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Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram blocked in Turkey as Idlib military crisis escalates

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Network data collected by the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media as Idlib military crisis escalates. In December 2016 , the Turkish blocked social media in the country to prevent the sharing of a video of the executions of Turkish soldiers by the IS group. ”added Netblocks. .

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InvisiMole group targets military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe

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Security researchers at ESET recently uncovered a campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe. The SMInit exploit chain exploits a vulnerability in the legitimate Total Video Player software.

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Iran-linked APT35 accidentally exposed 40 GB associated with their operations

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Iran-linked APT35 group accidentally exposed one of its servers, leaving online roughly 40 GB of videos and other files associated with its operations. The experts found several files on the server, roughly five hours of training videos recorded by the APT group. Some of the videos were showing how to exfiltrate data (i.e.

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Transparent Tribe APT hit 1000+ victims in 27 countries in the last 12 months

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The Transparent Tribe cyber-espionage group continues to improve its arsenal while targets Military and Government entities. The Transparent Tribe APT group is carrying out an ongoing cyberespionage campaign aimed at military and diplomatic targets worldwide. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency

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The SBU seized equipment composed of two metal cases containing that included coolers and video cards ( Radeon RX 470 GPU), computer components commonly used in mining factories. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reported ZDnet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Maze ransomware gang leaked Canon USA’s stolen files

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The problem was first reported by Bleepingcomputer, which tracked a suspicious outage on Canon’s image.canon cloud photo and video storage service. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The memo also reveals that the company has hired an external security firm to investigate the incident.

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Russia-linked STRONTIUM APT targets IoT devices to hack corporate networks

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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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” IoT risk must be taken seriously.

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