Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It

Canada-based Sandvine has long sold its web-monitoring tech to authoritarian regimes. This week, the US sanctioned the company, severely limiting its ability to do business with American firms...

StrongPity APT Changes Tactics to Stay Stealthy

The APT group behind the sophisticated malware known as StrongPity a.k.a. Promethium has changed its tactics, after various research groups analyzed the malware and exposed its methods of deployment. The efforts have allowed the group to return to hidden status, even after being labeled a known...

State Spy Programs, espionage & Monero mining – fingers point at Sandvine

By Waqas Sandvine Products and Technology Used by Egypt, Turkey, and Syrian This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: State Spy Programs, espionage & Monero mining - fingers point at Sandvine...

ISPs Caught Injecting Cryptocurrency Miners and Spyware In Some Countries

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 scripts into users' web traffic in Egypt...