Society
Veronica Valeros
Point For Help: Aid Cards for Getting Help ...

Point For Help are portable cards where people can use their bodies to communicate what they need help with when they are in a place where they do not speak the language. They are designed to be intuitive, small, portable and durable. We believe they can be of help for refugees and other displaced people.

Point For Help: Aid Cards for Getting Help Breaking Through Language Barriers
Civilsphere AI VPN
Stratosphere IPS
Civilsphere AI VPN: v0.1.0-beta release

The AI VPN is a free software tool that provides users with an automatic network security assessment of their network traffic. Users can request a new OpenVPN or WireGuard VPN profile via email or Telegram, connect to it for a predefined amount of time (hours to days), and receive a full report after their VPN profile expires.

Mobile Network Traffic
Stratosphere IPS
Capturing and Detecting AndroidTester Remote ...

In this blog post, we show how the Emergency VPN can help identify RAT infections on Android phones. The images and network traffic included in this blog post are part of the original research by Civilsphere researcher Kamila Babayeva on the Android Mischief Dataset.

Civilsphere AI VPN
Stratosphere IPS
Civilsphere AI VPN: v0.1-alpha pre-release

The AI VPN is a free software tool that provides users with an automatic network security assessment of their network traffic. Users can request a new VPN profile via email, connect to it for a predefined amount of time (hours to days), and receive a full report after their VPN profile expires.

Civilsphere AI VPN
Stratosphere IPS
Introducing Our New Project: Civilsphere AI VPN

We are happy to announce that with the support of the NLNET Foundation and the Czech Technical University in Prague we are working on our new project, the Civilsphere AI VPN, to provide individuals with automatic advanced threat detection on the go.

android

PhantomLance Android malware highlights the complexity of the mobile threat

The discovery of the PantomLance malware linked to the OceanLotus APT group ─ which has previously targeted civil society in Vietnam ─ provides some important lessons on mobile threats against high-value targets.

Use of Facebook UDP Priming Revealed in Unencrypted UDP Connection to port 33000

Early this year we observed suspicious UDP connections to port 33000 in a mobile device. This traffic contained a Facebook URL that included a Facebook Graph token, and it was sent unencrypted over the network. In this blog post we show details of this traffic, what information is leaked, and who is affected. We have reported this behavior to Facebook, who confirmed this traffic is part of Facebook’s normal behavior.