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Detections rates for stalkerware applications on Android and Windows devices are slowly improving, according to the findings of a seven-month research project carried out by independent antivirus testing lab AV-Comparatives and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The study [PDF], published earlier this week, took place in two phases, with the first in November 2019, and the […] More
Image: ZDNet For the past four years, an Italian company has operated a seemingly legitimate website and business, offering to provide binary protection against reverse engineering for Windows applications, but has secretly advertised and provided its service to malware gangs. The company’s secret business came to light after security researchers from Check Point began looking […] More
Australian beverage giant Lion on Friday added further detail to the cyber incident it disclosed earlier this week, confirming it fell victim to a ransomware attack. “Our investigations to date have shown that a system outage has been caused by ransomware. The ransomware targeted our computer systems. In response, we immediately shut down key systems […] More
After banning the account of a Chinese human-rights activist earlier this week at the behest of Beijing, as reported by The New York Times, and later restoring it, Zoom has decided it needs a system to keep the ramifications of laws to the jurisdictions that create them. In yet another blog post where the company […] More
Social networking giant Twitter disclosed today three new state-linked information operations that have been taken place on its platform this year. As a result of its investigation, Twitter said it banned and removed 32,242 accounts that were part of networks operated out of China, Russia, and Turkey, all three pushing local political agendas and narratives, […] More
The city of Knoxville, Tennessee, has shut down its IT network today following a ransomware attack, CBS affiliate WVLT reported today. The attack took place last night, between June 10 and June 11. The city’s IT department did not detect the intrusion until it was too late and the ransomware had already encrypted multiple systems. […] More
Congress wants to know which foreign governments are using commercially-available surveillance tools — commonly referred to as spyware. The US government’s new position was included in a draft of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, the bill that lays out funding for the US government’s intelligence operations for next year. According to the […] More
Industrial control networks are coming under attack from a range of ransomware attacks, security researchers have warned, after an experiment revealed the speed at which hackers are uncovering vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure. Security company Cybereason built a ‘honeypot’ designed to look like an electricity company with operations across Europe and North America. The network was made […] More
