Security Boulevard

JUNE 27, 2025

APT34 OilRig Helix Kitten Hazel Sandstorm Earth Simnavaz Exploits internet-facing servers and uses supply chain attacks to target finance, energy, chemical, telecommunications and government sectors. CVE-2018-13379 Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN Web Portal Path Traversal Vulnerability [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] 9.8

Accountability

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. After Israel’s strikes, Lookout found new DCHSpy samples.

Spyware

Zero Day

AUGUST 7, 2025

In North America, industries such as technology and telecommunications and finance and insurance show significantly higher Linux adoption compared to Europe. Given the recent shift by European governments from Windows to Linux, this trend isn't surprising.

Marketing

Zero Day

JULY 1, 2025

" Previous proposals withheld internet funds  Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) is a $42-billion program run by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) that helps states build infrastructure to expand high-speed internet access.

Artificial Intelligence

Zero Day

JUNE 27, 2025

  How the moratorium works Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD)  is a $42-billion program run by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) that helps states build infrastructure to expand high-speed internet access.

Internet

Zero Day

JUNE 12, 2025

You can check your iPhone's trade-in value at one of these retailers or at a telecommunications company's authorized dealer. Features like an intact screen and a working camera greatly influence resale or trade-in values. Show more Get the morning's top stories in your inbox each day with our Tech Today newsletter.

Password Management

Zero Day

JULY 12, 2025

You can check your iPhone's trade-in value at one of these retailers or at a telecommunications company's authorized dealer. Features like an intact screen and a working camera greatly influence resale or trade-in values. Show more Editor's note: This article was originally published in 2024.

Retail

Zero Day

JUNE 10, 2025

You can check your iPhone's trade-in value at one of these retailers or at a telecommunications company's authorized dealer. Features like an intact screen and a working camera greatly influence resale or trade-in values. Show more Get the morning's top stories in your inbox each day with our Tech Today newsletter.

Password Management

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has hacked eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between since May 2023. The Russia-linked APT group Sandworm (UAC-0165) has compromised eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between May and September 2023, reported the Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA).

Telecommunications

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It is perhaps best known for selling virtual private networking (VPN) software that lets users remotely access networks and computers over an encrypted connection. Iranian hackers recently have been blamed for hacking VPN servers around the world in a bid to plant backdoors in large corporate networks.

VPN

The Hacker News

JUNE 18, 2021

Russia's telecommunications and media regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) on Thursday introduced restrictions on the operation of VyprVPN and Opera VPN services in the country. "In

VPN

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Iranian hackers have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world. Iran-linked attackers targeted Pulse Secure, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Citrix VPNs to hack into large companies as part of the Fox Kitten Campaign. SecurityAffairs – Fox Kitten campaign, VPN ). Pierluigi Paganini.

VPN

Bleeping Computer

JUNE 18, 2021

Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog, has banned the use of Opera VPN and VyprVPN after classifying them as threats according to current Russian law. [.].

VPN

Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2024

Experts warn that recently disclosed Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Policy Secure vulnerabilities are massively exploited in the wild. Through forensic analysis of the memory sample, Volexity was able to recreate two proof-of-concept exploits that allowed full unauthenticated command execution on the ICS VPN appliance.

VPN

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level, marketing a voice phishing service that uses a combination of one-on-one phone calls and custom phishing sites to steal VPN credentials from employees. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com. Image: urlscan.io. ” SPEAR VISHING.

Phishing

Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

Threat actors are exploiting recently disclosed zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN devices to deliver KrustyLoader. “Rust payloads detected by Volexity team turn out to be pretty interesting Sliver downloaders as they were executed on Ivanti Connect Secure VPN after the exploitation of CVE-2024-21887 and CVE-2023-46805.

VPN

Bleeping Computer

JULY 8, 2024

Apple has removed 25 virtual private network (VPN) apps from the Russian App Store at the request of Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications watchdog. [.]

VPN

Heimadal Security

APRIL 8, 2021

The Cring ransomware, also known as Crypt3r, Vjiszy1lo, Ghost, Phantom, became noticeable in January when it was found by Amigo_A and spotted by the CSIRT team of Swiss telecommunications […]. The post Unpatched Fortinet VPN Devices Are Attacked by New Cring Ransomware appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

VPN

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

App developers, credit card, telecommunication companies, and others use the term “anonymous data” because it sells. LW contributor Goddy Ray is a content manager and researcher at Surfshark VPN. After the interview, I told him that his examples gave me paranoia. But anonymous data really doesn’t exist anymore.

