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LeakedSource Owner Quit Ashley Madison a Month Before 2015 Hack

Krebs on Security

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] The CEO’s leaked emails show Eric Malek resigned from his developer position at Ashley Madison on June 19, 2015 — just four days before Bloom would announce his departure.

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Naikon APT is flying under the radar since 2015

Security Affairs

“Recently Check Point Research discovered new evidence of an ongoing cyber espionage operation against several national government entities in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.” The group also used compromised infrastructure belonging to various governments within APAC to launch attacks against other targets in the region.

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Is Gelsemium APT behind a targeted attack in Southeast Asian Government?

Security Affairs

A stealthy APT group tracked as Gelsemium was observed targeting a Southeast Asian government between 2022 and 2023. Palo Alto Unit42 researchers an APT group tracked as Gelsemium targeting a Southeast Asian government. The experts tracked the cluster as CL-STA-0046, the malicious activity spanned over six months between 2022-2023.

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EU Council sanctions two Russian military intelligence officers over 2015 Bundestag hack

Security Affairs

The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on Russian military intelligence officers for 2015 Bundestag hack. The 85th Main Centre for Special Services (GTsSS) is the military unit of the Russian government also tracked as APT28 (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ).

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Ex Twitter employee found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabian government

Security Affairs

In November 2019, the former Twitter employees Abouammo and the Saudi citizen Ali Alzabarah have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. The two former Twitter employees operated for the Saudi Arabian government with the intent of unmasking dissidents using the social network.

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The British government aims at improving its offensive cyber capability

Security Affairs

Intelligence experts pointed out that the British government already conducted offensive hacking operations, including the one that targeted the ISIS in 2017. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reported The Guardian. “Our Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, UK).

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Thousands of Canadian government accounts hacked, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat say

Security Affairs

The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat confirmed that thousands of user accounts for online Canadian government services were recently hacked. According to a press release issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, thousands of user accounts for online government services were recently hacked. Pierluigi Paganini.