Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 And why the attacker used an encrypted payload if the victim cannot open it? Stage1: Encrypted Content.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

Earlier versions of Agent.BTZ were used to compromise US military networks in the Middle East in 2008. Despite their extensions, the attachments are not Office documents, but rather encrypted blobs of data that include a specific command to be executed.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. I told Greenwald that he and Laura Poitras should be sending large encrypted files of dummy documents back and forth every day.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

This vulnerability was addressed in Dec 2017 in the 4.14 SideWinder, a group that has been active since 2012, is a known threat and has reportedly targeted military entities’ Windows machines. Collected data is encrypted using RSA and AES encryption algorithms, then it is sent to the C&C server. kernel [4].

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Originally Featured in Global Military Communications Magazine’s June/July Issue. Question: According to the report, in the past year, 57 percent of federal respondents experienced a data breach, compared with 34 percent in 2017 and 18 percent in 2016. What can you tell us about these breaches, and why are they becoming so prolific?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Precision engineering is a very important business market in Europe, it includes developing mechanical equipment for: automotive, railways, heavy industries and military grade technology. Object-3 exploiting CVE-2017-11882. Everything looks like real except for the third object included into the Excel file.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

The new analysis conducted by ESET revealed that hackers breached Germany’s Federal Foreign Office , Turla infected several computers and used the backdoor to syphon data for almost the whole of 2017. This is a binary blob with a special format that contains encrypted commands for the backdoor ,” reads the report released by ESET.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

million US customers had been affected by 2017’s Equifax breach , bringing the total number of victims to 147.9 In May, the Department of Health and Social Care signed a deal with Microsoft to upgrade the NHS’s extensive IT estate to Windows 10 in an attempt to bolster its cyber resilience in the wake of 2017’s WannaCry ransomware outbreak.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 18, 2019

The disclosure that malicious intruders hacked the computer systems of the South Korean government agency that oversees weapons and munitions acquisitions for the country’s military forces is not much of a surprise. In October 2017, for instance, South Korea accused North Korea of stealing the South Korean-U.S.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Digital commerce from day one has revolved around companies bulling forward to take full advantage of wondrous decentralized, anonymous characteristics of the Internet, which began a military-academic experiment. Your recent white paper shows it’s still at as high a level as in 2017?

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Encrypting critical data assets. In January 2017, seeking to provide practical advice for directors to address their oversight responsibilities, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) released its (revised) Handbook on Cyber-Risk Oversight (NACD Handbook). Encrypting Critical Data Assets.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

The Brazilian aerospace giant Embrarer manufactures commercial, executive and military aircraft and are the world’s third largest aircraft manufacturer after Boeing and Airbus. The Cyber-attack resulted in a large volume of data to be encrypted including database servers and backup data.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

There is of course a lot of security around these digital releases, for example, there's watermarks, digital certificates, and even keys at the code, the encrypted copies of the films in specific theaters for specific periods of time. Yet, somewhere in China. When digital production servers slipped through the cracks.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? This is the app used in West Virginia that allowed overseas military personnel to vote on the 2018 election.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? This is the app used in West Virginia that allowed overseas military personnel to vote on the 2018 election.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In the case of double-extortion ransomware attacks, malware is used to not only encrypt the victim’s data but also exfiltrate sensitive files, such as customer information, which attackers then threaten to release publicly.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The governments of Britain and the US declared that Russia’s military intelligence service GRU is behind the massive cyber attack that hit Georgia during 2019. The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

And Lamb later found evidence that the election-related files he found were all deleted from the server on March 2, 2017. Things like network encryption, certificate pinning - is this device domain joined or not? This is the app used in West Virginia that allowed overseas military personnel to vote on the 2018 election.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 10, 2018

Earlier this month, the Pentagon stopped selling phones made by the Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei on military bases because they might be used to spy on their users. In 2017, the Indian government identified 42 smartphone apps that China subverted. Members of the military, and everyone else, can still buy the phones.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

For example, just last month Strava, a popular fitness navigation app, accidentally revealed the location of military bases in war zones worldwide potentially putting troops and U.S. This marks a huge jump from the 2017 report (34% of breached) and the 2016 report (18%). Breaking barriers with encryption. The numbers don’t lie.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. According to a report published by Symantec in October, the group was actively conducting cyber espionage campaigns against government and military organizations in Europe and South America.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

French p residential e lection Interference (2017) Leaks and fake news is similarly spread in attempts to influence the presidential election. and Israel, 2005 – 2010,) Operation Aurora (China, 2009,) the Sony Pictures hack (North Korea, 2015,) and WannaCry (North Korea, 2017.)

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Encryption ranges from very weak to possibly strong , depending on which flavor the system uses. In 2017, the public-interest forensics group Citizen Lab uncovered an extensive eavesdropping campaign against Mexican lawyers , journalists , and opposition politicians -- presumably run by the government.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

Military operatives and intelligence units today routinely hack to knock down critical infrastructure, interfere with elections, and even to exact revenge on Hollywood studios. And a Twitter audit conducted in January 2017, just after Trump was sworn in, showed him with 22.7 million Twitter followers – 16.6 million real, and 6.1

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

That May 10th air strike by the Israel Defense Force marked the first use of military force in direct retaliation for cyber spying. This comes as no surprise to anyone in the military or intelligence communities. nuclear arsenal in 2003 • Breaches of computers at the Department of Commerce in 2006 • Hacking of military systems at U.S.

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