, used for corporate espionage, surveillance of personnel, or plan whaling phishing campaigns.

IoT

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

Domestic Kitten is a threat group mainly known for its mobile backdoors. The group’s operations were exposed in 2018, showing that it was conducting surveillance attacks against individuals in the Middle East. Final thoughts.

Malware

SC Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

intelligence community’s annual Worldwide Threats Report, National Security Agency and U.S. The NSA is not chartered for domestic surveillance, meaning a foreign government that routs an attack through a cloud system in Kansas eliminates some visibility for the intelligence community. Photo by Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images).

Surveillance

Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2025

Two Linux flaws can lead to the disclosure of sensitive data Meta stopped covert operations from Iran, China, and Romania spreading propaganda US Treasury sanctioned the firm Funnull Technology as major cyber scam facilitator ConnectWise suffered a cyberattack carried out by a sophisticated nation state actor Victorias Secret ‘s website offline (..)

Data breaches