Fake ransomware decryptor double-encrypts desperate victims' files

A fake decryptor for the STOP Djvu Ransomware is being distributed that lures already desperate people with the promise of free decryption. Instead of getting their files back for free, they are infected with another ransomware that makes their situation even worse.

While ransomware operations such as Maze, REvil, Netwalker, and DoppelPaymer get wide media attention due to their high worth victims, another ransomware called STOP Djvu is infecting more people then all of them combined on a daily basis.

With over 600 submissions a day to the ID-Ransomware ransomware identification service, STOP ransomware is the most actively distributed ransomware over the past year.

Emsisoft and Michael Gillespie had previously released a decryptor for older STOP Djvu variants, but newer variants cannot be decrypted for free.

If the ransomware is so common, you may be wondering why it doesn't get much attention?

The lack of attention is simply because the ransomware mostly affects home users infected through adware bundles pretending to be software cracks.

While downloading and installing cracks is not excusable, many of those who are infected simply cannot afford to pay a $500 ransom for a decryptor.

Double-encrypting someone's data with a second ransomware is just kicking someone while they are already down.

👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-ransomware-decryptor-double-encrypts-desperate-victims-files/

https://twitter.com/demonslay335/status/1268908281151586304

https://www.golem.de/news/zorab-schadsoftware-ransomware-tarnt-sich-als-entschluesselungs-tool-2006-148959.html

#zorab #Djvu #fake #ransomware #decryptor
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Honest Bill Gates confession

You could watch this with subtitles in YouTube (until it got censored)
https://youtu.be/zVeQW6QGZfQ
https://www.invidio.us/zVeQW6QGZfQ


⚠️ For serious info go here instead:
http://www.corbettreport.com/gates


#bill #gates #confession #why

The A1 Telekom Austria Hack - they came in through the web shells

On the 3rd of February 2020 I received an encrypted email on 3 of my email addresses from a person calling themself "Libertas" with the subject "Information for the public".

"I am writing to you today because you seem to be a IT security related guy from Austria with a brain. I hope this assumption is correct, otherwise please disregard this message.

I am writing concerning your local telecom company A1 Telekom. -Libertas"

At first I thought it's some conspiracy theorist who wants to publish something on my blog (they always do) but it was not one of these cases and I wasn't prepared to what they presented me.

Disclaimer:

After confirming the hack with A1 I was asked to postpone the publishing of this post until A1 has kicked the attackers out. I complied with their request so I wouldn't interfere with the ongoing investigation. Since I did not publish this post for months the whistleblower also contacted a journalist from Heise.de and we agreed to release our articles at the same time.

Since I have no way of checking the validity of individual statements made by the whistleblower, they could all be fabricated. I find them very plausible and many details of the email were confirmed by A1 but keep it in the back of your head that the statements of "Libertas" might be untrue or half-true until confirmed by A1 Telekom. Since I had the opportunity to talk to people from A1 I will add their statements in blue.

👉🏼 Read more:
https://blog.haschek.at/2020/the-a1-telekom-hack.html

👉🏼 Read more 🇩🇪:
https://www.golem.de/news/oesterreich-hackerangriff-bei-a1-telekom-2006-148984.html

#austria #telekom #hack #hacked #Libertas
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Government finally publishes NHS contracts with Palantir, Faculty and big tech
Article, Comments

#palantir #uk #gov #why

Fake porn videos can happen to anyone uploading their pics and videos to "social media" websites

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHHCrf2-x6w

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=hHHCrf2-x6w


#deepfakes #biometrics #facial #recognition #cloud #porn #why

Beware—20 Million Android Users Have Now Installed These ‘Malicious’ Photo Apps.

Another week, another report into fraudulent and dangerous apps tricking their way onto Google’s Play Store, luring tens of millions of unsuspecting users, generating lucrative returns for their operators. This time, though, there’s a twist. An insight into the industrial scale of these fraud factories, into the constant game of cat and mouse playing out with Google as the tech giant hunts down criminals on its Play Store.

Google’s initiatives to improve the security of its Play Store are well documented. There’s Play Protect and App Defense Alliance accelerator, there’s AI screening for permission abuse, and the Advanced Protection Program for those most at risk. But, despite all this, staggering volumes of malware still break through the net.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/06/09/beware-20-million-android-users-must-remove-these-malicious-camera-apps-now/

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PineTab 10.1" Linux tablet Launched for $99.99 with UBPorts OS

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/06/10/buy-pinetab-10-1-linux-tablet


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#pinetab #pine64 #tablet #ubports #alternatives

OAndBackupX

Modern fork of the open-source android app and data backup solution oandbackup. It has a modern interface and it supports AES 256 bit encryption out-of-the-box

The OAndBackupX project aims to bring the now outdated android app to the newest design philosophies and to make the app stable for the modern android versions.

This app is in active development and they have already modernized the UI. The efforts to make the app more usable is going on and they are looking for more people to involve and contribute to the project. In particular they are looking for someone experienced in rust, but any kind of contribution is welcomed.

Currently the app is available in their github releases and Izzydroid repos with an f-droid version coming soon.
Try the app.

