Apple does not attribute attacks or the notices to specific malicious actors or geographical regions, the notification said, due to the “extreme cost, sophistication, and worldwide nature of mercenary spyware attacks [which] make them some of the most advanced digital threats in existence today.”
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An alliance of Belarusian and pro-Ukrainian hackers claimed to have taken out Russia's federal statistics agency, Rosstat, and stolen vast amounts of sensitive government data in a cyberattack.
Google shut down the servers behind XCPE, a backdoor hidden in the firmware of Android TV set-top boxes. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group attributes the operation with high confidence to Videostrong Technology, the company that manufactured many of those boxes. More than 1.3 million devices were enrolled. XCPE malware overview (Source: Google) Access The business model was access. Researchers say the company sold e…
A botnet of more than 1.3 million Android devices, mostly TV set-top boxes, lost control of its servers in late October in a takedown led by Google. Google says it is highly confident that device maker Videostrong intentionally put a backdoor in the boxes and sold access to criminals. They used the boxes for ad fraud and to pass other people's internet traffic through owners' home
A new Windows infostealer sends the data it steals to an AI model and asks it to rank the victim’s assets by how much money they could bring in, Cisco Talos has found. “There is a new idea in the cybercrime world — cast a wide net, steal everything, and let AI sort out the specifics,” said Ryan Fetterman, a security researcher at Cisco. The malware calls itself VOLTA-AUTODOXER and turned up through Talos’ CAIRN … Mor…
