Powerful FinSpy Spyware Found Targeting iOS and Android Users in Myanmar

One of the most powerful, infamous, and advanced piece of government-grade commercial surveillance spyware dubbed FinSpy—also known as FinFisher—has been discovered in the wild targeting users in Myanmar. Created by German company Gamma International, FinSpy is spying software that can target...

Powerful FinSpy Spyware Found Targeting iOS and Android Users in Myanmar

One of the most powerful, infamous, and advanced piece of government-grade commercial surveillance spyware dubbed FinSpy —also known as FinFisher —has been discovered in the wild targeting users in Myanmar. Created by German company Gamma International, FinSpy is spying software that can target...

Details of the Cloud Hopper Attacks

Reuters has a long article on the Chinese government APT attack called Cloud Hopper. It was much bigger than originally reported. The hacking campaign, known as "Cloud Hopper," was the subject of a U.S. indictment in December that accused two Chinese nationals of identity theft and fraud...

CVE-2019-11709

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2019-07-10 04:00:00+00:00| seen| https://www.govcert.gov.hk/en/alertsdetail.php?id=406...

The most magnificent thing about Vulnerabilities and who is behind the magic

What I like the most about software vulnerabilities is how "vulnerability", as a quality of a real object and the computer program is real, literally appears from nothing. Let's say we have a fully updated server. We turn it off, lock it in a safe and forget about it for half a year. Six months...

Sea Turtle keeps on swimming, finds new victims, DNS hijacking techniques

By Danny Adamitis with contributions from Paul Rascagneres. Executive summary After several months of activity, the actors behind the "Sea Turtle" DNS hijacking campaign are not slowing down. Cisco Talos recently discovered new details that suggest they regrouped after we published our initial...

Apple Transparency Report Now Includes App Store Takedown Requests

For the first time Apple added to its transparency report the number of App Store takedown requests it has received from governments. The report, released Tuesday, also puts some hard numbers on how often law enforcement and governments request device and user data. App Takedown Request Apple’s...

China's Border Guards Secretly Installing Spyware App on Tourists' Phones

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 autonomous territory and home to many Muslim ethnic...

Ransomware Hits Georgia Courts as Municipal Attacks Spread

Almost every month in 2019 so far has seen reports of a local government falling prey to ransomware, but this series of attacks belies an even broader threat...

Is Your VPN Provider in a 14 Eyes Country? (What is 14 Eyes?)

By Owais Sultan The reason people have Virtual private networks VPNs is that they protect our online privacy, however, privacy is essentially non-existent if you live in a place where the government is allowed to track your online activities. This is why you need to get a good VPN, the goal is to...

Yubico Security Keys with a Crypto Flaw

Wow, is this an embarrassing bug: Yubico is recalling a line of security keys used by the U.S. government due to a firmware flaw. The company issued a security advisory today that warned of an issue in YubiKey FIPS Series devices with firmware versions 4.4.2 and 4.4.4 that reduced the randomness ...

CVE-2019-2729

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2019-06-19 04:00:00+00:00| seen| https://www.govcert.gov.hk/en/alertsdetail.php?id=400 2019-06-19 20:48:21+00:00| exploited| https://t.me/thehackernews/344 2019-06-19 20:49:48+00:00| seen| https://t.me/canyoupwnme/5659 2019-06-19 20:51:26+00:00|...

5,000 Twitter Accounts Linked to Disinformation Campaigns

Twitter has removed six sets of accounts that the site has deemed to be devoted to coordinated, state-backed propaganda activities – totaling about 5,000 accounts in all. “We believe that people and organizations with the advantages of institutional power and which consciously abuse our service a...

The sights and sounds from the Talos Threat Research Summit

More than 250 threat hunters, network defenders and analysts gathered ahead of Cisco Live for the second annual Talos Threat Research Summit on Sunday. The conference by defenders, for defenders, returned this year after the inaugural event in 2018 to San Diego, where speakers passed on their...

Video game portrayals of hacking: NITE Team 4

Note: The developers of NITE Team 4 granted the blog author access to the game plus DLC content. A little while ago, an online acquaintance of mine asked if a new video game based on hacking called NITE Team 4 was in any way realistic, or “doable” in terms of the types of hacking it portrayed...

IoT Security Regulation is on the Horizon

LONDON, UK – Internet of things IoT device security continues to worry the tech industry – however, experts believe that the right type of global regulation could be key for ensuring security standards. The question is when those regulatory efforts will be fleshed out. Ken Munro, with Pen Test...

Shiro Deserialization Vulnerability in ECGAP 2.0, Wave's Government Service Cloud Platform

i.e. Wave Group, which owns four listed companies, namely Wave Information, Wave Software, Wave International and Huaguang Optoelectronics, with business covering four industry clusters, namely cloud data center, cloud service big data, smart city and smart enterprise, provides IT products and...

Zebrocy: A Russian APT Specializing in Victim Profiling, Access

Zebrocy, the Russian speaking threat group that shares similarities and overlaps with both the Sofacy and BlackEnergy APTs, is once again roaming the wide plain of government, foreign-affairs and military targets. Researchers have spotted the group using a new first-stage malware dropper in recen...

Chinese Spy Group Mixes Up Its Malware Arsenal with Brand-New Loaders

The Chinese-language cyber-espionage group known as APT10 has apparently added to its malware bag of tricks, with two never-before-seen malware loader variants used in April campaigns against government and private organizations in Southeast Asia. Also, the campaigns featured modified versions of...

A week in security (May 20 – 26)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at a skimmer pretending to be a payment service provider, gave an overview of what riskware is, took a deep dive into concerns about PACS leaks, and dug around in the land of “These Governments said fix it…hurry up”. Other cybersecurity news Changes...