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Chinese actor ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ remained undetected for five years

Security Affairs

A previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ has been targeting military and government entities since 2018. Bitdefender researchers discovered a previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ that has been targeting military and government entities since 2018.

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Operation In(ter)reception targets Military and Aerospace employees in Europe and the Middle East

Security Affairs

Experts uncovered a new cyber-espionage campaign, dubbed “ Operation In(ter)receptio n,” aimed at aerospace and military organizations in Europe and the Middle East. ” The attackers used password-protected RAR archive files as decoys purported to include a PDF document with details on the salary for specific job positions.

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Researchers shared technical details of NSA Equation Group’s Bvp47 backdoor

Security Affairs

The group targeted multiple industries, including governments, telecom, aerospace, energy, financial institutions, nuclear research, oil and gas, military, transportation, and companies developing encryption technologies. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, backdoor).

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Chinese actors behind attacks on industrial enterprises and public institutions

Security Affairs

In January 2022, researchers at Kaspersky ICS CERT uncovered a series of targeted attacks on military industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and East Europe. The attackers breached dozens of enterprises and in some cases compromised their IT infrastructure, taking over systems used to manage security solutions.

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The Platinum APT group adds the Titanium backdoor to its arsenal

Security Affairs

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. The backdoor deploys an SFX archive containing a Windows task installation script.

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Exclusive: Pakistan and India to armaments: Operation Transparent Tribe is back 4 years later

Security Affairs

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. The method used to send the information to the C2 is the following: Figure 11: C2 communication routine.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

He had been working on the Edward Snowden archive for a couple of months, and had a pile of more technical documents that he wanted help interpreting. Those of us in the information security community had long assumed that the NSA was doing things like this. I am less trusting of communications technology.