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DeepSeek faces ban from Apple, Google app stores in Germany | Reuters
DeepSeek faces ban from Apple, Google app stores in Germany | Reuters
Germany's data protection commissioner has asked Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from their app stores in the country due to concerns about data protection, following a similar crackdown elsewhere. Germany says DeepSeek illegally transfers user data to China Apple and Google must now review Germany's request * Italy blocked DeepSeek app earlier this year FRANKFURT, June 27 (Reuters) - Germany's data protection commissioner has asked Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab and Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab to remove Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from their app stores in the country due to concerns about data protection, following a similar crackdown elsewhere. Commissioner Meike Kamp said in a statement on Friday that she had made the request because DeepSeek illegally transfers users' personal data to China. The two U.S. tech giants must now review the request promptly and decide whether to block the app in Germany, she added, though her office has not set a precise timeframe. Google said it had received the notice and was reviewing it. DeepSeek did not respond to a request for comment. Apple was not immediately available for comment. According to its own privacy policy, opens new tab, DeepSeek stores numerous pieces of personal data, such as requests to its AI programme or uploaded files, on computers in China. "DeepSeek has not been able to provide my agency with convincing evidence that German users' data is protected in China to a level equivalent to that in the European Union," Kamp said. "Chinese authorities have far-reaching access rights to personal data within the sphere of influence of Chinese companies," she added.
#reuters#EN#2025#Germany#Italy#DeepSeek#legal#China
·reuters.com·
DeepSeek faces ban from Apple, Google app stores in Germany | Reuters
Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Proliferating Spyware Operations
Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Proliferating Spyware Operations
In our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company, Paragon Solutions, we begin to untangle multiple threads connected to the proliferation of Paragon's mercenary spyware operations across the globe. This report includes an infrastructure analysis of Paragon’s spyware product, called Graphite; a forensic analysis of infected devices belonging to members of civil society; and a closer look at the use of Paragon spyware in both Canada and Italy.
#citizenlab#EN#2025#investigation#Paragon#spyware#Canada#Italy#Graphite#mercenary
·citizenlab.ca·
Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Proliferating Spyware Operations
Cyber attack on Italy's Foreign Ministry, airports claimed by pro-Russian hacker group
Cyber attack on Italy's Foreign Ministry, airports claimed by pro-Russian hacker group
Hackers targeted around ten official websites in Italy on Saturday, including the websites of the Foreign Ministry and Milan's two airports, putting them out of action temporarily, the country's cyber security agency said. The pro-Russian hacker group Noname057(16) claimed the cyber attack on Telegram, saying Italy's "Russophobes get a well deserved cyber response".
#reuters#EN#2024#Noname057(16)#Italy#DDoS
·reuters.com·
Cyber attack on Italy's Foreign Ministry, airports claimed by pro-Russian hacker group
APT41 Has Arisen From the DUST
APT41 Has Arisen From the DUST
  • In collaboration with Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), Mandiant has observed a sustained campaign by the advanced persistent threat group APT41 targeting and successfully compromising multiple organizations operating within the global shipping and logistics, media and entertainment, technology, and automotive sectors. The majority of organizations were operating in Italy, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. APT41 successfully infiltrated and maintained prolonged, unauthorized access to numerous victims' networks since 2023, enabling them to extract sensitive data over an extended period. APT41 used a combination of ANTSWORD and BLUEBEAM web shells for the execution of DUSTPAN to execute BEACON backdoor for command-and-control communication. Later in the intrusion, APT41 leveraged DUSTTRAP, which would lead to hands-on keyboard activity. APT41 used publicly available tools SQLULDR2 for copying data from databases and PINEGROVE to exfiltrate data to Microsoft OneDrive
#Mandiant#EN#2024#APT41#Italy#Spain#Taiwan#Thailand#Turkey#UK#dustpan#BEACON#DUSTTRAP
·cloud.google.com·
APT41 Has Arisen From the DUST
Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against popular platforms
Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against popular platforms
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) tracks actors involved in information operations (IO), government backed attacks and financially motivated abuse. For years, TAG has been tracking the activities of commercial spyware vendors to protect users. Today, we actively track more than 30 vendors with varying levels of sophistication and public exposure selling exploits or surveillance capabilities to government backed actors. These vendors are enabling the proliferation of dangerous hacking tools, arming governments that would not be able to develop these capabilities in-house. While use of surveillance technologies may be legal under national or international laws, they are often found to be used by governments to target dissidents, journalists, human rights workers and opposition party politicians.
#GoogleTAG#EN#2023#0-days#Spyware#Italy#Malaysia#Kazakhstan#CVE-2022-42856#Webkit#Samsung#CVE-2022-4262#CVE-2023-0266
·blog.google·
Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against popular platforms
An infostealer comes to town: Dissecting a highly evasive malware targeting Italy
An infostealer comes to town: Dissecting a highly evasive malware targeting Italy
Cluster25 researchers analyzed several campaigns (also publicly reported by CERT-AGID) that used phishing emails to spread an InfoStealer malware written in .NET through an infection chain that involves Windows Shortcut (LNK) files and Batch Scripts (BAT). Taking into account the used TTPs and extracted evidence, the attacks seem perpetrated by the same adversary (internally named AUI001).
#cluster25#EN#2022#infostealer#Italy#phishing#Campaigns#analysis#Alibaba2044#IoCs
·blog.cluster25.duskrise.com·
An infostealer comes to town: Dissecting a highly evasive malware targeting Italy
Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against popular platforms
Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against popular platforms
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) tracks actors involved in information operations (IO), government backed attacks and financially motivated abuse. For years, TAG has been tracking the activities of commercial spyware vendors to protect users. Today, we actively track more than 30 vendors with varying levels of sophistication and public exposure selling exploits or surveillance capabilities to government backed actors. These vendors are enabling the proliferation of dangerous hacking tools, arming governments that would not be able to develop these capabilities in-house. While use of surveillance technologies may be legal under national or international laws, they are often found to be used by governments to target dissidents, journalists, human rights workers and opposition party politicians.
#GoogleTAG#EN#2023#0-days#Spyware#Italy#Malaysia#Kazakhstan#CVE-2022-42856#Webkit#Samsung#CVE-2022-4262#CVE-2023-0266
·blog.google·
Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against popular platforms
An infostealer comes to town: Dissecting a highly evasive malware targeting Italy
An infostealer comes to town: Dissecting a highly evasive malware targeting Italy
Cluster25 researchers analyzed several campaigns (also publicly reported by CERT-AGID) that used phishing emails to spread an InfoStealer malware written in .NET through an infection chain that involves Windows Shortcut (LNK) files and Batch Scripts (BAT). Taking into account the used TTPs and extracted evidence, the attacks seem perpetrated by the same adversary (internally named AUI001).
#cluster25#EN#2022#infostealer#Italy#phishing#Campaigns#analysis#Alibaba2044#IoCs
·blog.cluster25.duskrise.com·
An infostealer comes to town: Dissecting a highly evasive malware targeting Italy