Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In a 2015 cyberattack, widely attributed to Russia state hackers, 225,000 Ukrainians lost electricity.” The offensive volunteer unit Aushev said he is organizing would help Ukraine’s military conduct digital espionage operations against invading Russian forces. ” reported the Reuters. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A recent example comes from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. One of the things in it was a typo that accidentally categorized military death benefits as earned income. An example of a vulnerability is the “Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich.” That 2017 earned income tax bug for military families hasn’t yet been fixed.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

According to leaked documents published in WikiLeaks in 2015, RCS Lab was a reseller of the notorious Italian surveillance firm HackingTeam. RCS Lab was providing its software to military and intelligence agencies in Pakistan , Chile , Mongolia , Bangladesh , Vietnam , Myanmar and Turkmenistan. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

“Cyber mission forces first identified the need for a shared, iterative virtual cyber range during exercise Cyber Flag 2015 and has since galvanized an expedited effort to define the requirement and find technical solutions. The agreement is valued at $215.19 ” reads the press release published by the US Cyber Command.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

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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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

When the Ashley Madison data breach occurred in 2015, it made headline news around the world. But there's also a lot of consistency, for example, here's a piece on whether it's legal to access an employee's email account in Australia : The short answer is yes.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

A Server-side request forgery (also known as SSRF) is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to induce the server-side application to make HTTP requests to an arbitrary domain of the attacker’s choosing. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” the hackers said.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Security researchers revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom used BGP hijacking to misdirect Internet traffic through China. Security researchers Chris C. gov’’) and military (‘‘.mil’’) Another incident has happened on December 9, 2015, when traffic to Verizon APAC was hijacked through China Telecom.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The STRONTIUM APT group (aka APT28 , Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , and Sednit ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. link] #MSFTatBlackHat — Security Response (@msftsecresponse) August 5, 2019. ” concludes Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

US intelligence believes that the cyber espionage operation was under the control of Zha Rong and Chai Meng, two intelligence officers working for the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD) in the Chinese city of Nanjing. The campaign was carried out at least from January 2010 to May 2015. According to U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin calling out Iran’s “robust cyber program,” and cautioning everyone to be prepared for Iran to “conduct operations in the United States.” Russia has twice now knocked out Ukraine’s power grid for extended periods, in the Industroyer attacks of December 2015 and again in December 2016.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The news is quite curious, the US military will no longer use 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated computer (SACCS) to manage nuclear weapons arsenal. In June, the US Air Force has replaced the floppy disks in the SACCS nuclear weapons management system with a “highly-secure solid state digital storage solution.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities. Penchukov) — fled his mandatory military service orders and was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. 9, 2024).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

According to security researchers at Trend Micro, a cyberespionage campaign is targeting Android users in Middle Eastern countries. Security researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a cyberespionage campaign, dubbed ‘Bouncing Golf, that is targeting Android users in Middle Eastern countries. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

authorities will also inform foreign victims through the FBI’s Legal Attaches that works with the law enforcement and security agencies in their countries. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Most of the antivirus programs are also able to detect both Joanap and Brambul.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Security experts from ESET have spotted the first UEFI rootkit of ever, the code tracked as LoJax was used in attacks in the wild. Security experts have debated for a long about UEFI rootkits that are very dangerous malware hard to detect and that could resist to the operating system reinstallation and even to the hard disk replacement.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2019

The group calls the agents and the military to stand against the corrupt policies. They should all follow our example, and that should do anything that could reveal disgusting abuses that politics do, as you say said before. Do you think national computer security should be shared with other nations? me@matricedigitale.it

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A penny stock is a security issued by a small company, generally for less than $5 per share, let’s see how crooks attempt to exploit them for scam s. A penny stock is a security issued by a small company, generally for less than $5 per share. For example, they could safeguard their systems from hacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2018

The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. This malware immediately caught the attention of the expert because it contacts a C2 with the name “ marina-info.net ” a clear reference to the Italian Military corp, Marina Militare.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new backdoor, tracked as Titanium, that was used by the Platinum APT group in attacks in the wild, the malicious code implements sophisticated evasion techniques. “ ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published a quick analysis of an interesting attack carried out by SWEED threat actor targeting precision engineering firms in Italy. For example (or for full read RegKeys have a look to here ): [.] Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Introduction.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. In December 2015, Ferizi was apprehended in Malaysia and extradited to the United States. military members and government employees. The Pentagon Crew forum founded by Ferizi.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

In fact, I remember starting a new job by flying to Auburn Hills, Michigan for the very first meeting of the Featherstone Group, a collection of automotive OEM executive and security professionals. Could we hack into an airplane, for example. After the NTSB released its 2015 report about aircraft hacking, very little action came of it.

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CGI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Tue, 09/08/2015 - 07:49. Arguably, machine to machine (M2M) communication started in the 1950s in military projects , where IBM developed the real time operating system concepts required to handle a number of complex applications, including the first missile tracking systems. IoT - Haven’t we been here before?

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2018

military and civilian personnel. It does appear that this is another example of attacks successfully penetrating a weak supply chain link, underscoring the importance of addressing third-party risks. In that caper, criminals got away with Social Security numbers, passwords, and in some cases, fingerprints. On Friday, Oct.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). For example from 2017 to early 2018 APT28 used specific techniques such as: T1251 , T1329 , T1336 and T1319. Weaponization Timeline. Installation.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 4, 2022

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. Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all security. He told her he really wanted to create faster planes so that he could sell them to the US military.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace. Many telecom operators are Managed Service Providers and provide security services to government and commercial organizations.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming society, including the very character of national security. AI literacy is a must-have for security It’s important that personnel know how to deploy AI to improve organizational efficiencies. For example, have appropriate and inappropriate uses of the model been clearly communicated?

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Some, like Adam Van Prooyan, just kind of wandered into that path, in part because he was interested in computers, and also because the West Point Military Academy just happened to have a CTF team that competes in the annual Cyberstakes competition. Vamosi: So, not everyone is in a military academy. Cyber 600 and that was.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. Vamosi: Today, John has taken his juvenile curiosity in breaking things down to become a security researcher with Huntress Labs. Mechanical things. Electronic Things. My process was crude.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 27, 2021

Often I would just use a screwdriver and break a toaster, for example, down to its smallest components, and then try and map out its circuitry. Vamosi: Today, John has taken his juvenile curiosity in breaking things down to become a security researcher with Huntress Labs. Mechanical things. Electronic Things. My process was crude.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2019

Some videos show that is very simple to buy drugs securely or explain how to hack a website. So there is so much counter-information and the most obvious example that I always carry forward is the version of the Bible translated into the languages ??of Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 26, 2019

Trump’s cyber strike against Iran is the latest development in tensions that began in May 2018, when Trump scuttled the 2015 Iran nuclear deal – which was the result of 10 years of negotiation between Iran and the United Nations Security Council. were meeting the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal , prior to Trump scuttling the deal.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In 2015, Chinese military hackers hacked the Office of Personal Management and made off with the highly personal information of about 22 million Americans who had security clearances. Those are all major incidents to security people, but think about them from the perspective of the average person. power grid.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The solution is to prioritize security and defense over espionage and attack. 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.) It’s an increasingly common way to attack networks.

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