‼️ China's largest cybersecurity firm, Knownsec, was breached, exposing details of China's state cyber operations.
The data includes cyberweapon documentation, internal hacking tool source code, and global target lists covering over 20 countries, including Japan, Vietnam, and India.
A spreadsheet lists 80 hacked foreign organizations, plus evidence of 95 GB of stolen Indian immigration data and 3 TB of call records from South Korean mobile operator LG U Plus.
One of the documents mention a malicious power bank, disguised as a charging device.
Knownsec is key to China's cybersecurity, providing advanced defense and offensive capabilities, including espionage tools.
A thread with their tools 🧵
ZoomEye
A global search engine similar to Shodan or Censys, lists vulnerabilities for each host. It claims to scan the entire IPv4 address range in 7-10 days.
Windows Trojan / Remote control
KRACK attack
An explanation of how to perform a KRACK attack on a device connected to a network.
Passive radar
A tool called "Passive Radar," a PCAP analyzer, is used for quick asset mapping tasks, such as those required by military clients.
Un-Mail
A tool that claims to break email accounts via XSS.
Knownsec also provides tools and services for data collection as can be seen in the slides.
Slides also indicate collecting data and mapping critical digital infrastructure of adversarial nations.
It's interesting to note the listing of critical Taiwanese edge devices. Reports confirm nation-state actors are attacking these devices.
Critical digital infrastructure in India: finance, military, industry, political parties.
This screenshot shows where opportunities exist for a company like KnownSec to add value, including internet surveillance, building command centers, providing big data analysis platforms for various departments, or network construction for specific public security bureaus.
Building digital command centers for the Ministry of Public Security and how the company supports Public Security in conducting "special investigations"
‼️ Meet the personal hacker who worked for Epstein
His name was redacted, but based on what was previously known:
👉 Sold his company to CrowdStrike in 2017
👉 Took a VP role at the company after the acquisition
👉 Born in Calabria
We can now confirm he is Vincenzo Iozzo.
His LinkedIn shows his company "Iperlane" was sold to CrowdStrike and that he was also a board member of Black Hat, hence he invited Jeffrey to join him at Black Hat.
He is currently CEO of SlashID and likes to post about Shinyhunters on LinkedIn.
He is also one of the authors of iOS Hacker's Handbook.
‼️A security researcher from Australia built a mass surveillance tool by scraping Waze reports and tracking the users behind them
He successfully linked usernames to real-world identities, allowing him to pinpoint where individuals live and work.
Waze has since responded by removing the feature that exposed usernames.
He was able to deanonymize custom usernames by using OSINT tools.
After he has a username he can plot it on a map an see where that user has been it's entire lifetime. Leading to the disclosure of:
- The general area where they likely live (cluster of morning reports.
- The area where they likely work (cluster of daytime reports)
- Their regular commute routes
- Their approximate schedule
‼️A German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage
This happened during the recent CCC conference.
Martha had infiltrated the site, ran her own AI chatbot to extract as much information from users as possible, and downloaded every profile. She also uncovered the owner of the site. She has published all of the data.
I found this video of “Marta Root” on her YouTube channel explaining what she did.
A chart showing where users of the white supremacist dating site come from.
‼️🇮🇱 Smartphones worldwide were silently infected with Israeli malware via malicious ads
Simply viewing their ads was enough to get infected.
Surveillance company Intellexa gained full access to cameras, microphones, chat apps, emails, GPS locations, photos, files, and browsing activity.
Internal leaked company documents, sales and marketing materials, as well as training videos from the “Intellexa Leaks” investigation provide a never-before-seen glimpse into the internal operations of a mercenary spyware company focused on exploiting vulnerabilities in mobile devices to enable targeted surveillance attacks on human rights defenders, journalists, and members of civil society.
In an attempt to hide the spyware operator's identity, all data is relayed through a chain of anonymization servers called the “CNC Anonymization Network.”
Since the spyware relies on browser exploits, the operator must trick the victim into opening the malicious link; if the link is not opened, infection fails.
Each time a one-click attack link is sent, it risks exposing the operator, as a suspicious target may share it with forensic experts, revealing the attack and potentially the operator.
‼️🇰🇵 Meet North Korean recruiter 'Aaron,' who infiltrates Western companies by using AI and posing as a remote IT worker using stolen or rented identities.
He was lured into a sandbox by researchers, who observed the wild APT in a controlled setting to see what he would do.
He wanders around the web sending messages to people like "I’d like to offer your an opportunity that I think could be interesting.".. Turns out @MauroEldritch likes opportunities.
Aaron then asks the "legit" worker to download AnyDesk.