Github releases
https://github.com/machiav3lli/oandbackupx/releases

Fdroid (Izzydroid repo)
https://android.izzysoft.de/repo/apk/com.machiav3lli.backup

Telegram group
https://t.me/OAndBackupX

App source
https://github.com/machiav3lli/oandbackupx


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#oandbackupx #oandbackup #backup

Pentagon Planned for a Bitcoin Rebellion

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2020/06/10/pentagon-documents-reveal-the-us-has-planned-for-a-bitcoin-rebellion

Comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23489982


#crypto #cryptocurrency #btc #bitcoin #pentagon #gov #rebellion

Zoom confirms Chinese Government asked it to suspend activists accounts over Tiananmen Square meetings

https://www.axios.com/zoom-chinese-government-tiananmen-fb1272bb-6c91-4c8f-b42e-5ced37d732d4.html

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/zoom-disables-accounts-exiled-chinese-dissidents-during-tiananmen-square-memorial

U.S. video conferencing company Zoom issued a statement on Thursday acknowledging that the Chinese government requested that it suspend the accounts of several U.S.- and Hong Kong-based Chinese activists for holding events commemorating the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

The big picture: Zoom claims that it only took action because the Chinese government informed the company that "this activity is illegal in China" and that meeting metadata showed "a significant number of mainland China participants." Zoom said it does not have the ability to block participants from a certain country, and so it made the decision to end some of the meetings and suspend the host accounts.


#zoom #china #gov #censorship #why

How to block Google ads

https://www.androidauthority.com/block-youtube-ads-trick-1128296

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/gzr3cq/fyi_you_can_bypass_youtube_ads_by_adding_a_dot


#google #yt #YouTube #ads

Facebook Pitched New Tool Allowing Employers to Suppress Words Like “Unionize" in Workplace Chat Product

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/11/facebook-workplace-unionize/

Europol uses Palantir

Since 2016, the European Police Agency has been using the "Gotham" software to evaluate mass data. Europol has signed a contract for 7.5 million euros with the company Capgemini in 2012, just over half of the money has already been spent. Palantir promoted the software at the "European Police Congress".

The police agency Europol in The Hague has been running the "Gotham" software of the US concern Palantir for several years. This is what the European Commission writes in its answer to a parliamentary question. The application was tested in 2016 within the framework of the "Fraternité" task force, which Europol set up after the attacks in France at the time. Palantir is also criticised for his close cooperation with the military and secret services in the USA.

Since mid-2017, "Gotham" has been in continuous operation, Europol uses it for "operational analysis". This enables investigators to calculate and visualize relationships between people, objects or the course of events. "Structured data", such as contact lists, tables from radio cell queries and travel histories, are linked with "unstructured data" such as photos or location data. This so-called mass data evaluation is intended to generate new investigative approaches.

👉🏼 Parliamentary request:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-000173-ASW_EN.html

👉🏼📺 Audit-Protokoll-Analysis with Palantir Gotham
https://t.me/BlackBox_Archiv/403

👉🏼 🇩🇪 Indications on the use of Facebook data by Palantir:
https://t.me/cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE/3147

👉🏼 Read more 🇩🇪:
https://netzpolitik.org/2020/europol-nutzt-palantir/

#eu #palantir #europol #Capgemini #surveillance
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No, I'm not installing your app to order food.

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/apps-track-you

Tracking is the new gold. Shops are following Google's example with their own tracking apps.

The outcry was loud when politicians started talking about corona tracing apps: Where is the privacy protection? How do we make sure that our personal data does not get into the wrong hands? Now, that we are sensitized against app tracking, do you know which apps track your every move, your browsing behavior, your shopping activities?

While everyone is talking about corona tracking apps and Google's extensive tracking, it is worrisome that no one talks about the tracking methods of every other app.


#tutanota #tracking #apps

Apple removes two podcast apps from China store after censorship demands

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/12/apple-removes-two-podcast-apps-from-china-store-after-censorship-demands

Apple has removed two podcast apps from its Chinese app store, following government pressure to censor content.

Pocket Casts and Castro were both pulled from distribution in China after the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) demanded that the apps stop allowing content that breached the country’s restrictive speech laws.


#Apple #China #gov #why #censorship

#ExposeBillGates Global Day of Action on June 13, 2020

A non-partisan coalition of alternative media organizations and activist groups are calling for a Global Day of Action to #ExposeBillGates and his control agenda.

In the first few months of 2020, billionaire Bill Gates has been promoted as the savior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although he is lauded as a hero Gates has been a force of disruption and shaky science. The truth is Bill Gates hides a darker agenda.

Gates has made numerous media appearances calling for extended lock downs, contact tracing surveillance, digital certificates to travel and work, and announced his intention to vaccinate 7 billion people. Gates’ family also has ties to discredited eugenics science and believes billionaires like him should help reduce the world’s population. (For those who might be new to this information we recommend watching The Bill Gates documentary series from The Corbett Report and/or reading The Bill Gates investigation from The Last American Vagabond Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)

It’s time to #ExposeBillGates and expose his agenda. Together we can shine the light on Gates’ true intentions and change the course of humanity.

WHEN: Join us on Saturday June 13, 2020 as we spread the word about Bill Gates’ agenda. We encourage everyone interested to organize and host documentary screenings, share articles, pass out flyers, drop banners, and share on social media using the hashtag #ExposeBillGates. We encourage everyone to share accurate and credible information about Gates’ goals. This is a non-partisan event and activists from all sides of the political spectrum are welcome.

To help spread the word about #ExposeBillGates Day please make this image your profile pic on all social media accounts. You can also download these flyers for sharing, editing, etc (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)


#ExposeBillGates #bill #gates