The opposition from the Ukrainian forces is as strong as ever. Hacktivists all around the world continue to hack Russian institutions and publish their files and emails. The hacktivist collective launched a service to prank-call Russian government officials. Two random Russian officials are put on a call with each other by a new website. The group that created the tool hopes that it will cause some confusion and annoy those in Moscow.
According to a new research from the Threat Analysis Group, there is a market for spyware that targets devices with zero-day exploits. The North Macedonian firm Cytrox has been used by state-sponsored actors in Egypt, Armenia, Greece, and other countries. Five previously unknown exploits and unpatched vulnerabilities have been used by the malware. More than 30 firms around the world are being tracked by researchers at Google.
Academics at Germany's Technical University of Darmstadt have figured out a way to track an Apple device even when it is turned off. When you switch your phone off it doesn't fully power down, instead chips inside run in a low-power mode. The researchers were able to run a program that could track the phone. The method is not likely to be a threat in the real world as it first requires jail breaking the targeted iPhone, which has become harder to do in recent years.
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The nation can't trade with other countries or bring in money from outside its borders because of the international sanctions. In the last few years, the state-affiliated hackers in North Korea have been able to raid cryptocurrencies platforms and rob banks. The FBI, the US Department of State, and the US Treasury have warned that thousands of North Korea's IT workers have been freelancing at businesses around the world and sending money home. The officials say that many of them are based in China or Russia. The risks of hiring North Korean workers range from theft of intellectual property, data, and funds to reputational harm and legal consequences.
The US Department of Justice will no longer prosecute security researchers under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The anti-hacking law has been criticized for its broad scope and potential to be abused by prosecutors. While the DOJ's explicit shift in policy will be welcomed by researchers, it doesn't go far enough and can put legitimate researchers at risk.
The gang has had a bad few months. Thousands of its internal messages and innermost secrets were published online after it supported the war in Ukraine. Researchers say that the gang has stopped targeting victims, including Costa Rica's government. The group's members are splintering off into other groups, according to Advanced Intel. The US government offered a fifteen million dollar reward for information about the group.
Canada has become the final country in the Five Eyes intelligence group to ban the use of equipment from China'sHuawei in its 5G networks. The ban also includes another Chinese telecom firm. The Canadian government decided to ban Canadian firms from buying new 4G and 5G equipment because of national security concerns. They have to remove all 5G equipment by the summer of 2024, and 4G equipment by the end of 2027.
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