eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Reports that the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware was used by governments to spy on Apple iPhones used by journalists, activists, government officials and business executives is becoming a global controversy for NSO, Apple and a number of governments at the center of the scandal. Journalists, Government Officials Targeted.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

A huge trove of data belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities (ODS) was left unsecured on a server for at least a week. Another data leak made the headlines, a huge trove of data belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities (ODS) was left unsecured on a server for at least a week. ” reads the press release.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2019

Russian APT groups are targeting European governments for cyber-espionage purposes ahead of the upcoming European elections. The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2019

Security researchers have found a new government spyware, tracked as Exodus, that was distributed through the Google Play Store. According to Motherboard, the Android surveillance malware on the Google Play store that was sold to the Italian government by a company that sells surveillance cameras. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Researchers at security firm CheckPoint uncovered an extensive surveillance operation conducted by Iranian APT actor and tracked as Domestic Kitten aimed at specific groups of individuals. ” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint. ” continues the analysis. call records. text and multimedia messages.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Shane Huntley, the head of the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), wrote on Twitter that his group had sent an above-average batch of government-backed security warnings. . TAG sent a above average batch of government-backed security warnings yesterday. So why do we do these government warnings then?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky was recently spotted using a new piece of malware in attacks on government agencies and human rights activists. CSPY Downloader is a tool designed to evade analysis and acts as a downloader to deliver additional payloads. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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Data Protection Report

MAY 24, 2024

These principles (the Principles) are: Safety, security and robustness. Accountability and governance. ICO In its strategic update , the ICO emphasises the potential benefits AI can bring across sectors, and also highlights that there are inherent risks associated with AI, concerning, for example, transparency, security, and fairness.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The exploit had numerous debug strings from an older, publicly known exploit for vulnerability CVE-2016-3309 , but closer analysis revealed that it was a zero-day.” ” reported the analysis published by Kaspersky. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2022

The threat actors behind this campaign impersonate Mexican Government Officials, the malware uses multiple anti-analysis techniques along with implementation of Captcha for evading Sandboxes. The post Grandoreiro banking malware targets Mexico and Spain appeared first on Security Affairs. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

The FBI and NSA have published a joint security alert containing technical details about a new piece of Linux malware, tracked as Drovorub , allegedly employed by Russia-linked the APT28 group. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. The name comes from drovo [?????] .”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2020

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 5G – The Future of Security and Privacy in Smart Cities. Hacker that hit UK National Lottery in 2016 was sentenced to prison. Iranian Threat Actors: Preliminary Analysis. Turkish Hackers hit Greek Government websites and local stock exchange. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Governments should recognize electoral processes as critical infrastructure and enact laws to regulate the use of generative Artificial Intelligence. By broadening the horizon of analysis, it is possible to verify that there will also be elections in China, Japan, Russia, Brazil, and the United Kingdom in the coming months.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Cross-Border Data Privacy and Security Concerns in the Dawn of Quantum Computing. As a result, data has become a critical asset for companies and governments alike, as well as the primary target for nefarious actors and nation states. Data privacy is not a check-the-box compliance or security item. Tue, 12/22/2020 - 10:08.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Phishing Healthcare Military Data collection 106

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Numerous strains of this destructive code have been the front-page news in global computer security chronicles for almost a decade now, with jaw-dropping ups and dramatic downs accompanying its progress. The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. inch diskettes. About the essayist.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

based PCM [ NASDAQ:PCMI ] is a provider of technology products, services and solutions to businesses as well as state and federal governments. Earlier this week, cyber intelligence firm RiskIQ published a lengthy analysis of the hacking group that targeted Wipro, among many other companies. El Segundo, Calif.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations. ” continues the analysis.

