Espionage
New ‘MontysThree’ Toolset Used in Targeted Industrial Espionage Attacks
Researchers uncovered a new toolset they’ve dubbed “MontysThree” that has played a role in targeted industrial espionage attacks stretching back to 2018. In the summer of 2020, Kaspersky Lab discovered that an ...
On Executive Order 12333
Mark Jaycox has written a long article on the US Executive Order 12333: “No Oversight, No Limits, No Worries: A Primer on Presidential Spying and Executive Order 12,333“: Abstract: Executive Order 12,333 ...
China: A CCP-Driven Global Threat Actor
The newly released IntSights analytics report, “The Dark Side of China: The Evolution of a Global Cyber Power,” makes the case that the country is a force to be reckoned with. The ...
Those Pesky Rus…
via outstanding reportage by BBC technology reporters Chris Fox & Leo Kelion, comes the tale of United Kingdom, Canadian and United States COVID-19 vaccine researchers and those troublesome Russian spies apparently hell-bent ...
PhantomLance – A Story of Statecraft, Software Espionage, Security Mismanagement and APT32
View fullsize Likely the most significant exposé of retail software security mismanagement this fiscal year - Wired New York-based Senior Writer Andy Greenberg's 'How Spies Snuck Malware Into the Google Play Store ...
Malware in Google Apps
Interesting story of malware hidden in Google Apps. This particular campaign is tied to the government of Vietnam. At a remote virtual version of its annual Security Analyst Summit, researchers from the ...
VICE: Iran Launched A Mobile App That Claimed To Diagnose Coronavirus
Image via Maxar via David Gilbert, writing at Vice comes this outstanding piece on the despots running Iran into the ground. Literally. '"Dear compatriots, before going to the hospital or health center, ...
Robert M. Lee’s & Jeff Haas’ Little Bobby Comics – ‘WEEK 264’
via the respected information security capabilities of Robert M. Lee & the superlative illustration talents of Jeff Haas at Little Bobby Comics. Permalink ...
Crypto AG Was Owned by the CIA
The Swiss cryptography firm Crypto AG sold equipment to governments and militaries around the world for decades after World War II. They were owned by the CIA: But what none of its ...
Police Surveillance Tools from Special Services Group
Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published. Motherboard received the brochure as part ...
