Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

A previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ has been targeting military and government entities since 2018. The messages use specially crafted archives containing LNK files disguised as regular documents. The experts observed multiple spear-phishing attempts between March and May 2023.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million newborns and pregnancy care patients Xenomorph malware is back after months of hiatus and expands the list of targets Smishing Triad Stretches Its Tentacles into the United Arab Emirates Crooks stole $200 million worth of assets from Mixin Network A phishing campaign targets Ukrainian military entities with drone manual lures Alert!

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2023

The Gamaredon APT group (aka Shuckworm, Actinium, Armageddon, Primitive Bear, UAC-0010, and Trident Ursa) continues to carry out attacks against entities in Ukraine, including security services, military, and government organizations. ” reads the report published by Symantec.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

In February 2023, EclecticIQ researchers spotted multiple KamiKakaBot malware samples that were employed by the Dark Pink APT group (aka Saaiwc) in attacks against government entities in Southeast Asia countries. dll), and a decoy Microsoft Word document. ” reads the analysis published by EclecticIQ.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2024

Last week, software firm Ivanti reported that threat actors are exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2024-21887) in Connect Secure (ICS) and Policy Secure to remotely execute arbitrary commands on targeted gateways. The flaw CVE-2023-46805 (CVSS score 8.2) x and Ivanti Policy Secure.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for March 2023 includes patches for more than 70 vulnerabilities, including zero-day flaws in Outlook and in Windows SmartScreen. Critical Outlook Zero-Day The Outlook zero-day, CVE-2023-23397 , with a critical CVSS score of 9.8, Office documents? is being actively exploited. all of them?)

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Preservica

DECEMBER 29, 2022

From academic institutions and government agencies to corporate businesses and the health sector, 2022 was full of world events that will shape our history forever. The new Charter incorporates 7 Sustainability Principles around data, software, operations, knowledge, finance, governance, and environmental impact.

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Check out these previous The Unwritten Record posts by Kquinn for more interesting “random” finds in our Catalog: – Hole World (February 21, 2023) – Bird is the Word (November 1, 2022) Left Image: Photograph of Farm People Eating Breakfast. Proper credit lines are encouraged in the interest of good documentation.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the early hours of the morning of Saturday 9 December 2023, the European Parliament (the Parliament) and the Council of the EU (the Council) reached an agreement on the outstanding points on the EU’s Regulation on artificial intelligence (AI Act). It does not apply systems used for purely military or defence purposes.

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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. 15:3000, and was likely active around August and September 2023.”

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IT Governance

AUGUST 1, 2023

IT Governance found 87 publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2023, accounting for 146,290,598 breached records. Also be sure to check out our new page, which provides a complete list of data breaches and cyber attacks for 2023. million) Milliman Solutions notifies patients of third-party breach involving MOVEit (1.2

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Info Source

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The sanctions weaken Russia’s ability to finance the war and specifically target the political, military and economic elite responsible for the invasion. Pressure is growing on the Russian economy as imports increase faster than exports and military spending grows. The restrictive measures do not target Russian society primarily.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 | May 9th, 2023 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users Compromised websites (legitimate sites that have been successfully compromised to support social engineering) are serving visitors fake Google Chrome update error messages. The message displayed reads, "UPDATE EXCEPTION.

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Info Source

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

THE IMPACT OF WAR Since February 2022, Ukraine has withstood Europe’s largest full-scale military aggression since World War II. Most of the taxes and funds from the European Union are used for military purposes. However, in H1 2023, Canon took the leading market position with a 58.8% Others sink into a negative attitude.

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Info Source

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The allocation of taxes and funds from the European Union towards military efforts has hindered economic growth, resulting in stagnation. PRINTING MARKET STATS As the 6th largest market in Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), the Ukrainian market started to register growth in H1 2023, despite the ongoing war with Russia. Canon was the No.

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Info Source

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The allocation of taxes and funds from the European Union towards military efforts has hindered economic growth, resulting in stagnation. PRINTING MARKET STATS As the 6th largest market in Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), the Ukrainian market started to register growth in H1 2023, despite the ongoing war with Russia. Canon was the No.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 18, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #16 | April 18th, 2023 [Finger on the Pulse]: How Phishers Leverage Recent AI Buzz Curiosity leads people to suspend their better judgment as a new campaign of credential theft exploits a person's excitement about the newest AI systems not yet available to the general public.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

28, 2023, researchers at the Chinese security firm DarkNavy published a blog post purporting to show evidence that a major Chinese ecommerce company’s app was using this same three-exploit chain to read user data stored by other apps on the affected device, and to make its app nearly impossible to remove.

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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

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #10 | March 7th, 2023 [Eye Opener] BusinessWeek: The Satellite Hack Everyone Is Finally Talking About This week, Bloomberg News pointed at a brand-new article at BusinessWeek, one of their media properties. government. It is an excellent wake-up call for your C-level execs and powerful budget ammo.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Russia’s asymmetrical cyber-attacks have been a well-documented, rising global concern for most of the 2000s. C yber a ttack s on Georgia (2008 , 2019 ) Georgian government websites get defaced; thousands of government and private websites get blocked, including two major TV stations. It’s not just Russia.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Not the LockBit gang is attempting to relaunch its RaaS operation, the group has set up a new infrastructure and is threatening to carry out cyber attacks on the government sector. The FBI breached two main servers of the gang that were running outdated PHP versions vulnerable to the flaw CVE-2023-3824.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2023

military in disrupting cybercriminal infrastructure, and it names China as the single biggest cyber threat to U.S. government’s efforts to restrain China’s technology prowess involve ongoing initiatives like the CHIPS Act, a new law signed by President Biden last year that sets aside more than $50 billion to expand U.S. .”

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