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Leaked EU Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption

By Lily Hay Newman, Morgan Meaker, Matt Burgess β€” May 22nd 2023 at 19:23
In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is β€œimperative that we have access to the data.”
☐ β˜† βœ‡ The Hacker News

Iranian Hackers Launch Sophisticated Attacks Targeting Israel with PowerLess Backdoor

By Ravie Lakshmanan β€” April 25th 2023 at 13:04
An Iranian nation-state threat actor has been linked to a new wave of phishing attacks targeting Israel that's designed to deploy an updated version of a Windows backdoor called PowerLess. Cybersecurity firm Check Point is tracking the activity cluster under its mythical creature handleΒ Educated Manticore, which exhibits "strong overlaps" with a hacking crew known as APT35, Charming Kitten,
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Operation Soft Cell: Chinese Hackers Breach Middle East Telecom Providers

By Ravie Lakshmanan β€” March 23rd 2023 at 09:29
Telecommunication providers in the Middle East are the subject of new cyber attacks that commenced in the first quarter of 2023. The intrusion set has been attributed to a Chinese cyber espionage actor associated with a long-running campaign dubbedΒ Operation Soft CellΒ based on tooling overlaps. "The initial attack phase involves infiltrating Internet-facing Microsoft Exchange servers to deploy
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Chinese Hackers Targeting European Entities with New MQsTTang Backdoor

By Ravie Lakshmanan β€” March 3rd 2023 at 09:56
The China-aligned Mustang Panda actor has been observed using a hitherto unseen custom backdoor calledΒ MQsTTangΒ as part of an ongoing social engineering campaign that commenced in January 2023. "Unlike most of the group's malware, MQsTTang doesn't seem to be based on existing families or publicly available projects," ESET researcher Alexandre CΓ΄tΓ© CyrΒ saidΒ in a new report. Attack chains
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Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Crypto

By Paul Ducklin β€” February 6th 2023 at 21:53
Hear renowned cybersecurity author Andy Greenberg's thoughtful commentary about the "war on crypto" as we talk to him about his new book...

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Cyber Attacks Against Middle East Governments Hide Malware in Windows Logo

By Ravie Lakshmanan β€” September 30th 2022 at 11:52
An espionage-focused threat actor has been observed using a steganographic trick to conceal a previously undocumented backdoor in a Windows logo in its attacks against Middle Eastern governments. Broadcom's Symantec Threat Hunter Team attributed the updated tooling to a hacking group it tracks under the nameΒ Witchetty, which is also known asΒ LookingFrog, a subgroup operating under the TA410
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