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A new piece of Ryuk Stealer targets government, military and finance sectors

Security Affairs

A new piece of the Ryuk malware has been improved to steal confidential files related to the military, government, financial statements, and banking. Targeted keywords in the new variant of the Ryuk stealer confirm that attackers are looking for confidential information in military, banking, finance and law enforcement.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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XDSpy APT remained undetected since at least 2011

Security Affairs

The APT group, recently discovered by ESET, targeted government and private companies in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine, including militaries and Ministries of Foreign Affairs. “It is very uncommon to find a cyber espionage operation without any public reporting after almost 10 years of activity.”

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. But the identity and whereabouts of Icamis have remained a mystery to this author until recently.

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Drone attacks hit two Saudi Arabia Aramco oil plants

Security Affairs

Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Abqaiq plant, according to a spokesman for the group in Yemen, it had deployed 10 drones in the attacks. Groups like the Houthis and Hezbollah have access to drone technology and could use it is sophisticated operations. ” reported the BBC.

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Cyberwarfare: A deep dive into the latest Gamaredon Espionage Campaign

Security Affairs

Security experts from Yoroy-Cybaze ZLab have conducted a detailed analysis of an implant used by the Gamaredon APT group in a recent campaign. Gamaredon has been active since 2014, and during this time, the modus operandi has remained almost the same. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD.