Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Over the past 20 months, the group targeted at least 30 organizations within 14 nations that are probably of strategic intelligence significance to the Russian government and its military. The group operates out of military unity 26165 of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The group operates out of military unity 26165 of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS). The vulnerability is a Microsoft Outlook spoofing vulnerability that can lead to an authentication bypass. ” reads trhe announcement published by DKWOC.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

DataLocker honed its patented approach to manufacturing encrypted portable drives and landed some key military and government clients early on; the company has continued branching out ever since. All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data. But in certain cases the cloud is not readily accessible.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2022

Microsoft security researchers discovered a post-compromise malware, tracked as MagicWeb, which is used by the Russia-linked NOBELIUM APT group to maintain persistent access to compromised environments. “Like domain controllers, AD FS servers can authenticate users and should therefore be treated with the same high level of security.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

In mere seconds, a hacker remotely accessed a computer belonging to a regional Russian Ministry of Health, taking advantage of sloppy cybersecurity practices to expose its entire network. By using the Shodan search engine, Spielerkid89 soon discovered an open virtual network computing (VNC) port with disabled authentication.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

is an Authentication Bypass issue that resides in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x, A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability to access restricted resources by bypassing control checks. An authenticated administrator can exploit the issue by sending specially crafted requests and execute arbitrary commands on the appliance.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 21, 2022

BitSight found the device in use in 169 countries, with customers including governments, militaries, law enforcement agencies, and aerospace, shipping, and manufacturing companies. The China-based manufacturer says 1.5 million of its tracking devices are deployed across 420,000 customers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2024

is an Authentication Bypass issue that resides in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x, A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability to access restricted resources by bypassing control checks. An authenticated administrator can exploit the issue by sending specially crafted requests and execute arbitrary commands on the appliance.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Experts warn that the Russia-linked APT29 group has been observed targeting JetBrains TeamCity servers to gain initial access to the targets’ networks. The vulnerability is an authentication bypass issue affecting the on-premises version of TeamCity. in TeamCity. TeamCity server version 2023.05.3

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 12, 2018

military information for sale on the Dark Web for a nominal sum, in and of itself, is unfortunate and unremarkable. The Insikt Group determined that the hacker/seller must have accessed a Netgear router with misconfigured FTP login credentials. The discovery of sensitive U.S. The discussion revolves around securing DoD HVAs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2022

Threat actors are exploiting an authentication bypass Zimbra flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-27925, to hack Zimbra Collaboration Suite email servers worldwide. An authentication bypass affecting Zimbra Collaboration Suite, tracked as CVE-2022-27925, is actively exploited to hack ZCS email servers worldwide.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

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. “In 2021, APT28 used infrastructure to masquerade Simple Network Management protocol (SNMP) access into Cisco routers worldwide.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2022

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote actor to exploit access and gain control the global positioning system tracker.” “These vulnerabilities could impact access to a vehicle fuel supply, vehicle control, or allow locational surveillance of vehicles in which the device is installed.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2021

Most targeted sectors have been Government/Military (17% of all exploit attempts), followed by Manufacturing (14%), and then Banking (11%). The third vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-26858 , is a post-authentication arbitrary file write vulnerability in Exchange.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

US and UK cybersecurity agencies said today that a Russian military cyber unit has been behind a series of brute-force attacks that have targeted the cloud IT resources of government and private sector companies across the world. and foreign organizations using brute force access to penetrate government and private sector victim networks.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

However, hashes can still be cracked, and other authentication data may be used in spear phishing attacks. The most significant risk is state-sponsored advanced persistent threats (APT) driven by political and military objectives such as espionage, influence, or proxy warfare.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

“An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could access a user’s Net-NTLMv2 hash which could be used as a basis of an NTLM Relay attack against another service to authenticate as the user,” the company wrote. This will prevent the sending of NTLM authentication messages to remote file shares.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2021

.” Microsoft added that password spray attacks on Office 365 accounts with multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled failed. Below is the list of defensive measures shared by Microsoft to mitigate DEV-0343 attacks: Enable multifactor authentication to mitigate compromised credentials. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

Back in December, the SolarWinds supply chain attack made the headlines when a Russian cyber espionage group tampered with updates for SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management products that the IT company provides to government agencies, military, and intelligence offices. ” reads the incident report published by mimecast.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The report issued by the Inspector General’s office details several basic lapses in security protocols at five separate locations, including: A lack of multifactor authentication to access BMDS technical information. Known and unpatched network vulnerabilities dating back as far as 1990. No physical locks on server racks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

It’s Testing U.S.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Its first applications were securing email and physical access systems in security conscious environments like the military, intelligence community and government. With the explosion of the Internet, PKI became a foundational technology for securing web traffic and authenticating users to applications via technologies like SSL and TLS.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

ZDNet has obtained a copy of the list with the help of threat intelligence firm KELA and verified confirmed the authenticity of the data. Unauthenticated remote attacker with network access via HTTPS can send a specially crafted URI to perform an arbitrary file reading vulnerability.” reads the advisory.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Finally, the Department of Commerce will develop new standards for content authentication and watermarking for AI-generated content, and U.S. AI use by the military and intelligence community. AI use by the military and intelligence community. federal agencies will use these standards to mark content that they generate.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

Additionally, tests can be internal or external and with or without authentication. Attackers usually contact workers, targeting those with administrative or high-level access via email, calls, social media, and other approaches. Whatever approach and parameters you set, make sure that expectations are clear before you start.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2022

MORE: Gazprom's data is now for public access: [link] — Anonymous TV (@YourAnonTV) March 4, 2022. At the moment it has not been possible to verify the authenticity of the published documents, therefore the reliability of the source remains difficult to verify.”

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

IoT devices help remotely control our household appliances, power plants, smart buildings, factories, airports, shipyards, trucks, trains and military. Most companies have only a vague sense of all of the IoT sensors tied into their networks, and each device represents an access path beckoning intruders. And we’re just getting started.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. And there were many good reasons to support this conclusion.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 16, 2018

When I first wrote about Cloud Access Security Brokers in 2015, so-called CASBs were attracting venture capital by the truckloads — and winning stunning customer testimonials. While cloud services give companies amazing flexibility and scalability, they also create endless additional vulnerable access points.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 3, 2021

credit or debit card number, or any financial account number in combination with any required security code, access code or password that would permit access to such financial account.

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Also: The New Face of Insider Threats with Code42 As Cyber Attacks Mount, Small Businesses seek Authentication Fix. Senior Director Product Management, Identity Access Management, at LogMeIn. But how do we finally ditch the password and embrace something stronger, that’s resilient, easier to use and harder to abuse?

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 18, 2020

Near the end of the movie the Rebel Alliance infiltrates the Imperial Center of Military Research on the planet Scarif (i.e., The Rebels engaged in social engineering tactics—using ways of fooling the user into providing data or access to information—to steal the schematic plans for the Death Star. Scarif base).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 30, 2019

encryption, two-factor authentication and key management) to protect their data from hackers. military and Apple regularly offering rewards to anyone who can find and report vulnerabilities. Implementing techniques like encryption, strong key management and multifactor authentication should be necessities.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 9, 2019

Further, the expanded definition now includes “username or email address in combination with a password or security questions and answers that would permit access to an online account” (without an individual’s name). Method of Notification.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 22, 2020

Expand the definition of a breach to include login credentials, meaning “a consumer’s user name or e-mail address, in combination with a password or an answer to a security question, that together permit access to an online account.”

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