La cour d'appel de Paris a confirmé cette semaine (lundi), la mise en examen de la société française Amesys pour complicité d'actes de torture dans l'enquête sur la vente d’un programme de cybersurveillance au régime libyen de Mouammar Kadhafi. Deux des chefs de l'entreprise ont été inculpés, ce qui rend la société complice d'exactions en Libye.
Cyber threat intelligence largely involves the tracking and studying of the adversaries outside of your network. Gaining counterintelligence about your adversaries' capabilities and weaponry is one of the final building blocks for managing a strong cyber defense. In the pursuit of performing this duty, I have been studying how to discover adversary infrastructure on the internet. One good way of doing this has been via leveraging the scan data available through the popular Shodan search engine. If you've not used it before, Shodan periodically scans the entire internet and makes it available for users to query through. It is often used to monitor networks, look for vulnerabilities, and ensure the security of an organization's perimeter.
Someone is allegedly selling up-to-date mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users. A data sample investigated by Cybernews likely confirms this to be true.
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ViperSoftX is a multi-stage stealer that exhibits interesting hiding capabilities. Other than stealing cryptocurrencies, it also spreads the VenomSoftX browser extension, which performs man-in-the-browser attacks.
A Russian zero-day exploit purchase site is interested in tools for hacking of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations. This raises a number of questions. Why would anybody want to hack such targets? Also, why would Russian entities (in particular) be interested in such targets? The best answer to these is “good question!”, and let's put politics aside. Let’s explore the potential cybersecurity risks of electric vehicle charging station, assuming the ability of compromising them at a scale, having some kind of tools. It turns out that this is a fascinating security problem!
The WatchGuard Security Team spends a lot of time chasing ransomware extortion groups throughout the dark web. So, it only fits that one of the newer ransomware extortion groups is named Endurance Ransomware. It appears this “group” is one individual known as IntelBroker, who has allegedly breached several entities of the US government and two […]