Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked HENSOLDT France, a company specializing in military and defense electronics. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. The post Snatch group claims to have hacked military provider HENSOLDT France appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2022

Anonymous continues to support Ukraine against the Russian criminal invasion targeting the Russian military and propaganda. Anonymous leaked personal details of the Russian military stationed in Bucha where the Russian military carried out a massacre of civilians that are accused of having raped and shot local women and children.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Armed Forces General Staff (Portuguese: Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas), or EMGFA, is the supreme military body of Portugal. The National Security Office (GNS) and Portugal’s national cybersecurity center launched an investigation into the incident to determine the extent of the data breach. ” continues the website.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

The hacktivists also attempted to interfere with Russian military communications on the battlefield, recently they captured and shared Russian Military unencrypted High Frequency and morse code communications. Early this week, the GhostSec group announced to have seized more than 100 Russian government and military printers.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has started a campaign to increase awareness of these risks to U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 5, 2022

The top reason, chosen from a proved list of ten, was ‘increased cyber security risks’, followed by the related concern, ‘new and/or increased data privacy regulations’. Cyber security keeps the C-suite up at night and perhaps that’s no surprise. Cyber security should also be viewed in a wider business context. Cyber in a silo?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Ukraine’s CERT-UA revealed the national Delta military intelligence program has been targeted with a malware-based attack. ” states the Ukrainian military. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Delta military intelligence). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon. Pierluigi Paganini.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Security researchers see updated tactics and tools—and a tempo change—in the cyberattacks Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency is inflicting on Ukraine.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 19, 2022

While global commerce is an important aspect of the world economy, individuals who hold national security clearances need to be aware that some of the activities they engage in could pose a security risk and may negatively impact their security clearances. national security secrets. national security secrets.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2022

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

” reported the American Military News website. The Washington Times national security writer Tom Rogan confirmed that the explosion at the Freeport LNG facility could be consistent with a hacking campaign conducted by APT groups like XENOTIME. . ” continues the American Military News website. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

government employees and contractors have been issued a secure smart ID card that enables physical access to buildings and controlled spaces, and provides access to government computer networks and systems at the cardholder’s appropriate security level. Millions of U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2022

Ukraine CERT-UA published a security advisory to warn of spear-phishing attacks conducted by Russia-linked Armageddon APT (aka Gamaredon , Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) targeting local state organizations. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2022

The experts pointed out that starting just before the invasion threat actors linked to the military intelligence service GRU launched destructive wiper attacks on hundreds of systems in Ukraine. The post Russia-linked threat actors launched hundreds of cyberattacks on Ukraine appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A hacker group called Guacamaya stole classified government information from multiple military and government agencies across several Latin American countries. According to the media , the security breach also affects Chile’s police forces. ambassador to Mexico. “This did not happen by chance,” he said. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2022

Threat actors could perform reverse engineering of military-made malicious code and use their own versions in attacks in the wild. “The same applies for the digital weapons that, maybe today are used by the military, developed by military, and tomorrow will be available for criminals,” he explained. .

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IT Governance

MARCH 8, 2022

As the Russian invasion continues, many cyber security experts have advised that conflicts could play out in cyberspace. Meanwhile, the CERT-UA posted on Facebook that it had detected a widespread phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian military personnel.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

The attack took place in April 2017 and the man is accused of conducting the attack for the Russian military intelligence service GRU. “The German investigators were also able to secure the content of the Russian’s email accounts, who are said to have used Apple user accounts, among other things. ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2022

The researchers uncovered a phishing campaign conducted by a Russia-linked threat actor tracked as COLDRIVER (aka Calisto ) against a NATO Centre of Excellence and Eastern European militaries. Google experts pointed out that this is the first time that the cyberspies target NATO and military of multiple Eastern European countries.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The post Mandiant identifies 3 hacktivist groups working in support of Russia appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

Pro-Ukraine hackers, likely linked to Ukraine IT Army , are using Docker images to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a dozen websites belonging to government, military, and media. The post Pro-Ukraine attackers compromise Docker images to launch DDoS attacks on Russian sites appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Ukraine’s technical security and intelligence service warns of threat actors targeting aimed at gaining access to users’ Telegram accounts. Feb 27- Mar 05 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

On December 12, the California Department of Finance confirmed the security incident with a statement. “The intrusion was proactively identified through coordination with state and federal security partners. “The intrusion was proactively identified through coordination with state and federal security partners.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2022

The attackers said that the stolen data includes information about the employees of the company involved in military projects, commercial activities, contract agreements and correspondence with other companies. The post Threat actor claims to have hacked European manufacturer of missiles MBDA appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 399 by Pierluigi Paganini appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. February 25 – Ukraine: Belarusian APT group UNC1151 targets military personnel with spear phishing. February 15 – Ukraine: Military defense agencies and banks hit by cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2022

The collective remarked that it wants peace and wants only to hit Putin and not Russian citizens, it wants to stop the military invasion of Ukraine. The post Anonymous hacked Russian streaming services to broadcast war footage appeared first on Security Affairs. MORE: All Russian-state TV channels have been hacked. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukraine and European government and military orgs. Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukrainian and European government and military organizations, as well as individuals. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

The malicious macro attachment used the Emergency Meeting of the NATO Security Council held on February 23, 2022, as bait. ” Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Ghostwriter APT group has launched , multiple attacks against the private email accounts of Ukrainian military personnel. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The post Microsoft disrupted APT28 attacks on Ukraine through a court order appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 21, 2022

This is a dangerous vulnerability: An assessment from security firm BitSight found six vulnerabilities in the Micodus MV720 , a GPS tracker that sells for about $20 and is widely available. The security firm said it first contacted Micodus in September to notify company officials of the vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2022

“Certain services were switched off temporarily for security reasons but the security of accounts belonging to citizens and companies and their data have not been jeopardised,” said Public Administration Minister Maras Dukaj. Montenegro immediately reported the attack to other members of the NATO alliance.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

In November, Ukraine’s premier law enforcement and counterintelligence disclosed the real identities of five alleged members of the Russia-linked APT group Gamaredon (aka Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) that are suspected to be components of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This week, Anonymous launched a war on Russia and against those countries that are supporting military operations in Ukraine, like Belarus. The post Anonymous breached the internal network of Belarusian railways appeared first on Security Affairs. At the time of this writing the websites pass.rw.by, portal.rw.by, rw.by

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

Since February the notorious cybercrime operation Trickbot is controlled by Conti ransomware, the ransomware gang that publicly announced its support to Russia after the invasion of Ukraine by Russian cyber militaries. The alert published by the Ukraine CERT-UA includes Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this campaign and recommendations.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2022

.” “We decided to disconnect the network due to increased security risk inside Russia,” the statement continues. “Without the Internet, the rest of the world would not know of atrocities happening in other places,” Sullivan wrote.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

. “ Curious Gorge, a group TAG attributes to China’s PLA SSF, has remained active against government, military, logistics and manufacturing organizations in Ukraine, Russia and Central Asia. ” wrote Google TAG Security Engineer Billy Leonard. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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