The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:30:18 +0000

Not long ago, the ability to remotely track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a powerful surveillance tool that should only be in the purview of nation states. But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone can now access this capability, thanks to a proliferation of commercial services that hoover up the digital exhaust emitted by widely-used mobile apps and websites.

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ICE’s $2 Million Contract With a Spyware Vendor Is Under White House Review

Credit to Author: Vas Panagiotopoulos| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:03:22 +0000

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s contract with Paragon Solutions faces scrutiny over whether it complies with the Biden administration’s executive order on spyware, WIRED has learned.

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Using gRPC and HTTP/2 for Cryptominer Deployment: An Unconventional Approach

Credit to Author: Abdelrahman Esmail| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog entry, we discuss how malicious actors are exploiting Docker remote API servers via gRPC/h2c to deploy the cryptominer SRBMiner to facilitate their mining of XRP on Docker hosts.

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Earth Simnavaz (aka APT34) Levies Advanced Cyberattacks Against Middle East

Credit to Author: Mohamed Fahmy| Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Trend Micro’s investigation into the recent activity of Earth Simnavaz provides new insights into the APT group’s evolving tactics and the immediate threat it poses to sectors in the Middle East.

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