• Minneapolis police department website was temporarily taken offline over the weekend.
  
• A database of email addresses and passwords claiming to be hacked from the police department's system is also in circulation. Nevertheless, experts suspect those are outdated data only.
  
• A page on the website of a minor United Nations agency has been turned into a memorial for Mr Floyd, replacing its contents with the message "Rest in Power, George Floyd", along with an Anonymous logo.
  
• Anonymous activists are also circulating years-old accusations against President Trump, taken from documents in a civil court case that was voluntarily dismissed by the accuser before it went to trial.
  

BBC Wrote:For developers, Android 11 has a tonne of new capabilities for your apps, like enhancements for foldables and 5G, call-screening APIs [application program interfaces], new media and camera capabilities, machine learning, and more.

CyberScoop Wrote:When Sandworm exploits the vulnerability, victim machines download and execute a shell script from a Sandworm-controlled domain, according to the NSA. The script then works to disable network security settings, add privileged users, and execute an additional script to allow further exploitation.
When the patch for the vulnerability was issued last year, there was “no evidence” anyone was actively exploiting it, according to Exim. Within weeks of the patch being issued, the Russian military hackers began their onslaught.

BBC Wrote:In a statement, it said the apps were "prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order".
In total, 59 different apps were banned - including popular messaging app WeChat.
It follows weeks of escalating tensions along the disputed border between the two countries.

BBC Wrote:India's Ministry of Information Technology said it was banning the 59 Chinese apps after receiving "many complaints from various sources" about apps that were "stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users' data in an unauthorised manner".
"The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defence of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures," the ministry said.

CyberScoop Wrote:Law enforcement agencies in France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom on Thursday announced hundreds of arrests of alleged drug dealers and other criminals in a major bust made possible by cracking an encrypted phone network.
European police officials said they broke into the platform of EncroChat, a bespoke encrypted messaging service, in April and had been quietly reading the messages ever since.
The Dutch police claimed they were able to read 20 million messages on EncroChat since April. That led to the seizure of more than 17,000 pounds of cocaine. In the United Kingdom, 746 people were arrested and more than $67 million in cash seized, officials said.
EncroChat had promised its users anonymity by never storing decryption keys on its servers. A “kill code’” allowed phones to be wiped remotely...

CyberScoop Wrote:Security researchers tell CyberScoop that data show a rise in invasive surveillance software known as stalkerware — applications that can spy on partners’ texts, calls, social media use and geolocation information — since the coronavirus pandemic began, despite the fact that abusers are much more likely to be sharing the same living space as their victims.
Three antivirus companies tracking stalkerware globally told CyberScoop they saw an increase in stalkerware detections just after governments at all levels put social distancing measures in place. Between January and May, for instance, California-based Malwarebytes and Germany-based Avira said stalkerware detections on their respective customers’ devices spiked by 190% and 99%, respectively. Slovakia-based ESET also found stalkerware detections rose from the fourth quarter of 2019 to the first quarter of this year.

CyberScoop Wrote:Amnesty International said Sunday its security team found evidence of abuse on a Moroccan journalist’s cell phone that can be tied back to spyware developed by NSO Group.

The journalist, Omar Radi, was targeted by surveillance software capable of tracking texts, calls, emails, camera, and more — just days after NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance software company, announced it would stop its products from being used to perpetuate human rights abuses, according to Amnesty International.

CyberScoop Wrote:BIG-IP is among the most popular networking gear in use today in government systems, internet service providers and cloud computing data centers.
Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI), which can enable load balancers, firewalls, rate limiters and web traffic shaping systems. Attackers who exploit the weakness can execute arbitrary system commands, create files, delete files or disable services.
The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency also advised administrators to update their F5 systems on July 4.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs Wrote:If you didn’t patch by this morning, assume [you are] compromised. Keep patching and check logs.

CyberScoop Wrote:The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has designated Chinese telecommunication providers Huawei and ZTE as national security risks, a decision that officially prohibits American phone companies from purchasing their equipment with government subsidies.

CyberScoop Wrote:The companies are subject to a Chinese law that requires firms to provide authorities with sensitive data, even if they’re unwilling to do so.

BBC Wrote:The government has received a report into Huawei that is likely to change its policy over the Chinese firm's role in the UK's telecoms networks.
Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden said GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre had delivered its findings.
NCSC is believed to have said it can no longer assure the security of Huawei's products because of new US sanctions.
China's ambassador to the UK has warned that if the country got rid of Huawei, it would send out a wider message about its openness to foreign investment.
The risk is that as a consequence Huawei would have to start sourcing chips from elsewhere, which UK security officials might not be able to properly vet.

CyberScoop Wrote:Like Android-focused surveillance kits before them, the malicious software is capable of stealing sensitive data on target phones and turning them into listening devices, according to mobile security firm Lookout, which made the discovery.
Some of the hacking tools have been in use for more than five years, but Lookout pieced them together into a vast spying effort tied to the Chinese government.
The Chinese government has detained more than 1 million ethnic minorities, many of them Uighur Muslims, in prison camps in the name of “counterterrorism” and security — repression that human rights groups have denounced. The surveillance campaigns tracked by Lookout extend far beyond China. The hacking kits appear to have been used against people in 14 countries, the researchers said, from Pakistan to Turkey. Most of them are Muslim-majority and on a list of “sensitive countries” where Chinese authorities closely track the movements of travelers from Xinjiang.

CyberScoop Wrote:A sweeping set of surveillance campaigns has hit Google Chrome users, leading to nearly 33 million downloads of malicious software in the last three months.
The researchers believe the unidentified hackers used Chrome extensions and other malicious tools — along with domains issued by a single registrar — to spy on computer users in sectors such as oil and gas, finance and health care.
U.S. government contractors were among those targeted.

BBC Wrote:Kim Libreri, an award-winning visual effects artist based in Northern California, has worked on movies including Artificial Intelligence and War of the Planet of the Apes.
For nine years he has been working with a piece of technology better known for computer games, in particular the smash-hit Fortnite.
The Unreal Engine, owned by Epic Games, provides the building blocks and tools that a computer game developer needs, but is increasingly an attractive technology for TV and film producers.

AP News Wrote:The data, dating back to 1996, include emails, audio and video files and police and FBI intelligence reports. DDoSecrets founder Emma Best said the data, dubbed “BlueLeaks,” comes from more than 200 agencies. It has been stripped of references to sexual assault cases and references to children, but names, phone numbers and emails of police officers were not redacted.

BBC Wrote:This morning's email to some of our employees was sent in error. There is no change to our policies right now with regard to TikTok.
But earlier on Friday, a memo sent to staff seen by multiple news outlets stated that the app must be removed from mobile devices.

BBC Wrote:The US Senate Commerce committee has demanded Twitter brief it about the incident next week.
Twitter said it was a "co-ordinated" attack targeting its employees "with access to internal systems and tools".
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre said its officers had "reached out" to the tech firm.

Tech Crunch Wrote:China has the largest monitoring system in the world. There are some 170 million CCTV cameras across the country, and that’s tipped to grow more than three-fold with 400 million more set to be installed by 2020.

CyberScoop Wrote:Twitter says the people who took over the accounts of high-profile users in order to launch a bitcoin scam used tactics focused on phones to trick company employees into giving them access.

CyberScoop Wrote:EU officials announced Thursday they would enact restrictive measures against the people it deemed responsible for the WannaCry ransomware outbreak in 2017, the NotPetya campaign and Operation Cloud Hopper, a Chinese cyber-espionage effort. Penalties include a travel ban, asset freeze and prohibit people and organizations in the EU from “making funds available” to the sanctioned individuals and entities.