Surveillance

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The p opular ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service have been blocked by the Russian government this week. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service.

Government

SecureWorld News

JULY 21, 2020

Particularly during a time where telecommunication services are vital to preserving remote work and social connections, an attack like this carries damaging consequences. Telecom Argentina has not commented on the incident, when contacted by local press, and did not say if it intends to pay the ransom demand.".

Ransomware

Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2022

Their scope of interests include – major telecommunications companies such as Claro, Telefonica and AT&T. Notably, the actors are looking to buy remote VPN access and asking potential insiders to contact them privately via Telegram, they then reward them by paying for the access granted.

Ransomware

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. The Nobelium cyberspies is using a new custom downloader tracked by the researchers as CEELOADER. ” reads the report published by Mandiant.

Malware

Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2021

AS27725) including Cubacel, the cellular network operated by Cuba’s sole telecommunications company.” VPN services have yet to be blocked in the country, allowing citizens to bypass internet censorship. NetBlocks reported that similar partial disruption was observed last year during the San Isidro protests in Havana.

Media

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Nation-state actors, allegedly Russia-linked hacked, have compromised the networks of several US government agencies, including the US Treasury, the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The hack allowed the threat actors to spy on the internal email traffic. through 2020.2.1

Hacking

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

However, it looks like things are starting to break apart now that Australia has passed the “Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018”. The amendment forces all companies, even VPN providers, to collect and give away confidential user data if the police demand it.

Encryption

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) warns of GALLIUM threat group targeting global telecommunication providers worldwide. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) warns of GALLIUM threat group targeting global telecommunication providers worldwide. ” reads the warning published by Microsoft.

Telecommunications

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

Telecommunication giant T-Mobile confirmed the LAPSUS$ extortion group gained access to its networks in March. In most cases, this involved social engineering employees at the targeted firm into adding one of their computers or mobiles to the list of devices allowed to authenticate with the company’s virtual private network (VPN).”

Mobile

Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

Their scope of interests includes – major telecommunications companies such as Claro, Telefonica and AT&T. Notably, the actors are looking to buy remote VPN access and asking potential insiders to contact them privately via Telegram, they then reward them by paying for the access granted.

Hacking

Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2022

The gang was also providing VPN-like services used by other cybercriminal organizations to carry out malicious activities used to deliver malware to the target organization. Source SSU. The law enforcement arrested the leader of the group, a 36-year-old man that lives in Kyiv, along with his wife and three other acquaintances.

Ransomware

Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2022

virtual private network (VPN), remote desktop protocol (RDP), virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) including Citrix, or Identity providers (including Azure Active Directory, Okta)). Their scope of interests includes – major telecommunications companies such as Claro, Telefonica and AT&T. ” continues the analysis.

Accountability

Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers to spy on the traffic and steal data. US NSA, CISA, and the FBI published a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn that China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers.

Telecommunications

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 12, 2021

VPNs or Virtual Private Networks give you a secure platform where you can get a secure tunnel to send and receive information. Using a VPN gives you lots of benefits. Firstly, your IP address is completely hidden since VPNs redirect your data through a remote server. This server is run by the VPN host.

VPN

Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

The malware creates a proxy or VPN tunnel on the compromised router to exfiltrate data, and then uses stolen credentials to access targeted resources. The experts noticed that the infection chain was distinct, with 99% of infections originating in Turkey, primarily from two major telecommunications providers.

Malware

Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

The Chinese APT is known to be focused on telecommunications companies operating across Asia, Europe and Africa. Alloy Taurus is known for leveraging the SoftEther VPN service to facilitate access and maintain persistence to their targeted network.

Malware

SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2022

We know that war has impacts on telecommunications, but what we've seen in Ukraine is on a different level.". These documents outlined a series of measures the Kremlin wants state-owned websites and online portals to implement by the end of this week in order to "coordinate actions to defend telecommunication services on the internet.".

Technology

Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

Their scope of interests includes – major telecommunications companies such as Claro, Telefonica and AT&T. Notably, the actors are looking to buy remote VPN access and asking potential insiders to contact them privately via Telegram, they then reward them by paying for the access granted.

Telecommunications