Collaborate Disseminate
Researchers uncover the activities of Appin, a hack-for-hire Indian firm involved in espionage, surveillance, and disruptive attacks.
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South Korea and the United States’s FBI are warning organisations that they might have inadvertently recruited a North Korean spy to work in their IT department. Continue reading Have you accidentally hired a North Korean IT worker who’s spying on your company?
Dream girlfriends, AI love scams, and an alleged spy who is said to have made a series of blunders.
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole … Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #343: Four-legged girlfriends, LoveGPT, and a military intelligence failure
Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store.
An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been downloaded from Play roughly 100 times before Google took it down last April after being tipped off by security firm ESET. It was also available in the Samsung app store and on signalplus[.]org, a dedicated website mimicking the official Signal.org. An app calling itself FlyGram, meanwhile, was created by the same threat actor and was available through the same three channels. Google removed it from Play in 2021. Both apps remain available in the Samsung store…
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Iran-linked cyberespionage group Charming Kitten has infected at least 34 victims in Brazil, Israel, and UAE with a new backdoor.
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Symantec warns that the Redfly APT appears to be focusing exclusively on targeting critical national infrastructure organizations.
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For all their talk of cooperation and shared interests, the nations of the world put an awful lot of effort into spying on each other. All this espionage is an …read more Continue reading It’s Numbers All The Way Down With This Tape Measure Number Station Antenna
Earth Estries, a cyberspy group possibly linked to China, has targeted governments and tech firms in the US, Germany, South Africa and Asia.
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By Waqas
Trellix’s researchers uncovered a series of vulnerabilities in two prominent data center equipment vendors: CyberPower and Dataprobe.
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The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020—we don’t know how—and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story:
The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on—plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current and former U.S. and Japanese officials interviewed, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
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The 2020 penetration was so disturbing that Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, and Matthew Pottinger, who was White House deputy national security adviser at the time, raced to Tokyo. They briefed the defense minister, who was so concerned that he arranged for them to alert the prime minister himself…