Others may have had malicious programs installed physically when they were away from their phones.The GDGS did not immediately comment on the report. and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, said the haul, which includes nearly half a million intercepted text messages, had simply been left online by hackers linked to Lebanon's General Directorate of General Security. The 49-page document lays out how spies used a network of bogus websites and malicious smartphone apps - such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Threema and Signal - to steal passwords or pry into communications, eavesdropping on conversations and capturing at least 486,000 text messages. Still, more may have been lured into compromising their devices by a set of apparently fake Facebook profiles set up to look like attractive young Lebanese women.Electronic Frontier Foundation Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin said the find was remarkable, explaining that she could think of only one other example where researchers were able to pin state-backed hackers to a specific building.Discoveries of state-sponsored cyber espionage campaigns have become commonplace as countries in the Middle East and Asia scramble to match the digital prowess of the United States, China, Russia and other major powers. In 2015, for example, the internet watchdog group Citizen Lab published evidence that GDGS had tapped FinFisher, a spyware merchant whose tools have been used to hack into the computers of several African and Middle Eastern dissidents. "We were able to take advantage of the extraordinarily poor operational security," she said. Some victims were tricked into visiting the websites or downloading the rogue apps by booby-trapped messages sent over WhatsApp, the report said.Other data also points to the intelligence agency: the report said the internet protocol addresses of the spyware's control panels mapped to an area just south of the GDGS building. It was while pulling on that string that investigators stumbled across the open server full of photos, conversations and intercepted text messages - as well as the link to Lebanon.Mobile security firm Lookout, Inc.An EFF report on the Kazakh campaign published in 2016 caught the attention of # researchers at Lookout, who swept through the company's vast store of smartphone data to find a sample of the smartphone surveillance software mentioned in the write-up. Literally everything," Flossman said.The report said the suspected test devices all seemed to have connected to a WiFi network active at the intersection of Beirut's Pierre Gemayel and Damascus Streets, the location of the bulky, sandstone-coloured high-rise that houses Lebanon's General Directorate of General Security.Lebanon has historically been a hub for espionage and Lebanese spies have a documented interest in surveillance software.(photo:AP) A major hacking operation tied to one of the most powerful security and intelligence agencies in Lebanon has been exposed after careless spies left hundreds of gigabytes of intercepted data exposed to the open internet..鈥?It was everything. Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.Notably, their report drew on data generated by suspected test devices - a set of similarly configured phones that appear to have been used to try out the spy software - to potentially pinpoint the hackers' exact address.The hacking campaign exposed Thursday by EFF and Lookout - which they dub "Dark Caracal" - was discovered in the wake of an entirely different cyber espionage campaign targeting Kazakh journalists and lawyers.Half a million intercepted messages, had simply been left online by hackers linked to Lebanon's General Directorate of General Security. But Lookout and EFF's report is unusual for the amount of data uncovered about the spying campaign's victims and its operators

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This also indicates that the company might not showcase the device at CES 2018. Samsung Galaxy S8 It’s that time of the year when we across a lot of rumours and half baked reports associated to Samsung’s upcoming flagship smartphone.8-inch Infinity Display panels from the present S8 lineup.The S9 will retain xps foam Suppliers the design of the S8 but have completely new innards. It will retain the 5. The Galaxy S9 will have 4GB of RAM whereas the S9 + will sport 6GB of RAM

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The criminal probe was launched after it emerged that cladding, used on Grenfell Tower is banned in the US, and that it would have cost just 5,000 pounds extra for the contractors to apply a fire-resistant version of paneling to the building, according to a report by the Independent.Meanwhile, the police have said that some of the dead, from the devastating blaze may never be identified, as officers warned that the painful process of retrieving the victims could take months. 

It is thought that contractors chose the cheaper, more combustible version for Grenfell, which has a polyethylene core and is known as PE.The panels, believed to have been fitted to the outside of Grenfell Tower, are produced by US company Reynobond, which makes three types of panel: one with a flammable plastic core and two with fire-resistant cores.  

The Police have launched a criminal inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire incident that has killed 17 people so far and injured 30 others, 15 of whom are critical.The criminal probe was launched after it emerged that cladding, used on Grenfell Tower is banned in the US.Among those still missing are entire families, a six-month-old baby, a young Italian couple, and a five-year-old boy, reports the Guardian

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An equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the US military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen," Smith wrote.England's National Health Service said 47 organisations providing care had been hit and on Sunday afternoon seven hospitals were continuing to divert patients from the emergency room.European policing and security agencies said the fallout from a ransomware attack could deepen as people return for another work week.The warning was echoed by Britain's National Cyber Security Centre: "As a new working week begins it is likely, in the UK and elsewhere, that further cases of ransomware may come to light, possibly at a significant scale.

Germany's rail operator Deutsche Bahn said its station display panels were affected.Security firm Digital Shadows said on Sunday that transactions totalling $32,000 had taken place through Bitcoin addresses used by the ransomware.He warned governments against stockpiling such vulnerabilities and said instead they should report them to manufacturers -- not sell, store or exploit them, lest they fall into the wrong hands."'Ooops' message, $300 ransom The attack looks like this: images appear on victims' screens demanding payment of $300 (275 euros) in the virtual currency Bitcoin, saying: "Ooops, your files have been encrypted!"Payment is demanded within three days or the price is doubled, and if none is received within seven days the locked files will be deleted, according to the screen message.

Bitcoin, the world's most-used virtual currency, allows anonymous transactions via heavily encrypted codes.Brad Smith, Microsoft's president and chief legal officer, said in a blog post Sunday that it was in fact the NSA that developed the code being used in the attack.European policing and security agencies said the fallout from a ransomware attack that has already crippled more than 200,000 computers around the world could deepen as people return for another work week.Banks, trains and automobilesSymantec said the majority of organisations affected were in Europe.The attack therefore spread faster than previous, smaller-scale ransomware attacks.

The indiscriminate attack began Friday and struck banks, hospitals and government agencies, exploiting known vulnerabilities in older Microsoft computer operating systems."I'm worried about how the numbers will continue to grow when people go to work and turn on their machines on Monday," he said.A hacking group called Shadow Brokers released the malware in April, claiming to have discovered the flaw from the NSA, Kaspersky said.. A computer technician connects a computer into a network server in an office building in Washington, DC on May 13, 2017 Governments and computer experts girded Monday for a possible worsening of the global cyberattack that has hit more than 150 countries, as Microsoft warned against stockpiling vulnerabilities like the one at the heart of the crisis."

The attack is unique, according to Europol, because it combines ransomware with a worm function, meaning once one machine is infected, the entire internal network is scanned and other vulnerable machines are infected.Experts and governments alike warn against ceding to the demands and Wainwright said few victims so far had been paying up.

The culprits used a digital code believed to have been developed by the US National Security Agency # -- and subsequently leaked as part of a document dump, according to researchers at the Moscow-based computer security firm Kaspersky Lab.We've never seen anything like this," the head of the European Union's policing agency told Britain's ITV television, calling its reach "unprecedented"."

The governments of the world should treat this attack as a wake up call.Europol's Wainwright said few banks in Europe had been affected, having learned through the "painful experience of being the number one target of cyber crime" the value of having the latest cyber security in place.US package delivery giant FedEx, European car factories, Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, Britain's health service and Germany's Deutsche Bahn rail network were among those hit.Europol executive director Rob Wainwright said the situation could worsen on Monday when workers return to their offices after the weekend and log on.Universities in China, Italy and Greece were also hit.Wainwright described the cyberattack as an "escalating threat"

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