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Archiving Communications Government Access 120

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

Here are a few unexpected examples of supposedly anonymous data reversal: •In 2016, the Australian government released what they called the “anonymous” (i. When you go to secure (HTTPS) websites, the requested IP and domain are visible. names and other identifying features were removed) medical data of 2.9

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware. Cyberattack shuts down La Porte County government systems. Spotting RATs: Delphi wrapper makes the analysis harder. UK ICO fines British Airways £183 Million under GDPR over 2018 security breach.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

A nation-state actor is attempting to exploit the Follina flaw in a recent wave of attacks against government entities in Europe and the U.S. An alleged nation-state actor is attempting to exploit the recently disclosed Microsoft Office Follina vulnerability in attacks aimed at government entities in Europe and the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

Critical infrastructure , industrial control (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are under increasing threat of cyber attacks, according to a number of recent warnings from government agencies and private security researchers. Also read: SANS Outlines Critical Infrastructure Security Steps as Russia, U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. Governments in Europe.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

A new sophisticated malware strain, dubbed DownEx, was involved in attacks aimed at Government organizations in Central Asia. In late 2022, Bitdefender Labs researchers first observed a highly targeted cyberattack targeting foreign government institutions in Kazakhstan that involved a new sophisticated strain of malware dubbed DownEx.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2021

Experts spotted the RokRat Trojan being used by North Korea-linked threat actors in attacks aimed at the South Korean government. On December 7 2020 researchers from Malwarebytes uncovered a campaign targeting the South Korean government with a variant of the RokRat RAT. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The data were provided by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which tracks government-backed hacking campaign, which warns of a significant increase in the number of the alert compared to the previous year. ” wrote Ajax Bash, a Google security engineer from the TAG. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

“We found dozens of related samples that had been appearing in the wild since 2016 and had been deployed in various application marketplaces including Google Play.” ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – PhantomLance, hacking).

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Marketing Encryption IT Cybersecurity 107

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Imitating my site, likeness and namesake, BriansClub even dubiously claims a copyright with a reference at the bottom of each page: “© 2019 Crabs on Security.” But business would pick up in each of the years that followed: In 2016, BriansClub uploaded 2.89 at , a thriving fraud bazaar named after this author. million more.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

A deeper analysis revealed that the threat actor CloudWizard has been linked to an activity cluster that dates back to May 2016 that was tracked by ESET researchers as Operation Groundbait. Further analysis revealed that the actor behind the above operations has been active since at least 2008. ” We are in the final! .”

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Interesting analysis of China’s efforts to identify US spies: By about 2010, two former CIA officials recalled, the Chinese security services had instituted a sophisticated travel intelligence program, developing databases that tracked flights and passenger lists for espionage purposes. spies, officials say.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Figures from the ONS (Office of National Statistics) show that security incidents in Cambridgeshire increased from 2,789 in 2016 to 4,155 in 2018. One reason to account for this is that the timeframe of this analysis coincides with major economic growth in the region.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Like NSO Group, QuaDream develops surveillance malware for government and intelligence agencies. QuaDream was founded in 2016 by Ilan Dabelstein, a former Israeli military official, and by two former NSO employees, Guy Geva and Nimrod Reznik. reads the analysis published by citizen L ab. . ” concludes Reuters.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Its author maintains Orcus is a legitimate R emote A dministration T ool that is merely being abused, but security experts say it includes multiple features more typically seen in malware known as a R emote A ccess T rojan. Tips from international private cyber security firms triggered the investigation.”. In 2014, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2021

A security researcher released a new PoC exploit for ProxyLogon issues that could be adapted to install web shells on vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers. A security researcher has released a new proof-of-concept exploit that could be adapted to install web shells on Microsoft Exchange servers vulnerable ProxyLogon issues.

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Military Ransomware Manufacturing Security 115

ForAllSecure

MAY 25, 2021

In a National Cyber Security Alliance report, research showed that of the 1,009 small businesses with 500 employees surveyed, 10% went out of business, 25% filed for bankruptcy, and 37% experienced financial loss. Security’s deep impact on company performance isn’t a thing of the past. The culprit?

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Security Military Marketing Risk 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 25, 2021

In a National Cyber Security Alliance report, research showed that of the 1,009 small businesses with 500 employees surveyed, 10% went out of business, 25% filed for bankruptcy, and 37% experienced financial loss. Security’s deep impact on company performance isn’t a thing of the past. The culprit?

Security 52

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