![]() ![]() The announcement yesterday was only from "Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?!", but i would consider all their games as on risk to contain that spyware if they choose to include it again, with or without announcement. My data is my own and you have no business making money of it. As a person and a gamer i refuse to be data mined. I make this thread to raise awareness of these user unfriendly marketing practices and data mining software that are common on the mobile market, and which are flooding over to our PC Games market. This should have no place in a full price PC game, and in no games if it were up to me. On their website they formulate it all in very harmless language, but the fact is that this is software from someone i don't trust and whom i never invited, which is looking at my data and running on my pc against my will. Stay 100% safe from malware and online threats.Red shell is a Spyware that tracks data of your PC and shares it with 3rd parties. They have simply restarted.”Īward winning antivirus protection from TotalAV. “The operators of these Iranian cyber-espionage campaigns seem to be completely unaffected by any counter-activities done by others, even though both campaigns had been revealed and even stopped in the past. “It is clear that the Iranian government is investing significant resources into cyber-operations,” said Yaniv Balmas, head of cyber-research at Check Point. Researchers said Infy’s most recent activity involved phishing emails (usually containing a malicious attachment) that were targeted at PC users. The Infy group is believed to have been in operation far longer than Domestic Kitten, with beginnings as early as 2007. The group’s successful infections were reported to have included dissidents, opposition forces, and persons of the Kurdish ethnic minority residing in Iran, GB, the US, Pakistan, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. Recording calls and other sounds tracking the device’s location collecting device identifiers stealing text messages and call logs stealing media files (including photos and videos), plus external storage files and exposing a list of other installed apps. Referred to as ‘Furball’ by researchers, this software was capable of carrying out various data-pilfering and snooping commands, such as: ‘Infy’ (AKA ‘Prince of Persia’), the second group, is accused of spying on personal and work computers used by dissidents in twelve countries, with sensitive data theft made possible once a user has been duped into opening a malicious email attachment.Īlthough Domestic Kitten’s operation was initially identified in 2018, the researchers believe there is evidence that the group had run at least ten campaigns which began a year prior in 2017.įour of these campaigns were still said to be in motion, with the most recent kicking off in November 2020 it was using an Iranian blog website, Telegram channels and text messages to bait people into installing its malicious software. The researchers reported that 1200 victims, residing in seven countries, had been targeted by the campaign, and that over 600 successful infections had taken place. Repackaging an existing version of an authentic video game found on the Google Play store offering a fake mobile-security app mimicking an app for a restaurant in Tehran providing a compromised app that publishes articles from a local news agency supplying an infected wallpaper app containing pro-Islamic State imagery masquerading as an Android app store to download further software. This was said to be achieved by a variety of means such as: ‘Domestic Kitten’ (AKA ‘APT-50’), is accused of duping users into downloading malicious software onto their smartphones. Researchers believe that the two groups involved were relying on new techniques to install spyware on their intended targets’ computers and smartphones, with the aim of compromising media files and call recordings. The target comprises over 1000 dissidents, with the campaign directed at individuals in twelve countries including the UK, US, and Iran itself. According to Check Point’s research team, Iran is carrying out a pair of cyber surveillance operations. ![]()
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