https://www.cyberscoop.com/nagorno-karabakh-azerbaijan-armenia-espionage-talos-hackers/
shows how digital espionage often coincides with bursts of violence in modern war.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/north-korea-has-tried-to-hack-11-officials-of-the-un-security-council/
consisted of a series of spear-phishing campaigns aimed at the Gmail accounts of UN officials.
The emails were designed to look like UN security alerts or requests for interviews from reporters, both designed to convince officials to access phishing pages or run malware files on their systems.
https://www.wired.com/story/universal-health-services-ransomware-attack/
a hospital and health care network with more than 400 facilities across the United States, Puerto Rico, and United Kingdom
UHS says it has 90,000 employees and treats about 3.5 million patients each year, making it one of the US’ largest hospital and health care networks.
“We are using paper for everything. All computers are completely shut down,”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54193764
The hacker explained in a blog post published on Wednesday that he was able to find Mr Abbott’s information because his booking reference was printed on the boarding pass. He was then able to log in to Mr Abbott’s booking and search through HTML code to find his passport number and phone number. The code also included conversations with Qantas staff about Mr Abbott.
https://www.securityweek.com/german-hospital-hacked-patient-taken-another-city-dies
what appears to have been a misdirected hacker attack caused the failure of IT systems at a major hospital in Duesseldorf, and a woman who needed urgent admission died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment.
can restore vision to the blind, using a combination of smartphone-style electronics and brain-implanted micro electrodes. The system has already been shown to work in preclinical studies and non-human trials on sheep, and researchers are now preparing for a first human clinical trial to take place in Melbourne.
https://nrkbeta.no/2020/09/15/over-700-nordmenn-kartlagt-av-kinesisk-selskap/
Et selskap med angivelige koblinger til kinesiske myndigheter har samlet informasjon om flere millioner mennesker verden over. NRK har fått tilgang til den norske databasen, som inneholder over 700 navn. Databasen avslører hvilke personer i Norge som er av interesse for kinesiske aktører, sier ekspert.
App mimicked a popular anti-government news site and collected location and device owner details.
following the enactment of a new national security law imposed by China.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/cheap-chinese-smartphones-malware
Preinstalled malware on low-cost Chinese phones has stolen data and money from some of the world’s poorest people.
Current security concerns about Chinese apps and hardware have largely focused on potential back doors in Huawei’s 5G equipment. More recently, people have focused on how user data collected by TikTok could be abused by the company and the Chinese government. But an overlooked and ongoing threat is the consistent presence of malware on cheap smartphones from Chinese manufacturers and how it exacts a digital tax on people with low incomes.
https://www.nrk.no/norge/vegselskapet-nye-veier-registrerer-mobiltelefonen-din-1.15133464
Vegselskapet Nye Veier registrerer mobiltelefonen til bilistane på fleire vegstrekningar. Datatilsynet tvilar på om personvernet er godt nok varetatt.
Analysane skjer ved at systemet registrerer blåtann-einingar som passerer dei ulike målepunkta. Når same eining har passert to målepunkt blir det rekna ut reisetid. Opplysningane blir analysert for å dokumentera korleis den gjennomsnittlege reisetida varierer frå time til time og dag til dag.
https://www.wired.com/story/star-witness-your-smart-speaker/
Requests are rising from law enforcement for information on the devices, which can include internet queries, food orders, and overheard conversations.
https://m-cacm.acm.org/news/246744-picking-locks-with-audio-technology/fulltext
researchers have discovered that the sound of your key being inserted into the lock gives attackers all they need to make a working copy of your front door key.
https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/dataangrep-mot-sykehuset-innlandet-1.15132961
Analyser viser at det kan ha blitt hentet ut personsensitive data.
https://source.wustl.edu/2020/08/researchers-one-step-closer-to-bomb-sniffing-cyborg-locusts/
they were able to hijack a locust’s olfactory system to both detect and discriminate between different explosive scents — all within a few hundred milliseconds of exposure.
https://apnews.com/270e93e985733a4d086c06a01375cea0
Production of Kirin chips designed by Huawei’s own engineers will stop Sept. 15 because they are made by contractors that need U.S. manufacturing technology, said Richard Yu, president of the company’s consumer unit. He said Huawei lacks the ability to make its own chips.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-indonesia-exclusive-idUSKCN2591ML
local moderators were instructed by a team from ByteDance’s Beijing headquarters to delete articles seen as “negative” about Chinese authorities