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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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Google TAG warns that Russian COLDRIVER APT is using a custom backdoor

Security Affairs

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. In November 2022, TAG spotted COLDRIVER sending targets benign PDF documents from impersonation accounts.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 458 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 357 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Is it fake news? Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 428 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here.

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APT28 and Upcoming Elections: evidence of possible interference

Security Affairs

A copy of the Daily Express’ article published back in February. This document actually is the first step of a more complex cyber attack. Figure 4: Payload stored in “Company” tag of document metadata. Introduction. In mid-March, a suspicious Office document referencing the Ukraine elections appeared in the wild.