Risky Bulletin Newsletter
July 15, 2022
Risky Biz News: Chinese APT targeted White House reporters ahead of Jan. 6 insurrection
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US senators propose crackdown on shady VPNs: Two Democrat senators have asked the FTC to look into the deceptive practices of VPN companies. The two want the FTC to look at how VPN companies use false or misleading claims about user anonymity in their ads, the sale of user traffic data to third parties, and if the companies disclose when they share user data with law enforcement agencies.
Iran puts the entire country in Safe Search mode: Several Iranian users reported on Wednesday that Iranian internet service providers started replying to DNS queries for the main Google.com domain with the Lock SafeSearch URL of forcesafesearch.google.com. This is a known feature of the Google search engine that's usually employed in controlled corporate environments, where companies prevent users from searching for inappropriate content. Apparently, this is also the second time the Iranian government has done this.
KillNet: Intel471 has a report out on the operations of pro-Russian hacktivist group KillNet and its recruitment, tactics, techniques, and procedures.