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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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Winter Vivern APT exploited zero-day in Roundcube webmail software in recent attacks

Security Affairs

The Winter Vivern group was first analyzed in 2021, it has been active since at least 2020 and it targets governments in Europe and Central Asia. The analysis of the email HTML source code revealed the presence of a SVG tag at the end, which contains a base64-encoded payload. The messages were sent from team.managment@outlook[.]com

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Mar 06- Mar 12 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict

Security Affairs

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. March 12 – Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is going to ban Instagram. Threat actors are spreading password-stealing malware disguised as a security tool to target Ukraine’s IT Army.

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Microsoft Targets Critical Outlook Zero-Day Flaw

eSecurity Planet

“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. Critical Outlook Zero-Day The Outlook zero-day, CVE-2023-23397 , with a critical CVSS score of 9.8,

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. How ransomware works. Screenshot example. Spam Filter.