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Emissary Panda APT group hit Government Organizations in the Middle East

Security Affairs

Chinese Cyber-Spies Target Government Organizations in Middle East. Chinese APT group Emissary Panda has been targeting government organizations in two different countries in the Middle East. defense contractors , financial services firms, and a national data center in Central Asia.

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Microsoft partnered with other security firms to takedown TrickBot botnet

Security Affairs

Microsoft’s Defender team, FS-ISAC , ESET , Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs , NTT , and Broadcom’s cyber-security division Symantec joint the forces and announced today a coordinated effort to take down the command and control infrastructure of the infamous TrickBot botnet. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group

Krebs on Security

Department of the Treasury says the Trickbot group is associated with Russian intelligence services, and that this alliance led to the targeting of many U.S. companies and government entities. BOTNET, THE MOVIE In 2015, Kovalev reportedly began filming a movie in Russia about cybercrime called “ Botnet.”

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News Alert: W3C advances technology to streamline payment authentication

The Last Watchdog

The World Wide Web Consortium today announced a standardization milestone for a new browser capability that helps to streamline user authentication and enhance payment security during Web checkout. Publication of Secure Payment Confirmation as a Candidate Recommendation indicates that the feature set is stable and has received wide review.

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Why I believe the Blockchain will transform Government

CGI

Why I believe the Blockchain will transform Government. Fri, 12/11/2015 - 04:23. You may not yet have come across the Blockchain but it is making waves within the financial services community and is heralded as one of the most significant advances in technology for a generation. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com.

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France and Germany will block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

Security Affairs

France and Germany governments announced that they will block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency , the news was reported by French finance ministry Bruno Le Maire. “We reads a joint statement issued by the two governments, “I want to be absolutely clear: in these conditions, we cannot authorise the development of Libra on European soil.”

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Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten sells access to hacked networks

Security Affairs

The Iranian hacker group has been attacking corporate VPNs over the past months, they have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world targeting Pulse Secure , Fortinet , Palo Alto Networks , and Citrix VPNs. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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