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On Chinese "Spy Trains"

The trade war with China has reached a new industry: subway cars. Congress is considering legislation that would prevent the world's largest train maker, the Chinese-owned CRRC Corporation, from competing on new contracts in the United States. Part of the reasoning behind this legislation is...

Hello! My name is Dtrack

Our investigation into the Dtrack RAT actually began with a different activity. In the late summer of 2018, we discovered ATMDtrack, a piece of banking malware targeting Indian banks. Further analysis showed that the malware was designed to be planted on the victim's ATMs, where it could read and...

Astaroth Spy Trojan Uses Facebook, YouTube Profiles to Cover Tracks

Facebook and YouTube profiles are at the heart of an ongoing phishing campaign spreading the Astaroth trojan, bent on the eventual exfiltration of sensitive information. The attack is sophisticated in that it uses normally trusted sources as cover for malicious activities – thus evading usually...

EvilGnomes Linux malware record activities & spy on users

By Uzair Amir The EvilGnomes Linux malware has been linked to infamous Russian threat actors from the Gamaredon Group. The IT security researchers at Intezar Labs have discovered a sophisticated new backdoor Linux malware in the wild that has been developed to target Linux devices. Dubbed...

Myspace Employees Used to Spy on Users

Robert Mueller will testify, malware wrecks IoT, and more of the week's top security news...

International Spy Museum Reopens

The International Spy Museum has reopened in Washington, DC...

Excerpts from “5 Questions for Eric O’Neil—the FBI “ghost” who brought down a Russian Mole”

Eric O’Neill serves as Carbon Black’s national security strategist where he is a thought leader on a wide range of issues including counterterrorism and national security matters. Prior to this, he was as an operative for the FBI, where he conducted national security field operations against...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5179

A service worker can send the activate event on itself periodically which allows it to run perpetually, allowing it to monitor activity by users. Affects all versions prior to Firefox 60...

Mysterious Hackers Hid Their Swiss Army Spyware for 5 Years

The TajMahal spyware includes more than 80 distinct spy tools, and went undetected for five years...

Lawsuit Claims Pegasus Spyware Helped Saudis Spy on Khashoggi

A well-known Saudi dissident previously targeted by the notorious Pegasus spyware has filed a lawsuit against that spyware’s authors, Israel-based NSO Group. The suit claims that Pegasus was instrumental in the Saudi government’s surveillance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi leading ...

iKeyMonitor Spy App for iPhone and Android: Best Remote Monitoring Tool

By Carolina Nowadays, it has become a social rule to own a smartphone, and humanity has become more dependent on social networks than ever before. We need to be connected to the Internet at all times and we publish our most private and personal thoughts there. Even in social events people spend...

Intel (Skylake / Kaby Lake) - PortSmash CPU SMT Side-Channel Exploit

Exploit for hardware platform in category local exploits Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake - PortSmash CPU SMT Side-Channel Exploit Summary This is a proof-of-concept exploit of the PortSmash microarchitecture attack, tracked by CVE-2018-5407. Setup Prerequisites A CPU featuring SMT e.g. Hyper-Threading ...

Trump's Personal iPhone Would Be a National Security Risk

By using a personal iPhone instead of secured lines, President Trump makes it entirely too easy for China and Russia to spy...

Apple, Amazon in a Tussle with Bloomberg over Spy Chips Report

In our latest security news digest, we delve into the brouhaha over Chinese spy chips, check out the latest in Facebook's investigation of its recent hack, and look at Google's controversial decision to delay disclosing a potential data breach. Bloomberg's spy chip report stuns tech industry, the...

Virus Bulletin 2018: Turla APT Changes Shape with New Code and Targets

MONTREAL – The Turla APT group’s extensive activities have diversified this year, representing a mix of old code, new code and fresh targets. Perhaps most interesting, this sophisticated group is branching into using scripts and open-source code in its malware development – a marked departure for...

Chinese Spying Chips Found Hidden On Servers Used By US Companies

A media report today revealed details of a significant supply chain attack which appears to be one of the largest corporate espionage and hardware hacking programs from a nation-state. According to a lengthy report published today by Bloomberg, a tiny surveillance chip, not much bigger than a gra...

U.S. Charges North Korean Spy Over WannaCry and Sony Pictures Hack

The U.S. Department of Justice announces criminal charges against a North Korean government spy in connection with the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware attack and the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack. According to multiple government officials cited by the NY Times who are familiar with the...

spy-emergency.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-664038 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| spy-emergency.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Indian iPhone Spy Campaign Used Fake MDM Platform

Cyberattackers have used a bogus mobile device management MDM system to target a small – but presumably high-value – set of iPhones in India, in a cyberespionage campaign that has some unusual hallmarks. Researchers said Thursday that attackers deployed an open-source MDM – which is typically use...