Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 7/8/23
Russia's new surveillance cottage industry, How the FBI took down Hive, America's defense and intel agencies are luring Israel's spyware workers, How the FBI queries Americans under Sec. 702
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Cracking Down on Dissent, Russia Seeds a Surveillance Supply Chain
Aaron Krolik, Paul Mozur, and Adam Satariano in the New York Times delve into how since the start of the war in Ukraine, the rise of a cottage industry of tech contractors has given the police and Russia’s Federal Security Service, or the FSB, access to surveillance capabilities focused on the day-to-day use of phones and websites, including technologies that can track encrypted app use.
One feature of NetBeholder harnesses a technique known as deep-packet inspection, which is used by telecom service providers to analyze where their traffic is going. Aki…
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