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Many smartphone users are surprised when they get a pop up as soon as they leave a place asking them to rate their experience visiting that location. It could be a shop or a restaurant that you went to have your lunch or dinner, or just about any place. A majority of them may just […]
IT’S IMPORTANT NOT to overstate the security risks of the Amazon Echo and other so-called smart speakers. They’re useful, fun, and generally have well thought-out privacy protections. Then again, putting a mic in your home naturally invites questions over whether it can be used for eavesdropping—which is why researchers at the security firm Checkmarx started fiddling with Alexa, to see if […]
The free VPN of Facebook called Onavo has been dedicated for five years to collect private information of its users, such as installed applications or Internet browsing habits, according to a cyber security company. It is not that this free VPN does not warn you, because in its privacy policy it clarifies that the data can be […]
Alphonso, a startup that retails media-viewing data, provides a plugin that listens for audio signals in shows and movies. Approximately 250 mobile entertainments and social applications in the Google Play Store use it to produce targeted ads, according to News, a few of which include bland-sounding titles like “Pool 3D”, “Beer Pong: Trickshot”, “Real Bowling […]
Trove included more than 1.8 billion posts spanning eight years, many from US people. A Pentagon contractor left a vast archive of social-media posts on a publicly accessible Amazon account in what appears to be a military-sponsored intelligence-gathering operation that targeted people in the US and other parts of the world. The three cloud-based storage […]
Known as USA 276, it looks to be headed for the International Space Station, says one amateur spy satellite tracker. Then again, it could change course. The secret spy satellite that SpaceX launched May 1 is currently on a curious trajectory, according to the calculations of an amateur spy satellite tracker. It appears it might […]
A JavaScript file secretly loaded without your knowledge on a site, or app you load on your mobile device, can access data from various sensors and collect information needed to guess the passwords or PIN a user is entering on his device. This novel attack technique was discovered and explored by a team of scientists […]
Social engineering employed to distribute ViperRAT malware which uses infected devices to take photos and record audio. Hackers are carrying out surveillance on members of the Israeli military by hacking into their Android phones in order to monitor activity and steal data – potentially including photos and audio recordings – according to security companies. Developed […]
A raw intelligence document published last week claims Russian cyber experts have cracked Telegram messaging service to spy on opponents. A raw intelligence document published last week contains much information about President Donald Trump and the approach of the Kremlin to the cyber espionage. According to the report, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) offers bribes for back […]
CAUTIOUS COMPUTER USERS put a piece of tape over their webcam. Truly paranoid ones worry about their devices’ microphones—some even crack open their computers and phones to disable or remove those audio components so they can’t be hijacked by hackers. Now one group of Israeli researchers has taken that game of spy-versus-spy paranoia a step […]
Stealth Cell Tower, it is an antagonistic GSM base station concealed in an office printer that could be used for surveillance purposes. Are you angry with your boss or your colleagues? Do you want to spy on them? The engineer Julian Oliver has demonstrated how to do it with a tiny cellphone base station concealed in […]
Researchers at the Bellingcat agency have been hit with spear phishing attacks and account takeover attempts while investigating flight MH17 crash. Once again cyber security experts warn of a new hacking campaign that this time is targeting Citizen Journalists reporting the crash of the flight MH17 of the Malaysian Airlines. According to the intelligence firm […]
Privacy is important. If your webcam gets hijacked, hackers can record you with your notice. It’s good to cover your webcam with small sticker on it to stop the CIA reading your brainwaves. Hackers are really interested in spying upon others and steal information. They like to record a video footage about you from your computer […]
Attackers have been using social engineering to avoid the increasing costs of exploitation due to the significant hardening and exploit mitigations investments in Windows. Tricking a user into running a malicious file or malware can be cheaper for an attacker than building an exploit which works on Windows 10. In our previous blog, Where’s the […]
Crooks also delivering keyloggers and password stealers. A new trojan called BackDoor.TeamViewerENT.1 is using parts of the legitimate TeamViewer application to allow crooks to spy on infected systems. The concept is not new by any means, and crooks employed TeamViewer in the past, when they packaged the legitimate app alongside their malware and used it to […]
Espionage platform with more than 50 modules was almost certainly state sponsored. Security experts have discovered a malware platform that’s so advanced in its design and execution that it could probably have been developed only with the active support of a nation state. The malware—known alternatively as “ProjectSauron” by researchers from Kaspersky Lab and “Remsec” by […]
EFF exposes threat group operating for Kazakhstan regime. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a report today named Operation Manul that details attacks with malware on Kazakhstan’s top journalists and political activists, who have taken a stance against the current authoritarian regime. According to a team of EFF, First Look Media, and Amnesty International experts, […]
F-Secure researchers say parties involved in the South China Sea arbitration case were infected with the data-stealing NanHaiShu Trojan. Hackers have used targeted malware to steal data from some of the governments and private sector organisations involved in the dispute over territory and sovereignty in the South China Sea. Cybersecurity company F-Secure Labs uncovered the […]
When it comes to accessing public websites, Tor has an intrinsic security problem: though the nodes between your computer and the public internet are unable to see where the traffic is coming from or going to, the final hop in the network (known as an exit node) gets to know what webserver you are connecting […]
Hackers leak 1.4GB database of information after breaching Qatar National Bank.A group of unknown hackers have claimed to have hacked into the servers of Qatar National Bank (QNB), based in Doha and posted online to the whistleblower site Cryptome on April 26. Before uploading on this site, the massive leak was uploaded at Global-Files.net, but […]
Dr.Web, a Russian antivirus maker, has detected a new threat against Linux users, the Linux.Ekocms.1 trojan, which includes special features that allow it to take screengrabs and record audio. Discovered four days ago, Linux.Ekocms is only the latest threat targeting Linux PCs, after the Linux.Encoder ransomware family and the Linux XOR DDoS malware had caused […]