Collaborate Disseminate
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new piece of mobile surveillance malware believed to be developed by a Russian defense contractor that has been sanctioned for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Dubbed Monokle, the mobile … Continue reading New Android Spyware Created by Russian Defense Contractor Found in the Wild
Chinese authorities are secretly installing surveillance apps on smartphones of foreigners at border crossings in the Xinjiang region who are entering from neighboring Kyrgyzstan, an international investigation revealed.
Xinjiang (XUAR) is an autonomo… Continue reading China’s Border Guards Secretly Installing Spyware App on Tourists’ Phones
Governments in Turkey and Syria have been caught hijacking local internet users’ connections to secretly inject surveillance malware, while the same mass interception technology has been found secretly injecting browser-based cryptocurrency mining scri… Continue reading ISPs Caught Injecting Cryptocurrency Miners and Spyware In Some Countries
After the disclosure of sophisticated global espionage and disinformation campaign aimed to discredit enemies of the state, Citizen Lab researchers exposed the dirty game of the Mexican government and its politics.
The report — “Government Spy: Systematic monitoring of journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico” — published by Citizen Lab today revealed how the Mexican government used
Continue reading Mexican Govt. Allegedly Used Spyware Against Journalists, Activists & A Child
Recently we reported about a critical code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Word that was being exploited in the wild by cyber criminal groups to distribute malware like Dridex banking trojans and Latentbot.
Now, it turns out that the same previou… Continue reading Not Just Criminals, But Governments Were Also Using MS Word 0-Day Exploit
Ukraine has once again been a target of a potential hacking attack that infected computer systems from dozens of Ukrainian businesses with highly sophisticated malware, allowing hackers to exfiltrate sensitive data and eavesdrop on their network.
Late… Continue reading Malware Hijacks Microphones to Spy On Ukrainian Businesses, Scientists and Media
Remember the Hacker who hacked Hacking Team?
In 2015, a hacker named Phineas Fisher hacked Hacking Team – the Italy-based spyware company that sells spying software to law enforcement agencies worldwide – and exposed some 500 gigabytes of internal data for anyone to download.
Now, the Spanish authorities believe that they have arrested Phineas Fisher, who was not just behind the embarrassing
Continue reading Police Arrested Suspected Hacker Who Hacked the ‘Hacking Team’
We just cannot imagine our lives without smartphones, even for a short while, and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden had not owned a smartphone since 2013 when he began leaking NSA documents that exposed the government’s global surveillance program.
Sno… Continue reading Edward Snowden Designs an iPhone Case to Detect & Block Wireless Snooping