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10 Min Read SINGAPORE/BANGKOK (Reuters) -In the months before the Myanmar military’s Feb. 1 coup, the country’s telecom and internet service providers were ordered to install intercept spyware that would allow the army to eavesdrop on the communications of citizens, sources with direct knowledge of the plan told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator protests against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, February 19, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo The technology gives the military the power...

INSIGHT-How Myanmars military moved in on the telecoms sector to spy on citizens Reuters 2 days ago By Fanny Potkin and Poppy McPherson SINGAPORE/BANGKOK, May 19 (Reuters) - In the months before the Myanmar militarys Feb. 1 coup, the countrys telecom and internet service providers were ordered to install intercept spyware that would allow the army to eavesdrop on the communications of citizens, sources with direct knowledge of the plan told Reuters. The technology gives the military the power...

The vulnerability research ecosystem contains many different actors, all with different motivations, ranging from commercial to altruistic to everything in between.  Effectively and consistently interacting with the security community can prove challenging. Through the GitHub Security Lab (disclosure: I am a GitHub employee), weve observed many different approaches to receiving and triaging vulnerability reports, ranging from casual email interactions to fully ticketed bug tracking systems. Il...

March 4, 2021 Share An international advocacy group’s claim that the Vietnamese government has tapped hackers to target activists shows that the communist Southeast Asian state is widening the use of technology to quash its biggest opponents, experts believe. Ocean Lotus, a shadowy group suspected of working with the Vietnamese government, is “behind a sustained campaign of spyware attacks,” London-based Amnesty International said in a statement on February 24 following two years ...

Amnesty International: Hackers attacking Vietnam dissidents February 24, 2021 GMT BANGKOK (AP) — Amnesty International says it has found that a hacking group known as Ocean Lotus has been staging more spyware attacks on Vietnamese human rights activists in the latest blow to freedom of speech in the communist-ruled country. The human rights group said Wednesday that Amnesty Tech’s Security Lab found evidence of the hacking attempts in phishing emails sent to two dissidents, one in the Phil...

AMNESTY International says it has found that a hacking group known as Ocean Lotus has been staging more spyware attacks on Vietnamese human rights activists, in the latest blow to freedom of speech in the communist-ruled country. The human rights group said on Wednesday that Amnesty Tech’s Security Lab found evidence of the hacking attempts in phishing emails sent to two dissidents, one in the Philippines and one in Germany. Cybersecurity firms earlier identified hacking attempts by Ocean Lot...

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Vietnam joins the ranks of governments using spyware to crack down on human-rights defenders. Human-rights activists are being targeted by cyberattacks as part of a wider effort by the Vietnamese state to censor anyone speaking out against the government, Amnesty International’s Security Lab alleges. Ocean Lotus, a well-known threat actor dating back to 2013, is behind the spyware campaign against human-rights defenders and has long been identified as having goals “aligned with the Vietname...

Human rights defenders subjected to spyware attacks Ocean Lotus group suspected of having link to Vietnamese government Notorious hacking group

Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. If you’re relying on Apple’s and Google’s app store rules to keep your location data safe from companies that sell it to the government, you might want to rethink that policy. But if you’re relying on the legal system to stop government agencies from buying that data, you might be in luck — maybe. A new Treasury D...