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NASA warns of a significant increase in cyber attacks during Coronavirus outbreak

Security Affairs

NASA employees and contractors should be aware that nation-states and cyber criminals are actively using the COVID-19 pandemic to exploit and target NASA electronic devices, networks, and personal devices.” Refrain from opening your personal email or non-work related social media on your NASA computer systems/devices.

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Sopra Steria hit by the Ryuk ransomware gang

Security Affairs

A cyber attack was detected on the Sopra Steria computer network on the evening of October 20. And part of the information system would have been encrypted.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. And given that the UK police would raid its offices in July 2014, it had legitimate cause to be worried. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics.

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 Those objects are real Encrypted Ole Objects where the Encrypted payload sits on “EncryptedPackage” section and information on how to decrypt it are available on “EncryptionInfo” xml descriptor. Stage1: Encrypted Content.

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European Commission proposes reinforcement of EU Cybersecurity rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

A DSP is an information society service that is an online marketplace, an online search engine or a cloud computing service. The deployment models of cloud computing should include private, community, public and hybrid cloud and be interpreted in accordance with the ISO/IEC 17788:2014 standard.

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Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection

Security Affairs

From the recorded traffic it’s possible to see the following patterns: a HTTP GET request with some encrypted information to download plugin/additional stages and finally a HTTP POST to send victim’s data directly on the “attacker side”. The used variable holds a Base64 representation of encrypted data. Edited by Pierluigi Paganini.

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Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware

Security Affairs

The SilentTrinity malware can take control over an infected computer, it allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The C2 traffic is encrypted with AES, the public key is generated using the Diffie–Hellman protocol, the network transport is implemented over HTTP(S) with proxy support. The result is sent back to the C2 server.