Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. Gallmaker is a politically motivated APT group that focused its surgical operations on the government, military or defense sectors.

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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

Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage APT group (also known as Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON) that has been active since at least 2007 targeting government organizations and private businesses. The backdoor is a standalone DLL (dynamic link library) that interacts with Outlook and The Bat!

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. 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. Dixons Carphone admitted suffering a major data breach in July 2017, involving 5.9

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Unwritten Record

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Governments and businesses around the world proactively prepared their computer systems to seamlessly to the year 2000 rather than travel back to 1900. The Air Force has many Military Working Dogs. Humanity’s worst fears about a Y2K meltdown on January 1, 2000 never came to pass. Is it time for a ferret unit?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). For example from 2017 to early 2018 APT28 used specific techniques such as: T1251 , T1329 , T1336 and T1319.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

At the time, only about 60,000 computers had access to the internet, mostly at universities and within the military. If the infected PC is a client in a local network, such as a library or office, any shared resources are targeted first. What do these two malware attacks have in common?

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