Ukraine’s security officers said they took down two online surveillance cameras that were allegedly hacked by Russia to spy on air defense forces and critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. The cameras were installed on residential buildings in Kyiv and were initially used by residents to monitor the surrounding area and parking lot. After hacking […]
President Joe Biden on Friday signed a short-term extension of controversial surveillance efforts after the provision easily cleared Capitol Hill as part of an annual defense policy bill. Last week House and Senate lawmakers voted in favor of the $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which would keep the digital snooping programs authorized under […]
An investigation into the educational technology company GoGuardian revealed the surveillance software used by schools across the country has routinely invaded students’ privacy and incorrectly flagged non-explicit content as harmful, according to an investigation by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. GoGuardian is used to surveil about 27 million students in 11,500 schools nationwide, according to EFF, […]
A vulnerability affecting some industrial routers made by Chinese IoT and video surveillance product maker Milesight may have been exploited in attacks, according to exploit and vulnerability intelligence firm VulnCheck. Several UR-series industrial cellular routers from Milesight (Ursalink) are affected by CVE-2023-43261, a serious vulnerability exposing system log files, such as ‘httpd.log’. The exposed logs […]
Endpoint Security APT 41 Used Android, iOS Surveillance Malware to Target APAC Victims Since 2018 Jayant Chakravarti (@JayJay_Tech) • October 3, 2023 A WeChat Pay payment services sign at Cafe De Coral in Hong Kong (Image; Shutterstock) Security researchers linked a surveillance toolkit called LightSpy to Chinese cyberespionage group APT41. The group used […]
The European Parliament agreed on Tuesday to strengthen protections for journalists from government surveillance as part of the proposed European Media Freedoms Act. As originally proposed last September, the law would have prohibited surveilling journalists and their families — and banned the use of spyware to target their devices — except in the cases of […]