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Qbot uses a new email collector module in the latest campaign

Security Affairs

Most of the infections were observed in organizations in the US and Europe, the most targeted industries were in the government, military, and manufacturing sectors. . Check Point’s experts have analyzed examples of targeted, hijacked email threads with subjects related to Covid-19, tax payment reminders, and job recruitment content.

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Cyber mercenaries and insiders hired by Chinese intelligence to hack aerospace and tech firms

Security Affairs

.” The Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD) is a foreign intelligence unit that is coordinated by China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), the agency that is tasked for non-military foreign intelligence and domestic counterintelligence operations. The campaign was carried out at least from January 2010 to May 2015.

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Experts link Hermit spyware to Italian surveillance firm RCS Lab and a front company

Security Affairs

The malware samples analyzed impersonated the applications of telecommunications companies or smartphone manufacturers. According to leaked documents published in WikiLeaks in 2015, RCS Lab was a reseller of the notorious Italian surveillance firm HackingTeam. However, we found various publicly-available clues that suggest otherwise.

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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.

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Russian Sednit APT used the first UEFI rootkit of ever in attacks in the wild

Security Affairs

” The Sednit APT group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. This solution comes pre-installed in the firmware of a large number of laptops manufactured by various OEMs, waiting to be activated by their owners.” ” continues the report.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

A lot of modern communications, for example, have their origins in the 19th century, such as the telegraph, which required wires to be strung around the world. He told her he really wanted to create faster planes so that he could sell them to the US military. A majority of these Wi Fi radios were manufactured between 1997 and 1999.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

Could we hack into an airplane, for example. In 2015, shortly after the Jeep hack, the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) released a study suggesting that someone could take wireless signals within an airplane and perhaps cause mischief. For example, the Embraer regional jet actually uses cables for the elevator controls.