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Russia-linked APT28 targets government Polish institutions

Security Affairs

jpg.exe , which pretends to be a photo and is used to trick the recipient into clicking on it, script.bat (hidden file), fake library WindowsCodecs.dll (hidden file). The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. The attack chain includes the download of a ZIP archive file from webhook[.]site,

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 249

Security Affairs

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. A new piece of Ryuk Stealer targets government, military and finance sectors. CVE-2020-7247 RCE flaw in OpenSMTPD library affects many BSD and Linux distros. Hackers penetrated NEC defense business division in 2016. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! Magento 2.3.4

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RIM-brain in Movies and TV

The Texas Record

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). While watching Rogue One , I could not help but notice the implications for the protection and security of Imperial records. Near the end of the movie the Rebel Alliance infiltrates the Imperial Center of Military Research on the planet Scarif (i.e., Dr. Who – Silence in the Library.

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Exclusive: Pakistan and India to armaments: Operation Transparent Tribe is back 4 years later

Security Affairs

The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. The two dll are legit windows library and are used in support of the malicious behaviour.

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Latest Turla backdoor leverages email PDF attachments as C&C mechanism

Security Affairs

In June 2016, researchers from Kaspersky reported that the Turla APT had started using rootkit), Epic Turla (Wipbot and Tavdig) and Gloog Turla. The backdoor is a standalone DLL (dynamic link library) that interacts with Outlook and The Bat! ” reads the analysis published by ESET. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events.

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The Russia-linked APT29 is behind recent attacks targeting NATO and EU

Security Affairs

Poland’s Military Counterintelligence Service and its Computer Emergency Response Team linked a recent string of attacks targeting NATO and European Union countries to the Russia-linked APT29 group (aka SVR group , Cozy Bear , Nobelium , and The Dukes ). The Military Counterintelligence Service and CERT.PL