Written by Tonya Riley Dec 16, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP Meta removed seven “surveillance-for-hire” organizations that used Facebook to target at least 50,000 individuals across 100 countries for surveillance operations, some…
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‘Tropic Trooper’ Reemerges to Target Transportation Outfits
Analysts warn that the attack group, now known as ‘Earth Centaur,’ is honing its attacks to go after transportation and government agencies. They’ve been an active threat group since 2011,…
State-sponsored Threat Actors Steal Airline Data Using the Slack API
Reports show that a recently found backdoor dubbed ‘Aclip’ that exploits the Slack API for covert communications is being used by an alleged Iranian state-sponsored cybercriminal. The malicious actor began…
Google: This zero-click iPhone attack was incredible and terrifying
Google has explained how surveillance company NSO Group developed an exploit that would allow users of its software to gain access to an iPhone and install spyware – without a…
Relentless Log4j Attacks Include State Actors, Possible Worm
More than 1.8 million attacks, against half of all corporate networks, have already launched to exploit Log4Shell. Call it a “logjam” of threats: Attackers including nation-state actors have already targeted…
Cybersecurity experts debate concern over potential Log4j worm
As the fallout from the Log4j vulnerability continues, cybersecurity experts are debating what the future might hold. Tom Kellermann, VMware’s head of cybersecurity strategy, said the Log4j vulnerability is one…
NSO Group's latest spyware on par with nation-state abilities, researchers say
Written by AJ Vicens Dec 15, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP When Apple announced Nov. 23 that it filed a lawsuit against Israeli spyware firm NSO Group, it claimed that the firm…
Irani and Chinese State Hackers Exploiting Log4j Vulnerability
According to John Hultquist, VP of Intelligence Analysis, Mandiant, Iranian state hackers are specifically aggressive with this Log4j vulnerability. Cybersecurity firms Mandiant and CrowdStrike have confirmed that Iranian and Chinese…