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. According to experts from Symantec, the group is now actively conducting cyber espionage campaigns against government and military organizations in Europe and South America.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2019

The Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) warn of “worrying” cyber espionage activities carried out by Russia and China. The Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) warn of “worrying” cyber espionage activities carried out by Russia and China.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. The NIS Directive was enacted in the UK as the NIS Regulations on 10 May.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. government IT contractor that does business with more than 20 federal agencies, including several branches of the military.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Government of Pyongyang focuses on crypto hacking to fund its military program following harsh U.N. According to local media, US federal prosecutors believe that North Korea’s government considers cryptocurrency a long-term investment and it is amassing crypto funds through illegal activities. ” reported the AP agency.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2021

The Swedish Sports Confederation organization was compromised in 2017-18 by hackers working for Russian military intelligence, officials said. In the same period, Russia-linked hackers working for the military intelligence service GRU targeted other prominent sporting bodies, including World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and FIFA.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

The Government Team for Response to Computer Emergencies of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns of spear-phishing messages conducted by UAC-0035 group (aka InvisiMole) against Ukrainian state bodies. In past campaigns, the group targeted a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on a Russia-linked military espionage unit, as well as companies operating for Chinese and North Korean threat actors that launched cyber-attacks against the EU and its member states. ” states the Council of the European Union.” ” conclude the EU.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2020

Last week China accused the US government of “oppressing Chinese companies” after U.S. The Federal Communications Commission blocked the Chinese companies from receiving subsidies from a government fund. “We organizations from using government Universal Service Fund for acquiring equipment or services provided by the Chinese firms.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Experts at Symantec first exposed the activity of the Chinese-linked APT Thrip in 2018, now the security firm confirms that cyber espionage group has continued to carry out attacks in South East Asia. The China-linked APT group Thrip is continuing to target entities in Southeast Asia even after its activity was uncovered by Symantec.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

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. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It consists of government laws, rulings from the tax authorities, judicial decisions, and legal opinions. One of the things in it was a typo that accidentally categorized military death benefits as earned income. That 2017 earned income tax bug for military families hasn’t yet been fixed. That’s a bug, but not a vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February 2018 when researchers revealed that the APT group leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to deliver malware to South Korean users. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016.

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Threatpost

JUNE 19, 2018

government and military in 2017 (which wasn't made public until 2018). This is the first evidence of the China-linked threat actor's activity since hacked the U.K.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Department of Justice announced charges against six members of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency for their alleged role in several major cyberattacks conducted over the past years. The crimes committed by Russian government officials were against real victims who suffered real harm.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I was recently privileged to be part of a group of journalists covering the 2018 North American International Cyber Summit at Detroit’s Cobo Convention Center. Other hubs followed at military bases, other state universities and even a high school and a non-profit community arts and tech center. Cobo Center. They answered, yes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Affected sectors include government, military, academic, business and healthcare,”. The CVE-2018-13379 flaw could be exploited to obtain administrator credentials in plain text. APT groups also exploit CVE-2018-13382, CVE-2018-13383, and CVE-2019-1579, in Palo Alto Networks products.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This is notable because in 2018, Pankov and Dudorenko were convicted of cigarette smuggling in the United Kingdom. Incidentally, Davies was detained by Ukrainian authorities in 2018, although he is not mentioned by name in this story from the Ukrainian daily Pravda. Docklands Enterprise Ltd., is Sergey Valentinov Pankov. John Bernard.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The list of Crypto’s customers included Iran, India and Pakistan, military juntas in Latin America and the Vatican. Crypto was liquidated in 2018, but its products are still in use in more than a dozen countries. The company was completely under the control of the spy agencies since 1970. That’s not credible,” he said.

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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. Zebrocy is mainly used against governments and commercial organizations engaged in foreign affairs.

