Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

Russia-linked Cold River APT targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States in 2022 summer, Reuters reported. Reuters reported that the Russia-linked APT group Cold River (aka Calisto) targeted three nuclear research laboratories in the United States between August and September 2022. labs occurred as U.N.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

PingPull, was first spotted by Unit 42 in June 2022, the researchers defined the RAT as a “difficult-to-detect” backdoor that leverages the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for C2 communications. ” reads the analysis published by Unit 42. Analysis of the C2 for a second Sword2033 sample revealed that the domain *.saspecialforces.co[.]za

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In March 2023, security firm Proofpoint observed the group actively exploiting vulnerabilities ( CVE-2022-27926 ) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

China-linked Curious Gorge APT is targeting Russian government agencies, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that an APT group linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLA SSF), tracked as Curious Gorge , is targeting Russian government agencies.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2022

The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. The recent wave of attacks began on July 15 and was ongoing as recently as August 8, 2022. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. ” The files were hosted on a subdomain known to be associated with Shuckworm activity since May 2022.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

Russia-linked threat actors launched large-volume phishing campaigns against hundreds of users in Ukraine to gather intelligence and aimed at spreading disinformation, states Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). ” reads the report published by the Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2022

The flaws were discovered by BitSight researchers, they have been tracked as CVE-2022-2107; CVE-2022-2141; CVE-2022-2199; CVE-2022-34150; and CVE-2022-33944. MiCODUS is used today by 420,000 customers in multiple industries, including government, military, law enforcement agencies, and Fortune 1000 companies.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Their analysis shows that the civil aviation sector of terrorist Russia is on the verge of collapse.” In the same period in 2022, 50 such incidents were recorded. As of March 2022, Russia had about 820 foreign-made civilian aircraft. ” continues the announcement. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2022

“In early 2022, we investigated one such IIS backdoor: SessionManager. In late April 2022, most of the samples we identified were still not flagged as malicious in a popular online file scanning service, and SessionManager was still deployed in over 20 organizations.” ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2022

The campaign took place in February and Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team was not able to link it to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) director Shane Huntley confirmed that the IT giant was able to detect and block all phishing messages. — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) March 8, 2022.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

The analysis of encryption techniques employed in the attack allowed the government experts to associate the campaign with the cybercrime group Trickbot. The alert published by the Ukraine CERT-UA includes Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this campaign and recommendations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

” reads the analysis published by Barnea. ” Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed a Russian threat actor exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 flaw in targeted attacks against several organizations in the European government, transportation, energy, and military sectors, for approximately a year. ” concludes the expert.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

The malicious macro attachment used the Emergency Meeting of the NATO Security Council held on February 23, 2022, as bait. ” reads the analysis published by ProofPoint. “Proofpoint researchers have identified a phishing campaign originating from an email address (ukr[.]net)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

” reads the analysis published ZScaler. 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. ” APT groups continue to evolve their TTPs and embrace new anti-analysis and anti-evasion techniques.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

RedFoxtrot has been active since at least 2014 and focused on gathering military intelligence from neighboring countries, it is suspected to work under the PLA China-linked Unit 69010. ” reads the analysis published by SentinelOne. SentinelOne detailed lateral movements, credential harvesting, and data exfiltration.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG. In one case, the group posed as a journalist for a South Korean news agency and sent benign emails with an interview request to North Korea experts.”

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2022

Per analysis available from SaaS Alerts, attack trend lines that compare Russia and China show almost the exact same pattern.” reported that hackers – some linked to Russian GRU military intelligence – breached computers at nearly two dozen U.S. Also read: Best Network Monitoring Tools for 2022.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2022

Look forward to today's @AdvIntel with extended analysis! VK_Intel pic.twitter.com/gMSXhlHVSb — Yelisey Boguslavskiy (@y_advintel) May 19, 2022. The agency is responsible for national, military and police intelligence, as well as counterintelligence. ” reported BleepingComputer. GB of data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

The latest samples of this spyware were detected by the researchers in April 2022, four months after a series of nation-wide protests against government policies that were violently suppressed. ” reads the analysis published by Lookout. “According to its own website , Tykelab provides innocuous technology solutions.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. The affected organizations, both governmental and military, show that this group is focused on very high-profile targets and is probably used to achieve critical goals, likely related to geopolitical interests.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It marks the Biden Administration’s most comprehensive action on artificial intelligence policy, building upon the Administration’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (issued in October 2022) and its announcement (in July 2023) of securing voluntary commitments from 15 leading AI companies to manage AI risks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Data Matters

JUNE 16, 2021

semiconductor production, scientific research, development of artificial intelligence, and space exploration in the face of growing economic, technological, and military competition from China. Senate adopted by a 68-32 vote S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Sens.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2023

Citizen Lab reported that Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group used at least three iOS zero-click exploits in 2022. The researchers discovered that in 2022, NSO Group customers used at least three iOS 15 and iOS 16 zero-click exploit chains against civil society targets worldwide. ” reads the report. ” reads the report.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

I met up with Lee at Black Hat USA 2022. So the threats that we look after are ones that you would see popular in the wild and against the customers that work large financial institutions, militaries, the US military, foreign militaries, NATO partners, how well do they defend and react against these threats?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

The ColdRiver APT (aka “ Seaborgium “, “Callisto”, “Star Blizzard”, “TA446”) is a Russian cyberespionage group that has been targeting government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since at least 2015. In November 2022, TAG spotted COLDRIVER sending targets benign PDF documents from impersonation accounts.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The new iteration of the Standard, ISO 27001:2022, isn’t significantly different from ISO 27001:2013, but there are some notable changes. That’s it for this week’s round-up.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. billion in cyber crime losses in 2023 – a 22% increase on 2022’s figures. Learn more about complying with ISO 27001:2022. New IC3 report: US lost $12.5

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Or even basic low level threat analysis. Then 2020 2021 The first part of 2022 happened, ransomware went wild and so many of the cyber insurance companies they were reading were against the ropes and struggling because the payouts were written against what were initially rather loose policies. Often they lack the visibility of a SOC.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. NATO to launch new cyber centre Acknowledging that “cyberspace is contested at all times”, NATO will create a new cyber centre at its military headquarters in Mons, Belgium.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

The move comes just weeks after Chinese security researchers published an analysis suggesting the popular e-commerce app sought to seize total control over affected devices by exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in a variety of Android-based smartphones. The three Samsung exploits that DarkNavy says were used by the malicious app.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

VAMOSI: Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 28, 2022, members of the Conti ransomware group began leaking information about the internal operations. It's a tower of Babel, they're just getting like, a lot of data but there's no synthesis of it, no analysis of it. Are Ransomware attacks getting worse?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2023

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

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

They started out with: "As Putin began his invasion of Ukraine, a network used throughout Europe—and by the Ukrainian military—faced an unprecedented cyberattack that doubled as an industrywide wake-up call. The KnowBe4 blog initially reported on this hack on March 24, 2022 here: [link] and in our CyberheistNews May 17, 2022 here: [link].

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