An employee of controversial surveillance vendor NSO Group abused access to the company’s powerful hacking technology to target a love interest, Motherboard has learned. The previously unreported news is a serious abuse of NSO’s products, which are typically used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The episode also highlights that potent surveillance technology such as Read more about NSO Employee Abused Phone Hacking Tech to Target a Love Interest[…]

A vulnerability existed in Microsoft’s Slack for Suits tool, Teams, that could have let a remote attacker take over accounts by simply sending a malicious GIF, infosec researchers claim. The pwn-with-GIF vuln was possible, said Cyberark, thanks to two compromisable Microsoft subdomains along with a carefully crafted animated image file. Although it was a responsibly Read more about We could have pwned Microsoft Teams with a GIF, claims Israeli infosec outfit[…]

In a blunder described as “astonishing and worrying,” Sheffield City Council’s automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR) system exposed to the internet 8.6 million records of road journeys made by thousands of people, The Register can reveal. The ANPR camera system’s internal management dashboard could be accessed by simply entering its IP address into a web browser. Read more about Nine million logs of Brits’ road journeys spill onto the internet from password-less number-plate camera dashboard[…]

Financial Times reporter Mark Di Stefano allegedly spied on Zoom meetings at rival newspapers the Independent and the Evening Standard to get scoops on staff cuts and furloughs due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from the UK’s Independent. And Di Stefano he did a comedically bad job of covering his tracks. Di Read more about Journalist Allegedly Spied on Zoom Meetings of Rivals in Hilariously Dumb Ways[…]

IBM Data Risk Manager offers security-focused vulnerability scanning and analytics, to help businesses identify weaknesses in their infrastructure. At least some versions of the Linux-powered suite included four exploitable holes, identified and, at first, privately disclosed by security researcher Pedro Ribeiro at no charge. Three are considered to be critical, and one is high risk. Read more about IBM No-auth remote root exec exploit in Data Risk Manager (an enterprise security program!) drops after Big Blue snubs bug report[…]

One year ago, two Australian hackers found themselves on an eight-hour flight to Singapore to attend a live hacking competition sponsored by Dropbox. At 30,000 feet, with nothing but a slow internet connection, they decided to get a head start by hacking Zoom, a videoconferencing service that they knew was used by many Dropbox employees. Read more about Zoom’s Security Woes Were No Secret to Business Partners Like Dropbox – in 2018![…]

Bitdefender researchers have recently found spearphishing campaigns, either impersonating a well-known Egyptian engineering contractor or a shipment company, dropping the Agent Tesla spyware Trojan. The impersonated engineering contractor (Enppi – Engineering for Petroleum and Process Industries) has experience in onshore and offshore projects in oil and gas, with attackers abusing its reputation to target the Read more about Oil & Gas Spearphishing Campaigns Drop Agent Tesla Spyware in Advance of Historic OPEC+ Deal[…]