Fake Signal and Telegram Apps in the Google Play Store
September 14 2023Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store.
An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been...
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China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks
August 14 2023The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020—we don’t know how—and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story:
The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be...
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The US Is Spying on the UN Secretary General
June 30 2023The Washington Post is reporting that the US is spying on the UN Secretary General.
The reports on Guterres appear to contain the secretary general’s personal conversations with aides...
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Chinese Hacking of US Critical Infrastructure
May 31 2023Everyone is writing about an interagency and international report on Chinese hacking of US critical infrastructure. Lots of interesting details about how the group, called Volt Typhoon, accesses target networks...
Read moreFBI Disables Russian Malware
May 10 2023Reuters is reporting that the FBI “had identified and disabled malware wielded by Russia’s FSB security service against an undisclosed number of American computers, a move they hoped...
Read moreRussian Cyberwarfare Documents Leaked
March 31 2023Now this is interesting:
Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before...
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Real-World Steganography
January 20 2023From an article about Zheng Xiaoqing, an American convicted of spying for China: According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, the US citizen hid confidential files stolen from his...
Read moreSecurity Vulnerabilities in Covert CIA Websites
September 30 2022Back in 2018, we learned that covert system of websites that the CIA used for communications was compromised by—at least—China and Iran, and that the blunder caused a...
Read moreCold War Bugging of Soviet Facilities
September 28 2022Found documents in Poland detail US spying operations against the former Soviet Union.
The file details a number of bugs found at Soviet diplomatic facilities in Washington, D.C., New...
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