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6 cyber-espionage campaigns since 2013 attributed to PKPLUG China-linked group

Security Affairs

The name comes from the threat actor using PlugX inside ZIP archives containing the ASCII magic bytes “PK” in the header. Below the timeline of the PKPLUG attacks over the years: The first campaign associated with the PKPLUG was observed in November 2013, when the group targeted Mongolian individuals with PlugX RAT.

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CyberRatings.org Revives NSS Labs Research

Dark Reading

The NSS Labs archive, available with free registration, consists of over 800 test reports, analyst briefs, and research published by NSS Labs from 2013 — 2020.

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IRMS 2013 – Brighton – Thanks

Preservica

Thanks to all those who made IRMS 2013 such a great event, to those who dropped by the stand and everyone who participated in our survey. Reading the survey responses I was really struck by the diversity of retention schedules being managed and the challenge of archival records in operational systems.

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National Archives Does Not Tolerate Harassment

Archives Blogs

That my predecessor could have used this office to mistreat members of the National Archives family leaves me angry, and shaped much of the agency’s ensuing approach to harassment. In 2010, I issued the National Archives’ first anti-harassment policy. The OIG and the FBI then conducted an investigation. He passed away in 2015.

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Russia-linked Armageddon APT targets Ukrainian state organizations, CERT-UA warns

Security Affairs

The Gamaredon group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. Upon opening the file, a RAR-archive named “Viyskovi_zlochinci_RU.rar” is created. . The phishing messages have been sent from “vadim_melnik88@i[.]ua,”

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Scottish Political Archive Launch New Crowdsourcing Campaign

Archives Blogs

The Scottish Political Archive are looking for volunteers to help with a new crowdsourcing project to fully transcribe and index their 2014 Independence Referendum Collection. Dr Elisa Broccoli said “We developed a first crowdsourcing application to transcribe leaflets from the Scottish Political Archive.

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Take the NDSA 2017 Web Archiving Survey

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The National Digital Stewardship Alliance is sponsoring a survey of organizations in the United States who are actively involved in or planning to archive content from the web. Any United States organization involved in web archiving or in the process of planning a web archive is encouraged to take the survey.