Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered several exploit chains targeting Android, iOS, and Chrome to install commercial spyware. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared details about two distinct campaigns which used several zero-day exploits against Android, iOS and Chrome. links sent over SMS to users.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2022

Leaked documents show the surveillance firm Intellexa offering exploits for iOS and Android devices for $8 Million. Intellexa is an Israeli surveillance firm founded by Israeli entrepreneur Tal Dilian, it offers surveillance and hacking solution to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The fact that the issues were discovered by Google TAG suggests they were exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. Addressed issues include CVE-2023-42916 and CVE-2023-42917 which Apple fixed at the end of November. Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered both vulnerabilities.

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Dark Reading

MAY 23, 2022

An analysis from Google TAG shows that Android zero-day exploits were packaged and sold for state-backed surveillance.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The vulnerability was discovered by Clément Lecigne from Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-09-25, a circumstance that suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. _clem1 discovered another ITW 0-day in use by a commercial surveillance vendor: CVE-2023-5217.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

Five of the issues added by CISA to its catalog are part of the exploits used by surveillance vendors to target mobile devices with their commercial spyware: CVE-2021-30900 – Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability. Google TAG shared indicators of compromise (IoCs) for both campaigns.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Google Project Zero researchers reported that a surveillance vendor is using three Samsung phone zero-day exploits. Google Project Zero disclosed three Samsung phone vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-25337, CVE-2021-25369 and CVE-2021-25370, that have been exploited by a surveillance company. ” reported the advisory.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. The flaw was reported by Clément Lecigne and Vlad Stolyarov of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-12-19 and fixed in just one day.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2023

June 2023 security update for Android released by Google fixes about fifty flaws, including an Arm Mali GPU bug exploited by surveillance firms in their spyware. The flaw made headlines because it was exploited by surveillance firms for their spyware. This vulnerability grants the attacker system access.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The fact that the issues were discovered by Google TAG suggests they were exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered both vulnerabilities. Apple addressed the flaws with the release of iOS 17.1.2, inch 2nd generation and later, iPad Pro 10.5-inch,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Google TAG researchers discovered that threat actors leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in macOS in a watering hole campaign aimed at delivering malware to users in Hong Kong. “To protect our users, TAG routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

” The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. Reported by Clément Lecigne and Vlad Stolyarov of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-12-19” reads the advisory published by the IT giant.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

Security researchers from Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Google Project Zero revealed that four zero-day vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild earlier this year. ” Post by @_clem1 & @maddiestone on 4 0days TAG found this year (with IOCs!). ” reads the post published by Google.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered the zero-day on on 2023-11-24.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

Security researchers at Cisco Talos and the Citizen Lab have shared technical details about a commercial Android spyware named Predator that is sold by the surveillance firm Intellexa (formerly known as Cytrox). The attacks aimed at installing the surveillance spyware Predator, developed by the North Macedonian firm Cytrox.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. Benoît Sevens and Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group discovered the zero-day on on 2023-11-24. 200 for Windows, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.”

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Tile has an interesting security solution to make its tracking tags harder to use for stalking: The Anti-Theft Mode feature will make the devices invisible to Scan and Secure, the company’s in-app feature that lets you know if any nearby Tiles are following you. ” Apple’s AirTag “notifies iPhone users.”

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Tech advances are accelerating the use of facial recognition as a reliable and ubiquitous mass surveillance tool, privacy advocates warn. Many of these photos are tagged with the identity of the people in them. The development of universal video surveillance with facial recognition is generally happening away from the public eye.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

China is being blamed for a massive surveillance operation that targeted Uyghur Muslims. Earlier this year Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a small collection of hacked websites. So now this is a story of a large, expensive, indiscriminate, Chinese-run surveillance operation against an ethnic minority in their country.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

Oracle spent 6 months to fix ‘Mega’ flaws in the Fusion Middleware Multiple malicious packages in PyPI repository found stealing AWS secrets Attackers exploited a zero-day in Mitel VOIP devices to compromise a network Threat actors continue to exploit Log4Shell in VMware Horizon Systems Vulnerabilities in the Jacuzzi SmartTub app could allow to access (..)

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 19, 2019

But the infrastructure of total surveillance is everywhere the same, and everywhere being deployed at scale. Just like you can't drop out of the oil economy by refusing to drive a car, you can't opt out of the surveillance economy by forswearing technology (and for many people, that choice is not an option).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 10, 2014

Snowden Gives Testimony To European Parliament Inquiry Into Mass Surveillance, Asks For EU Asylum – TechDirt A nice overview of Snowden’s recent written testimony to the EU Parliament. Most interesting was his documentation of how the NSA plays one European country off the other to gain access to a plurality of data in each.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 13, 2013

The post The debut of “else”: Surveillance Everywhere and the Technological Wild West appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. In keeping with boolean condition logic of the if/then working title for the book, we’ll be tagging these posts as “else.” The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership – Bloomberg.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) uncovered campaigns targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers discovered three campaigns, between August and October 2021, targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities.

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IT Governance

MAY 17, 2018

As he was in uniform and was wearing the company’s name tag, no one doubted him. Rather than considering himself lucky that he got away without being charged, he put his uniform back on and stole $30,000 from three other Walmarts by pretending to be a general manager from another store.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2024

The measure aims to counter the misuse of surveillance technology targeting journalists, academics, human rights defenders, dissidents, and US Government personnel, as documented in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The attacks aimed at installing the surveillance spyware Predator, developed by the North Macedonian firm Cytrox.

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The government used wartime necessity to justify the intensive surveillance of political dissidents (such as socialists, anarchists, and conscientious objectors) and those “alien enemies,” including German-born U.S. To top it all off, enthusiastic citizens actively participated in these anti-German surveillance campaigns on the local level.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 23, 2019

He does not have to visit any easily to surveil post office or letter box, instead the whole public space becomes his hiding territory. Usually each unit of product is tagged with a piece of paper containing a unique secret word which is used to prove to the sales layer that a dead drop was found.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 24, 2011

According to EPIC’s complaint, Facebook’s Tag Suggestions feature recognizes individuals’ faces based on photographs already on Facebook, then suggests that users “confirm Facebook’s identification of facial images in user photos” when they upload new photos to their Facebook profiles.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

government’s commitment to addressing the misuse of surveillance software, which poses a significant threat to society. ” The policy specifically addresses the abuse of commercial spyware for unlawfully surveilling, harassing, suppressing, or intimidating individuals. The policy underscores the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2023

government added surveillance technology vendors Cytrox and Intellexa to an economic blocklist for trafficking in cyber exploits. Government warns of the key role that surveillance technology plays in surveillance activities that can lead to repression and other human rights abuses. national security or foreign policy interests.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I highly recommend reading Zuboff’s New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power as well as viewing Rifkin’s riveting speech, The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy. Fourthly, Wildland natively implements data multi-categorization.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The surveillance market is literally exploding, intelligence agencies, law enforcement bodies and zero-day brokers are competing to buy exploits that can allow them to compromise devices and apps. It’s unclear if these patches fixed the flaws underlying the exploits that were on sale in 2021.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Gov imposes visa restrictions on individuals misusing Commercial Spyware HPE is investigating claims of a new security breach Experts warn of a surge of attacks targeting Ivanti SSRF flaw How to hack the Airbus NAVBLUE Flysmart+ Manager Crooks stole $25.5

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eDiscovery Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The rules had been implemented in the name of transparency, but employees say they created a culture of intimidation and constant surveillance. Korey often framed her critiques in terms of Away’s core company values: thoughtful, customer-obsessed, iterative, empowered, accessible, in it together.

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