Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

government employees and contractors have been issued a secure smart ID card that enables physical access to buildings and controlled spaces, and provides access to government computer networks and systems at the cardholder’s appropriate security level. A sample Common Access Card (CAC). Millions of U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Related: Apple tool used as warfare weapon Ukraine’s defense against Russian invaders has changed the role of video. Accessing video-based intelligence at the right time and place is a very effective method for gaining information about the constantly changing military landscape.

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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.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Related: How ‘Internet Access Brokers’ fuel ransomware I happened to be in the audience at Stanford University when President Obama took to the stage to issue an executive order challenging the corporate sector and federal government to start collaborating as true allies.

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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 Government experts pointed out that in some cases the group did not deployed any backdoor in the compromised systems. ” reads trhe announcement published by DKWOC.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

A popular mobile app in the Middle East called ToTok has been removed from both Apple and Google’s online stores because it was a spy tool. According to a report published by the New York Times, the popular app ToTok was used by the UAE government as a surveillance tool. ” reported the AFP agency.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Also in attendance were Access Living, The College of Lake County, CyberSkills2Work, and Task Force Movement. Access Living is committed to launching an Independent Living Technology Program to address the gap in digital skills in the disability community to reach 150 disabled participants by the end of 2024. Chicago, Ill.,

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The Russia-linked Gamaredon APT group attempted to compromise an unnamed Western government entity in Ukraine. In Mid January the Ukrainian government was hit with destructive malware, tracked as WhisperGate , and several Ukrainian government websites were defaced by exploiting a separate vulnerability in OctoberCMS.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Chinese cyber espionage aims at obtaining commercial secrets and intellectual property to advantage the government of Beijing. Over the past year, British intelligence has observed over 20 cases involving Chinese firms contemplating or actively attempting to access sensitive technology developed by UK entities. ” reported BBC.

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IT Governance

MARCH 8, 2022

The Ukrainian government and its military were targeted by DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, while a pro-Ukrainian group attacked the Belarusian railway system with ransomware after discovering that it was being used by Russia to transport tanks and weapons. Beware of remote access takeover scams. Get started.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

authoring agencies have recently observed indications of Volt Typhoon actors maintaining access and footholds within some victim IT environments for at least five years,” reads the alert. The group also relies on customized versions of open-source tools for C2 communications and to stay under the radar. “the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2019

Russian APT groups are targeting European governments for cyber-espionage purposes ahead of the upcoming European elections. The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2023

A Russian hacking group, tracked Winter Vivern (aka TA473), has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities ( CVE-2022-27926 ) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats. The CVE-2022-27926 flaw affects Zimbra Collaboration versions 9.0.0,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2024

authoring agencies have recently observed indications of Volt Typhoon actors maintaining access and footholds within some victim IT environments for at least five years,” reads the alert. The group also relies on customized versions of open-source tools for C2 communications and to stay under the radar. In fact, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Proofpoint researchers recently reported that a Russian hacking group, tracked as Winter Vivern (aka TA473), has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities ( CVE-2022-27926 ) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats.

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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. We discussed why encrypted flash drives have become established as a must-have portable business tool in the digital age.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

Cybersecurity US holds conference on military AI use with dozens of allies to determine ‘responsible’ use DFSA’s Cyber Risk Management Guidelines: A Blueprint for Cyber Resilience? Is it a Russia’s weapon? Players hacked during the matches of Apex Legends Global Series.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Government Accountability Office audit last week found that the defense department is playing catch up when it comes to securing weapons systems from cyberattacks. military and civilian personnel were compromised. The result: personal information and credit card data of at least 30,000 U.S. million personnel records from the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

.” 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. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

All of that, despite the fact that they used the FSB’s own malicious software and tools to remain anonymous and hidden online. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. In December 2019, the APT group targeted several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

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. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” concludes Microsoft.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Notably, the Order requires private companies to share with the federal government the results of “red-team” safety tests for foundation models that pose certain risks, directs the development of new AI standards to guide government agencies’ acquisition and use of AI, creates a new National AI Research Resource to foster U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2022

The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. Pterodo is a multistage Visual Basic Script (VBS) backdoor designed to collect sensitive information or maintain access to compromised machines. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) confirmed the ongoing cyber espionage campaign.

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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. government institutions, and about 250 Ukrainian victims. ” reads the joint advisory. ” continues the advisory.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. ” states Microsoft. ” states Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

March 10 – Crooks target Ukraine’s IT Army with a tainted DDoS tool. Threat actors are spreading password-stealing malware disguised as a security tool to target Ukraine’s IT Army. March 9 – Multiple Russian government websites hacked in a supply chain attack.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

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. The tools in the arsenal of the XDSpy APT are quite basic, although efficient, their primary tool is a downloader dubbed named XDDown.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. Gallmaker is a politically motivated APT group that focused its surgical operations on the government, military or defense sectors. ” concluded Symantec.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2022

. “Dropping an IIS module as a backdoor enables threat actors to maintain persistent, update-resistant and relatively stealthy access to the IT infrastructure of a targeted organization; be it to collect emails, update further malicious access, or clandestinely manage compromised servers that can be leveraged as malicious infrastructure.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

Mint Sandstorm also used custom tools in selected targets, notably organizations in the energy and transportation sectors. Once gained initial access to an organization, the threat actors deploy a custom PowerShell script to gather intelligence on the target. ” reads the report published by Microsoft. ” concludes Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

The RCMP said the raid was part of an international coordinated effort with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Australian Federal Police, as part of “a series of ongoing, parallel investigations into Remote Access Trojan (RAT) technology. I tend to have a violent nature, and have both Martial arts and Military training.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability to access restricted resources by bypassing control checks. Sliver 11 is an open-source adversary simulation tool that is gaining popularity among threat actors, since it provides a practical command and control framework.” The flaw CVE-2023-46805 (CVSS score 8.2)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The group has continued launching attacks against entities in Southeast Asia, including military, satellite communications, media and educational organizations. The Thrip group used both custom malware and legitimate tools to hit its targets that continue to include defense contractors, telecoms companies, and satellite operators.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

China-linked threat actor tracked as Alloy Taurus is using a Linux variant of the PingPull backdoor and a new tool dubbed Sword2033. In recent years, the researchers observed the group expanding its operations to include financial institutions and government entities. Experts added that the IP 196.216.136[.]139 softether[.]net

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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 availability online of PoC exploit tool online pose a serious risk to organizations. The tool chains two of the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities recently addressed by Microsoft.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2021

Let's start with a poll: At your place of work, does your employer have the right to access the contents of your corporate email account if necessary? But there's also a lot of consistency, for example, here's a piece on whether it's legal to access an employee's email account in Australia : The short answer is yes.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

“Once NOBELIUM obtains credentials and successfully compromises a server, the actor relies on that access to maintain persistence and deepen its infiltration using sophisticated malware and tools. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. “Use of FoggyWeb has been observed in the wild as early as April 2021.”

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