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CGI

JULY 19, 2018

Is the federal government ready for robotic process automation? Thu, 07/19/2018 - 04:38. Don’t think of the shambling, clanking humanoid automatons from 1950s sci-fi, or even the sleek bomb-disposal robots used today by the military and police departments. harini.kottees….

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2019

The cyber mercenaries were recruited by governments and private companies, it was composed of highly skilled hackers able to conduct sophisticated attacks. Military contractors, shipbuilders, satellite operators, high-tech companies ) in Japan and South Korea. Some samples for both variants have been compiled between 2014 and 2019.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Iran ’s Passive Defense Organization chief Gholamreza Jalali declared that the US government has started its cyber war against the country. Jalali is an Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) brigadier general, in November 2018 he announced that government experts have uncovered and neutralized a new strain of Stuxnet.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 12, 2019

The details and scope of the damage caused by the attack are still unclear, but the activity has been tracked back to Iridium, a hacking group linked to the Iranian government. Resecurity previously alerted Citrix that their systems had been targeted by Iridium in late December 2018, according to president Charles Yoo.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2022

The United States banned government agencies from using Kaspersky defense solutions since 2017, The company rejected any allegation and also clarified that Russian policies and laws are applied to telecoms and ISPs, not security firms like Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2018

The Australian government considers risky the involvement of Huawei for the rolling out of next-generation 5G communication networks. — Huawei Australia (@HuaweiOZ) August 22, 2018. The Chinese firm denies having shared Australian customer data with the Chinese intelligence, but it is not enough for the Australian Government.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

“The CRTC executed a warrant under Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) and the RCMP National Division executed a search warrant under the Criminal Code respectively,” reads a statement published last week by the Canadian government. ” “I am not your A-typical computer geek, Brian,” he wrote in a 2018 email. “I

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The UK agency reported that APT groups target several vulnerabilities, including CVE-2019-11510 and CVE-2019-11539 in Pulse Secure VPN solutions, and CVE-2018-13379 , The CVE-2018-13379 is a path traversal vulnerability in the FortiOS SSL VPN web portal that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to download FortiOS system files.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 28, 2020

government transforms the regulations restricting the availability of U.S.-sourced This long-awaited ANPRM launches an intra-agency review process required under Section 1758 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA), which Congress passed in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (2019 NDAA).

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National Archives Records Express

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Due to the increased interest in this schedule, and to promote greater transparency and public comment on the DOI request, we have extended this period until November 26, 2018. One of the main reasons for the existence of the National Archives is to make government records accessible. We are currently in the public comment period.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

government announced the disruption of the Cyclops Blink botnet operated by the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. government announced that it had dismantled the Cyclops Blink botnet operated by the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. “The Russian government has recently used similar infrastructure to attack Ukrainian targets.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2019

Cloud Atlas threat actors used a new piece of polymorphic malware in recent attacks against government organizations. The Cloud Atlas cyberespionage group, aka Inception, continues to carry out attacks against government organizations and was observed using a new piece of polymorphic malware dubbed VBShower.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Someone sent this to me just today: pic.twitter.com/1ukVDcMKZT — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 17, 2018 I had a lot of discussions with companies trying to work out how to handle this incident as it relates to employees using their work addresses. Thirdly and finally, it's up to organisations to self-govern.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Justice Department indicted three North Korean military intelligence officials, members of the Lazarus APT group, for their involvement in cyber-attacks, including the theft of $1.3 In 2018, the U.S. government as “ FASTCash ” – including the October 2018 theft of $6.1 ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The Sofacy APT group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. In September 2018, security experts from ESET spotted the first UEFI rootkit of ever, the code tracked as LoJax was used in attacks in the wild.

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InfoGovNuggets

OCTOBER 26, 2018

“Apple CEO Urges Action on Data Misuse,” The Wall Street Journal , October 25, 2018 B1. Claims “[o]ur own information … is being weaponized against us with military efficiency.” Tim Cook wants GDPR-style privacy protections in the US. How do we wrest control of our information back again?

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