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Naikon APT group uses new Nebulae backdoor in attacks aimed at military orgs

Security Affairs

China-linked APT Naikon employed a new backdoor in multiple cyber-espionage operations targeting military organizations from Southeast Asia in the last 2 years. The Naikon APT group mainly focuses on high-profile orgs, including government entities and military orgs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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British Court rejects the US’s request to extradite Julian Assange

Security Affairs

He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010. In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country and years later he contacted s LulzSec leader who was working for the FBI and provided him a list of targets.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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MY TAKE: Iran’s cyber retaliation for Soleimani assassination continues to ramp up

The Last Watchdog

Touhill “Adversaries should remember that our military doctrine identifies cyber as one of our combined arms capabilities,” says Greg Touhill, president of AppGate Federal Group , a Florida-based supplier of software perimeter security systems. You can easily purchase access to vulnerable U.S. That was a glitch. electrical grid.

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NK-linked InkySquid APT leverages IE exploits in recent attacks

Security Affairs

APT37 has been active since at least 2012, it mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. BLUELIGHT was used to gather intelligence on the infected system and to provide remote access to the attackers, it supports the following commands: Execute downloaded shellcode. services. .

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Q&A: Cloud Providers and Leaky Servers

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Compounding the problem, configuring Identity and Access Management (IAM) in the cloud can be difficult. I was one of 68 million Dropbox users that received an email last year asking me to reset my password because they found out that in 2012 they had lost our User IDs and hashed passwords.

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Russia’s SolarWinds Attack

Schneier on Security

(We don’t know how, but last year the company’s update server was protected by the password “solarwinds123” — something that speaks to a lack of security culture.) Users who downloaded and installed that corrupted update between March and June unwittingly gave SVR hackers access to their networks.