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Operation In(ter)reception targets Military and Aerospace employees in Europe and the Middle East

Security Affairs

Experts uncovered a new cyber-espionage campaign, dubbed “ Operation In(ter)receptio n,” aimed at aerospace and military organizations in Europe and the Middle East. For further communication with the customer, they used their own email address mimicking the victim’s.” ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Platinum APT and leverages steganography to hide C2 communications

Security Affairs

The Platinum cyber espionage group uses steganographic technique to hide communications with the Command and Control Servers (C&C). Experts from Kaspersky have linked the Platinum APT group with cyber attacks involving an elaborate, and new steganographic technique used to hide communications with C2 servers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Symantec uncovered the link between China-Linked Thrip and Billbug groups

Security Affairs

The group has continued launching attacks against entities in Southeast Asia, including military, satellite communications, media and educational organizations. Billbug is a long-established espionage group, active since at least January 2009. Security experts at Symantec speculate that Thrip is a sub-group of Billbug.

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Russian spies are attempting to tap transatlantic undersea cables

Security Affairs

Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. Garda and military intelligence agencies believe the Russian agents were sent by the military intelligence branch of the Russian armed forces, the GRU.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Icamis and Sal were in daily communications with these botmasters, via the Spamdot forum and private messages. Also, it was common for Icamis to reply when Spamdot members communicated a request or complaint to Sal, and vice versa. Penchukov) — fled his mandatory military service orders and was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland.

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0v1ru$ hackers breach FSB contractor SyTech and expose Russian intel projects

Security Affairs

According to the Russian media, SyTech has been working with FSB since 2009, in particular, they contributed to several projects for FSB unit 71330 and for fellow contractor Quantum. “According to the data received, the majority of non-public projects of Sytech were commissioned by military unit No.

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US authorities aim to dismantle North Korea’s Joanap Botnet

Security Affairs

The authorities set up servers that mimic the botnet’s communication system in order to collect information on infected systems and share them with ISP and the owners of the compromised computers.