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N. Korean Kimsuky APT targets S. Korea-US military exercises

Security Affairs

South Korea military exercise. The military drill, the Ulchi Freedom Guardian summer exercises , will start on Monday, August 21, 2023 , and will last 11 days. The military exercises aim at improving the ability of the two armies to respond to North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats. .

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Chinese APT CactusPete targets military and financial orgs in Eastern Europe

Security Affairs

China-linked threat actor tracked as CactusPete was employing an updated backdoor in recent attacks targeting military and financial organizations in Eastern Europe. If we recall that CactusPete targets military, diplomatic and infrastructure organizations, the information could be very sensitive indeed,” Kaspersky continues.

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InvisiMole group targets military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe

Security Affairs

Security researchers at ESET recently uncovered a campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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

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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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The FBI Identified a Tor User

Schneier on Security

The FBI also found what specific pages Al-Azhari visited, including a section on donating Bitcoin; another focused on military operations conducted by ISIS fighters in Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria; and another page that provided links to material from ISIS’s media arm. There are lots of ways to de-anonymize Tor users.

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Two former NSA Officials appointed by Joe Biden for prominent cyber roles

Security Affairs

President Joe Biden has assigned to two former senior National Security Agency (NSA) officials key cyber roles in his administration. Inglis retired from NSA in 2014 where he served the US government for 28 years, since 2013 as the agency’s deputy director. I’m proud of what we are building across the U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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A job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence revealed a secret hacking squad

Security Affairs

The MoD is offering a salary of £33k to “work alongside some of the best scientists and engineers within defence and will be tasked with delivering prototype solutions directly to the soldiers and officers of a unique and specialized military unit.” ”What unique and specialised military unit is famously based in Hereford?

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