Cold War spying is a long way from today’s cyber-espionage weapons but they both successfully stole information – #BeCyberSmart

Source: The Brush Pass Project Brazen

This article comes via Bruce Schneier, and fits nicely into the Weekend Project – it is about security and has some connections to the posts we run here at Smart Thinking. Both Clive and I have attended Bruce Schneier speaking events, and through Clive’s links with Edinburgh Napier University have …

Zero-day targeted attack against journalists using Google Chrome

This attack was highly targeted, using spyware from an Israeli cyber weapons company Candiru. To get the spyware onto the target machines the threat actors exploited, what was then, a zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome. Zero-day used to infect Chrome users could pose threat to Edge and Safari users, too …

Pro-Ukraine activists targeted by Russian hackers

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), is reporting that Russian-backed threat groups are continuing focusing their attacks on Ukrainian organizations and activists supporting Ukraine. Russian hacking group, Turla, have been detected distributing Android malware, CyberAzov app. Turla has been publicly linked to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). Continued cyber activity in …

Who decides who the good guys are? Don’t worry though NSO only sells it’s spyware to approved governments and law enforcement agencies

Here is another report from the well respected Citizen Lab about the use/misuse, sale/mis-sale of the spyware Pegasus by the Israeli NSO Group. GeckoSpy: Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement – The Citizen Lab The sale of these types of cyber weapons on the open market, is enabling governments …