Tag: backdoors
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Cisco Talos Blog: UAT-8099: Chinese-speaking cybercrime group targets high-value IIS for SEO fraud
Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-8099-chinese-speaking-cybercrime-group-seo-fraud/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: UAT-8099: Chinese-speaking cybercrime group targets high-value IIS for SEO fraud Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos is disclosing details on UAT-8099, a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group mainly involved in SEO fraud and theft of high-value credentials, configuration files, and certificate data. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The provided text…
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Slashdot: Intel and AMD Trusted Enclaves, a Foundation For Network Security, Fall To Physical Attacks
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/01/229239/intel-and-amd-trusted-enclaves-a-foundation-for-network-security-fall-to-physical-attacks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Intel and AMD Trusted Enclaves, a Foundation For Network Security, Fall To Physical Attacks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Researchers have introduced two significant hardware attacks, Battering RAM and Wiretap, that compromise Intel SGX and AMD SEV-SNP trusted enclaves. These attacks exploit flaws in deterministic encryption…
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Slashdot: UK Once Again Demands Backdoor To Apple’s Encrypted Cloud Storage
Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/10/01/1719219/uk-once-again-demands-backdoor-to-apples-encrypted-cloud-storage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: UK Once Again Demands Backdoor To Apple’s Encrypted Cloud Storage Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The UK government’s recent order to Apple to create a backdoor for accessing encrypted cloud storage for British users raises significant privacy concerns and compliance challenges. This order comes amidst ongoing…
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The Register: Google warns China-linked spies lurking in ‘numerous’ enterprises since March
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/24/google_china_spy_report/ Source: The Register Title: Google warns China-linked spies lurking in ‘numerous’ enterprises since March Feedly Summary: Mandiant CTO anticipates ‘hearing about this campaign for the next one to two years’ Unknown intruders – likely China-linked spies – have broken into “numerous" enterprise networks since March and deployed backdoors, providing access for their…
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Cisco Talos Blog: How RainyDay, Turian and a new PlugX variant abuse DLL search order hijacking
Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/how-rainyday-turian-and-a-new-plugx-variant-abuse-dll-search-order-hijacking/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: How RainyDay, Turian and a new PlugX variant abuse DLL search order hijacking Feedly Summary: Talos discovered that a new PlugX variant’s features overlap with both the RainyDay and Turian backdoors AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Cisco Talos has identified a new variant of the PlugX…
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The Register: Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/popular_nodejs_utility_used_by/ Source: The Register Title: Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev Feedly Summary: Fast-glob is widely used in government, security lab says A Node.js utility used by thousands of public projects – and more than 30 Department of Defense ones – appears to have a sole…
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Schneier on Security: Encryption Backdoor in Military/Police Radios
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/encryption-backdoor-in-military-police-radios.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Encryption Backdoor in Military/Police Radios Feedly Summary: I wrote about this in 2023. Here’s the story: Three Dutch security analysts discovered the vulnerabilities—five in total—in a European radio standard called TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), which is used in radios made by Motorola, Damm, Hytera, and others. The…