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[Link] Valve bans Cities: Skylines modder accused of hiding malicious code in mods
Read: 14/2/2022 www.pcgamer.com
If you used Cities: Skylines mods from a user known as Chaos or Holy Water, it's probably worth unsubscribing from them, as a post on the Cities: Skylines subreddit explains.
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[Link] Apple Sues NSO Group For Hacking Its Users
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
The tech giant’s lawsuit is just the latest in a string of bad news for NSO in the last few weeks.
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[Link] Ninth Circuit Tells NSO Group It Isn't A Government, Has No Immunity From WhatApp's Lawsuit
Read: 21/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Long before its current run of Very Bad News, Israeli malware purveyor NSO Group was already controversial. Investigations had shown its exploits were being used to target journalists and activists and its customer list included governments known mostly for their human rights abuses.
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[Link] US Sanctions Could Cut-off NSO from Tech It Relies On
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. government added NSO Group to a federal denylist that prohibits any American company or individual from selling or providing services to the controversial Israeli spyware seller. The sanctions effectively prohibit any U.S. company, as well as American citizens working in the U.S.
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[Link] Trojan Source attack: Code that says one thing to humans tells your compiler something very different, warn academics
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Updated The way Unicode's UTF-8 text encoding handles different languages could be misused to write malicious code that says one thing to humans and another to compilers, academics are warning.
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[Link] Alleged TikTok ‘Skyrim IRL’ Murders Shows the Real Danger of Stalkerware
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Last week Ali Nassar Abulaban, a popular TikTok and other social media personality with over a million followers combined across his accounts, allegedly murdered his wife and a man.
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[Link] FBI, others crush REvil using ransomware gang’s favorite tactic against it
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Four days ago, the REvil ransomware gang’s leak site, known as the “Happy Blog,” went offline. Cybersecurity experts wondered aloud what might have caused the infamous group to go dark once more. One theory was that it was an inside job pulled by the group’s disaffected former leader.
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[Link] Recycled Cobalt Strike key pairs show many crooks are using same cloned installation
Read: 25/10/2021 www.theregister.com
Around 1,500 Cobalt Strike beacons uploaded to VirusTotal were reusing the same RSA keys from a cracked version of the software, according to a security researcher who pored through the malware repository.
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[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.
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[Link] This $40 Trojan virus is a reminder to two-factor all your gaming accounts
Read: 7/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Online security firm Kaspersky, makers of one of the best antivirus software options out there,has in recent years been emphasising that gaming accounts are an extremely attractive target for the bad 'uns. Last month for example it reported blocking 5.
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[Link] The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous
Read: 23/9/2021 www.vice.com
Lots of people who use ad blockers say they do it to block malicious ads that can sometimes hack their devices or harvest sensitive information on them. It turns out, the NSA, CIA, and other agencies in the U.S.
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[Link] FTC Orders Spyware Vendor to Stop Business
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
The FTC has banned a stalkerware vendor called SpyFone and its CEO Scott Zuckerman from working in the surveillance business, the agency said in an announcement on Wednesday.
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[Link] New phishing campaign uses Morse code to bypass security controls
Read: 15/8/2021 www.itpro.co.uk
Hackers used Morse code to evade detection in a year-long phishing campaign, according to Microsoft researchers. Researchers said the campaign, first spotted in July 2020, targeted Office 365 users and attempted to get them to hand over credentials using targeted, invoice-themed XLS.
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[Link] Conti ransomware affiliate goes rogue, leaks “gang data”
Read: 15/8/2021 nakedsecurity.sophos.com
If you like a touch of irony in your cybersecurity news, then this has been the week for it. And if that’s not enough to bring a wry smile to your lips, then there’s more.
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[Link] Discord malware is a persistent and growing threat warns Sophos
Read: 13/8/2021 www.pcgamer.com
A few weeks back, leading cybersecurity company Sophos issued a warning that Discord is becoming an increasingly common target for hackers.
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[Link] The Pegasus Project Shows Tech Giants Need to Do More to Keep Users Safe
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Cybersecurity experts have been sounding the alarm about industrialized insecurity for years, but the Pegasus Project has to be a line in the sand. As you might have noticed, this newsletter was dormant for the last 6 months.
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[Link] With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware
Read: 3/8/2021 arstechnica.com
Scammers have been caught using a clever sleight of hand to impersonate the website for the Brave browser and using it in Google ads to push malware that takes control of browsers and steals sensitive data. The attack worked by registering the domain xn--brav-yva[.
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[Link] Google Play puts Android apps on notice: No naughty JavaScript, Python, Lua
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Google's pending Play Store policy changes are bringing various privacy improvements – but also include a security enhancement and disclosure requirement that deserve mention. First, there's a specific ban on the deceptive use of interpreted languages like JavaScript, Python, and Lua.
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[Link] Israeli authorities investigate NSO Group over Pegasus spyware abuse claims
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Israel's Ministry of Defense says the nation's government has visited spyware-for-governments developer NSO Group to investigate allegations its wares have been widely – and perhaps willingly – misused.
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[Link] NPM is Now Providing Malware – or was until recently
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Another malicious library has been spotted in the JavaScript-oriented NPM registry, underscoring the continued fragility of today's software supply chain.
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[Link] From disaster to inconvenience — Zerto adds near-instant ransomware restore
Read: 30/7/2021 blocksandfiles.com
Disaster recovery specialist Zerto aims to deal with the corporate data cancer of ransomware by providing automated virtual machine protection, with restoration within seconds of an attack. Version 9.
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[Link] Malware for Macs Is Getting Bigger, More Dangerous, and It’s Dirt Cheap
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
A disturbing element of modern cybercrime is just how easy it is to procure powerful and invasive tools — the kind that can wreak total havoc on an unsuspecting victim’s computer.
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[Link] We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals
Read: 15/7/2021 www.vice.com
'Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. See More → The sleek, black phone seems perfectly normal.
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