Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2019

Security experts from ESET uncovered a cyber-espionage group tracked as Machete that stole sensitive files from the Venezuelan military. Security experts from ESET reported that a cyberespionage group tracked as Machete has stolen sensitive files from the Venezuelan military. ” reads the analysis from ESET. .”

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on Russian military intelligence officers for 2015 Bundestag hack. The 85th Main Centre for Special Services (GTsSS) is the military unit of the Russian government also tracked as APT28 (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Security researchers at ESET recently uncovered a campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

National Security Agency (NSA) is warning that Russia-linked APT group tracked Sandworm Team has been exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149) in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software since at least August 2019. The CVE-2019-10149 flaw, aka “The Return of the WIZard,” affects versions 4.87

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Snatch gang claims the hack of the Department of Defence South Africa and added the military organization to its leak site. The group claims to have stolen Military contracts, internal call signs and personal data, for a total of 1.6 HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. TB of data.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

ZDNet has reported in exclusive that a list of plaintext usernames and passwords for 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, along with IP addresses, has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. According to Bank Security , all the Pulse Secure VPN servers included in the list were vulnerable to the CVE-2019-11510 flaw.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Security experts at vpnMentor’s discovered a breach in a database belonging to Autoclerk, a reservations management system owned by Best Western Hotels and Resorts Group. The list of affected users includes the US government, military, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). . ” . . ” continues vpnMento r.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

Experts uncovered a new cyber-espionage campaign, dubbed “ Operation In(ter)receptio n,” aimed at aerospace and military organizations in Europe and the Middle East. ” The campaign has been active between September and December 2019, ESET researchers speculate the involvement of the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the defendant was busted in March 2022, after fleeing mandatory military service in Ukraine in the weeks following the Russian invasion. 18 fleeing mandatory military service in Ukraine. investigators by Polish border security officials, and it shows Sokolovsky leaving Poland for Germany on Mar.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2019

Locked Shields 2019 – France wins, the world’s biggest and most advanced international cyber drills organized by NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Center of Excellence (CCDCOE). . The team from France won the cyber defence exercise Locked Shields 2019 Czech and Swedish team take second and third place respectively.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

Security experts have found a malicious app in the Google Play that exploits the recently patched CVE-2019-2215 zero-day vulnerability. Earlier October, Google Project Zero researchers Maddie Stone publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2019-2215 , in Android. ” reads a blog post published by Stone.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2021

The second Hack the Army bug bounty program ran between October 9 and November 15, 2019 through the HackerOne platform. We’re calling on civilian and military hackers to show us what they’ve got in this bug bounty and to help train the future force.”. There is only one way to secure our connected society, together, and the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2020

China-linked cyber espionage groups increasingly targeted organizations in the telecommunications industry in 2019. “Analysis in 2019 revealed a focus by Chinese adversaries on the telecommunications sector, which could support both signals intelligence and further upstream targeting. ” reads the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

In January, the company disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data, at the time, it claimed that attackers did not obtain sensitive information about defense contracts. The intrusion took place on June 28, 2019, and the company launched an investigation in September 2019.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2022

Ukraine CERT-UA published a security advisory to warn of spear-phishing attacks conducted by Russia-linked Armageddon APT (aka Gamaredon , Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) targeting local state organizations. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ARMA International

JANUARY 30, 2020

On December 23, Yahoo News [1] reported on a Department of Defense memo [2] warning military personnel that using direct-to-consumer (DTC) DNA testing could pose “personal and operational risks.” Notably, in its opening paragraph, the missive cites “unintended security consequences and increased risk to the joint force and mission.”.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Citrix releases permanent fixes for CVE-2019-19781 flaw in ADC 11.1 OP Glowing Symphony – How US military claims to have disrupted ISIS ‘s propaganda. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 248 appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2021

The Council Decision (CFSP) 2019/797 was established on May 17, 2019, it allows member states to invoke EU-wide sanctions against threat actors that carried out cyberattacks against their governments or the EU. The post European Council extends sanctions against foreign threat actors appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. European Commission has chosen the Signal app to secure its communications. Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram blocked in Turkey as Idlib military crisis escalates. Lampion malware v2 February 2020.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Now that it’s September, the excitement is beginning to build in earnest for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Just a couple of months after that, World Rugby itself announced that one of its training websites had suffered a security breach that exposed subscribers’ account information.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

According to security researchers from Trend Micro, the Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group has been scanning vulnerable email servers for more than a year. The cyberespionage group continues to target members of defense companies, embassies, governments, and the military. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Cyber security department director Chien Hung-wei told parliament representatives that government infrastructure faces “five million attacks and scans a day” . On the other end, the Chinese government considers the island its territory and does not exclude its military occupation in the future. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The trio has worked as hackers-for-hire for the United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company DarkMatter between January 2016 and November 2019. DOJ also ordered the former intelligence employees to cooperate with the relevant department and FBI components; they are also condemned to a lifetime ban on future US security clearances.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

No details , though: According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May 14, 2019.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. A new piece of Ryuk Stealer targets government, military and finance sectors. Which was the most common threat to macOS devices in 2019? Attacks on Citrix servers increase after the release of CVE-2019-19781 exploits. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived!

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Google fixes a critical DoS flaw tracked as CVE-2019-2232 in Android. City of Pensacola hit by a cyberattack few days after military base shooting. Snatch Ransomware force systems to Windows Safe Mode to bypass security solutions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

The activity of the Lyceum APT group was first documented earlier in August 2019 by researchers at ICS security firm Dragos which tracked it as Hexane. The attack chain observed by the researchers starts with spear-phishing messages using weaponized Word document disguised as a news report related to military affairs in Iran.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ukraine’s premier law enforcement and counterintelligence disclosed the real identities of five alleged members of the Russia-linked APT group Gamaredon (aka Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) that are suspected to be components of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). ” concludes the announcement.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2020

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE are considered as national security threats. regulators declared Huawei and ZTE to be national security threats. In November 2019, the U.S. Last week China accused the US government of “oppressing Chinese companies” after U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2021

Chinese military unit PLA Unit 61419 is suspected to be involved in cyber-espionage campaigns against multiple antivirus companies. Experts speculate the cyberspies have purchased the security software to study them and find zero-day vulnerabilities that could be exploited in an attack or to test the detection of new malware.

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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. Koot (@mrkoot) April 26, 2019.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Security experts from Cyble found alleged sensitive documents of NATO and Turkey, is it a case of cyber hacktivism or cyber espionage? “Based on the message body of the leak, the cyber attack indicates hacktivism, but last year, around May 23, 2019, UK warned NATO allies of hacking activities of Russia -> Link.

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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 post FBI and NSA joint report details APT28’s Linux malware Drovorub appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MARCH 7, 2021

The annual national security threat assessment report released by Lithuania’s State Security Department states that Russia-linked APT groups conducted cyber-attacks against top Lithuanian officials and decision-makers last in 2020. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

The Cyclops Blink malware has been active since at least June 2019, it targets WatchGuard Firebox and other Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) network devices. Since June 2019, the malware indicted WatchGuard devices and Asus routers in many countries, including in the U.S., ” reads the advisory published by TrendMicro.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2020

The Irish government has published its National Cyber Security Strategy ?, The 2019 National Cyber Security Strategy aims to allow Ireland to continue to safely enjoy the benefits of the digital revolution and play a full part in shaping the future of the Internet. SecurityAffairs – National Cyber Security Strategy?,

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