Citizen Lab researchers found Bahrain used NSO Group spyware to target nine human rights activists. Of them, seven live in the country, two are in exile in the UK. Five of them were on 50,000 numbers list obtained by Forbidden Stories and Amnesty
Russia's federal censor has ordered @Apple to delete @Navalny's mobile app
1 month agoVolexity has identified a North Korean APT known as InkySquid exploiting users using recent exploits for IE and Edge via Strategic Web Compromises
The Chinese government secretly took a 1% stake in TikTok owner ByteDance enabling it to nab 1 of 3 board seats. State investors controlled by the country's Chief Censor & its Propaganda Department now have veto rights over the company's decisions
Power out in much of Moorhead
1 month agoNetwork data show interruptions to internet connectivity in Afghanistan amid power outages and a partial collapse of infrastructure as Taliban take control of major cities including Kabul
1 month agoAccording to data collected by @Steeler84267, ransomware attacks against schools in 2021 already equal the number in 2020 Note: attacks on school districts are considered a single attack, total schools impacted is closer to 900
An alleged hacker has announced on RaidForums, a database sharing platform also used by cyber criminals, he would be selling over 1.6 million emails and various documents stolen from the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry.
1 month agoHackers have returned $258 million of stolen digital coins to crypto platform Polynetwork - blockchain
Fazze case — a campaign from Russia targeting primarily India and LATAM, and to a lesser extent the US. It was focused on the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID19 vaccines, but got close to zero traction across the internet
China's crackdown on illegal surveillance led by departments including the cyberspace watchdog and police has seen dozens arrested and more than 25,000 illegal webcams seized
Coordinated cyberattack, which most likely originated in China, targeted government and private organizations in Israel, according to @FireEye
1 month ago"Belarusian Cyber-partisans" last month hacked the servers of Belarusian police and the Interior Ministry. They’ve downloaded the entire “АИС Паспорт” database which contains all personal details of every Belarusian citizen including passport photos, home address, place of work (including those with restricted access who work in KGB and other special services)
China: China's cyberspace regulator held talks with 14 video surveillance producers about potential private video leakage risks, urging them to make corrections
1 month agoConfirmed: Nation-scale power outage registered in Zambia impacting telecommunications networks from ~2:30 pm local time; real-time network data show national connectivity at 70% of ordinary levels; incident ongoing
BrianBrooks: Letting you all know that I have resigned as CEO of @BinanceUS . Despite differences over strategic direction, I wish my former colleagues much success. Exciting new things to come
New accusations by the United States against Russia in cyberattacks are far-fetched, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
1,000,000,000 USDT (1,000,000,000 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to Binance
Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff: The international system is facing severe pressure due to militants and hackers
1 month agoInfosec: Security researchers discovered Vultur, the first Android malware that uses VNC technology to record and broadcast victim's smartphone activity, allowing hackers to collect sensitive information
1 month ago"Russian space officials said a software glitch and possible lapse in human attention were to blame for the mishap that caused the entire space station to pitch out of its normal flight position 250 miles above the Earth with seven crew members aboard
The Dossier Center website has been blocked at the request of the Tagansky District Court
Access to the site Gulagu.net is restricted - Roskomnadzor
1 month agoBitcoin down after big sell order
1 month ago"We need some straight talk right now" amid fear and misinformation, says @POTUS
Facebook may not delete posts that do not violate the law with reference to its own standards - and must now reactivate them. The decision of the Federal Court of Justice
Israeli news is reporting that NSOGroup was raided by Israel's Ministry of Defense
1 month ago"We need the private sector to share information with us so we can continue to protect everyone else" @CISAJen tells @USChamber's Building Resilience Conference in her 1st public speaking engagement since being sworn in at @CISAgov
US (@CISAgov @FBI) Britain (@NCSC) & Australia (@CyberGovAU) issue joint advisory on the 30 most common vulnerabilities exploited by cyber actors/hackers in 2020 Most "involved remote work, VPNs, or cloud-based technologies"
1 month agoReaction from @DHSgov @SecMayorkas & @CommerceGov Sec @GinaRaimondo to @POTUS' new national security memorandum on cybersecurity "..takes a key step toward improving the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure"
