Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

RedFoxtrot has been active since at least 2014 and focused on gathering military intelligence from neighboring countries, it is suspected to work under the PLA China-linked Unit 69010. The threat actor systematically utilized software distributed by security vendors to sideload ShadowPad and PlugX variants.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a Zimbra flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-27926 , to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The goal of this activity is assessed to be gaining access to the emails of military, government, and diplomatic organizations across Europe involved in the Russia Ukrainian War.”

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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. To nominate, please visit:?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Thales cybersecurity researchers have shown this week how they seized control of a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite. Credit: ESA – European Space Agency The offensive cybersecurity team at Thales demonstrated how to take control of the ESA satellite, the is considered the world’s first ethical satellite hacking exercise.

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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 9, 2023

made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. hacking tools and electronics appeared first on Security Affairs. His illegal acquisitions of sophisticated U.S.

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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

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

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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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

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 group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Government Accountability Office audit last week found that the defense department is playing catch up when it comes to securing weapons systems from cyberattacks. military and civilian personnel were compromised. The result: personal information and credit card data of at least 30,000 U.S. Timely trust decisions.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), US Cyber Command, and international partners released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn that Russia-linked threat actors are using compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters (EdgeRouters) to evade detection in cyber operations worldwide.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

Researchers shared technical details about a flaw in Windows MSHTML platform, tracked as CVE-2023-29324 , that could be abused to bypass security protections. Cybersecurity researchers have shared details about a now-patched security flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-29324 (CVSS score: 6.5), in Windows MSHTML platform.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

The Google TAG team published a report focused on cybersecurity activity in Eastern Europe. “ 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. . To nominate, please visit:?

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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

APRIL 19, 2023

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 group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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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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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

The agency is responsible for national, military and police intelligence, as well as counterintelligence. Clearly, an attack against an intelligence agency could lead to the disclosure of secret and confidential documents and pose a risk to national security. The ransomware gang claimed to have stolen 9.41 GB of data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In Q1 2023, threat actors linked to Russia’s military intelligence service focused their phishing campaigns on Ukraine, with the country accounting for over 60% of observed Russian targeting. TAG also observed campaigns from this actor targeting attendees of the Munich Security Conference and the Masters of Digital conference.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

The activity of the Lyceum APT group was first documented earlier in August 2019 by researchers at ICS security firm Dragos which tracked it as Hexane. The attack chain observed by the researchers starts with spear-phishing messages using weaponized Word document disguised as a news report related to military affairs in Iran.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

– Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Christopher Fonzone, former National Security Council (NSC) legal adviser and deputy assistant and counsel to President Obama, has joined the firm as a partner in its Washington, D.C. He will be a member of Sidley’s global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

F**k the Russian Military. BleepingComputer first learned of NB65’s ransomware by cybersecurity researchers Tom Malka and during the weekend they were able to discover a sample of the Conti ransomware modified by NB65 that was uploaded to VirusTotal. And what kind of chincy ass soviet connection are you guys using?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Last week the Israeli cybersecurity firm Kape Technologies has acquired the industry’s leading virtual private networks ExpressVPN, as part of a $936 million deal. The trio has worked as hackers-for-hire for the United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company DarkMatter between January 2016 and November 2019. and its ally, the U.A.E.,

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

We public schemes, drawings, technologies, political and military secrets, accounting reports and clients databases. However, it is peculiar and something that security researchers and analysts will need to keep an eye on. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2022

The Italian police is investigating the attack, while the National Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) confirmed that the websites were hit with DDoS attacks. Our Legion conducts military cyber exercises in your countries in order to improve their skills. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Although there have still been a few surprises, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and blazing heatwaves across the UK to name but two, it was a familiar year in the cyber security landscape. Google , Clearview AI , and Meta all receives hefty penalties in 2022, demonstrating the continued important of effective information security.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

“Microsoft assesses that Mint Sandstorm is associated with an intelligence arm of Iran’s military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an assessment that has been corroborated by multiple credible sources including Mandiant , Proofpoint , and SecureWorks.” ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2022

SideWinder has been active since at least 2012, the group main targeted Police, Military, Maritime, and the Naval forces of Central Asian countries. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2022

We public schemes, drawings, technologies, political and military secrets, accounting reports and clients databases. The post Experts spotted Industrial Spy, a new stolen data marketplace appeared first on Security Affairs. We gather data using vunlerability in their IT infrastructure. in their IT infrastructure. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

The affected organizations, both governmental and military, show that this group is focused on very high-profile targets and is probably used to achieve critical goals, likely related to geopolitical interests. ” Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS. .”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2022

The six individuals are Russian officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU), a division of the Russian military intelligence that was often involved in malicious cyber operations against US infrastructure. national security.” critical infrastructure.”

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 21, 2022

Strong demand for application security that supports DevSecOps initiatives drives investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies and New Enterprise Associates. Other application security approaches just don’t work like attackers, and cannot be truly automated because humans need to double check the results.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2024

In modern times, cryptography has become a critical lynchpin of cybersecurity. From securing everyday personal messages and the authentication of digital signatures to protecting payment information for online shopping and even guarding top-secret government data and communications—cryptography makes digital privacy possible.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 4, 2023

But, according to security researchers at Abnormal Security, cybercriminals are becoming brazen and are taking their shots at very large prizes. According to Abnormal Security, nearly every aspect of the request looked legitimate. This attack begins with a case of VEC – where a domain is impersonated.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

. “The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation, conducted in March 2022, to disrupt a two-tiered global botnet of thousands of infected network hardware devices under the control of a threat actor known to security researchers as Sandworm, which the U.S. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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