Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. ” reads the analysis published by the expert. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The attacks against entities in Afghanistan took place prior to the Taliban’s recent takeover of the government in the country and the withdrawal of all military forces of the United States and its allies. ” reads the analysis published by Talos researchers. The threat actors are using the backdoorsince at least 2020.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

QBot Trojan operators are using new tactics in their campaign to hijack legitimate email conversations to steal sensitive data from the victims. QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by malware for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2020

” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. SideWinder, a group that has been active since 2012, is a known threat and has reportedly targeted military entities’ Windows machines. ” continues the analysis. Collected data is encrypted using RSA and AES encryption algorithms, then it is sent to the C&C server.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

Earlier versions of Agent.BTZ were used to compromise US military networks in the Middle East in 2008. The new variant leverages Gmail’s web interface to covertly receive commands and exfiltrate sensitive data. a communication module (a DLL), which is injected into the default browser by the orchestrator.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. ” reads the analysis publisjed by Kaspersky. ” continues the analys i s.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. So, Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab team decided to dive deep into technical analysis. Technical Analysis.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

Related: Why data science is the key to securing networks. I recently visited with Silverfort CEO Hed Kovetz, who described how the idea for the company percolated when the co-founders were toiling in the encryption branch of Unit 8200 , the elite cybersecurity arm of the Israeli military.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

The information provided includes source code and user credentials, privileged administrative access, and other critical data, which can be used to simulate an internal attack. With this solution, pentesters can inspect network traffic to assess exploit vulnerabilities and data leaks in web applications.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

Malware researchers from ESET have conducted a new analysis of a backdoor used by the Russia-linked APT Turla in targeted espionage operations. The new analysis revealed a list of high-profile victims that was previously unknown. ” reads the analysis published by ESET. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published a quick analysis of an interesting attack carried out by SWEED threat actor targeting precision engineering firms in Italy. Today I’d like to share a quick analysis of an interesting attack targeting precision engineering companies based in Italy. Technical Analysis. Introduction.

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IT Governance

JUNE 27, 2019

TrendMicro’s analysis into the ransomware found that it was the same system administration tool abused by the likes of SOREBRECT and Bad Rabbit. The ransomware was accompanied by a note: “Your files are encrypted with the strongest military algorithms. Without our special decoder it is impossible to restore the data.”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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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. When the victims opens the PDF, an encrypted text is displayed. ” reads TAG’s analysis.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Personal and Corporate data is now regularly targeted and traded by unscrupulous actors, protect it with a proactive Cyber Defense solution. The Military Chinese General and Philosopher Sun Tzu (544 BC – 496 BC) wrote these tactics over two thousand years ago, and it is as applicable today as it ever was.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. Network Elements Networks connect physical and virtual assets and control the data flow between them. Storage: Contains user and application data at rest; can be integrated with other elements (server, etc.)

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 36 million records. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. Data breached: 6.9 Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand. For example, it is unclear how much data would have been unrecoverable if a decryption key had not become available as the HSE’s backup infrastructure was only periodically backed up to offline tape.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. And so, a lot of times once the encryption occurs, that's really the final stage. They found what they believed to be sensitive data and then they perform the encryption. Of the of the incident. What's the first step?

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

A high-profile cyber incident may cause substantial financial and reputational losses to an organization, including the disruption of corporate business processes, destruction or theft of critical data assets, loss of goodwill, and shareholder and consumer litigation. Encrypting critical data assets. Managing digital identities.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The SASE solution also provides additional security to users through remote browser isolation that keeps the endpoint segregated from the corporate information.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

You might not think of it as a major aspect of security and yet, stolen credentials are really the key to data breaches today. For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. Fact is, we’ve long had passwords as a credential. Lewis: Good.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Would you use it? Would you help others?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Would you use it? Would you help others?

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 28, 2020

SolarWinds has removed its customer list from its website, but the Internet Archive saved it : all five branches of the US military, the state department, the White House, the NSA, 425 of the Fortune 500 companies, all five of the top five accounting firms, and hundreds of universities and colleges.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 16, 2021

Arquilla is a distinguished professor of defense analysis at the United States Naval Postgraduate School. Bitskrieg gives substance to, and connects the dots between, a couple of assertions that have become axiomatic: •Military might no longer has primacy. Keep info moving around in the Cloud – and keep it strongly encrypted.

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