Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2023

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against four entities and one individual for their role in malicious cyber operations conducted to support the government of North Korea. The sanctioned entities conducted operations to steal funds to support the military strategy of the regime.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2023

The Gamaredon APT group (aka Shuckworm, Actinium, Armageddon, Primitive Bear, UAC-0010, and Trident Ursa) continues to carry out attacks against entities in Ukraine, including security services, military, and government organizations. ” reads the report published by Symantec.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. manufacturers on behalf of Russian end-users, including defense contractors and other Russian government agencies.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

CERT-UA warns of a spear-phishing campaign conducted by APT28 group targeting Ukrainian government bodies with fake ‘Windows Update’ guides. Russia-linked APT28 group is targeting Ukrainian government bodies with fake ‘Windows Update’ guides, Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2022

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. The messages use the HTML-file “War criminals of the Russian Federation.htm” as attachment. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Unwritten Record

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The country needed to quickly increase the number of soldiers in the military while also increasing the production of wartime goods and manufacturing. To do this, the United States Government employed several strategies to garner the support of the American people. The First Motion Picture Unit, part of 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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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2022

The experts pointed out that starting just before the invasion threat actors linked to the military intelligence service GRU launched destructive wiper attacks on hundreds of systems in Ukraine. 32% percent of destructive attacks were aimed at Ukrainian government organizations at the national, regional, and city levels.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

Pro-Ukraine hackers, likely linked to Ukraine IT Army , are using Docker images to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a dozen websites belonging to government, military, and media. The DDoS attacks also targeted three Lithuanian media websites. ” reported Crowdstrike. To nominate, please visit:?

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Unwritten Record

MARCH 22, 2018

This year, we are focusing on the role women played in the United States Military during World War II in a two-part blog post. They were recruited for service in the United States military for the first time. They served in each branch of the military in separate units. Government can be seen in the clips below.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2022

Threat actors could perform reverse engineering of military-made malicious code and use their own versions in attacks in the wild. “The same applies for the digital weapons that, maybe today are used by the military, developed by military, and tomorrow will be available for criminals,” he explained. .

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. As the United States and other nations condemn Russia’s actions, the odds of Russian cyber actors targeting the U.S.,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

The popular hacking Anonymous and the IT ARMY of Ukraine continue to target Russian government entities and private businesses. government announced the disruption of the Cyclops Blink botnet operated by the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. April 8 – Microsoft disrupted APT28 attacks on Ukraine through a court order.

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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. Get started.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In Q1 2023, threat actors linked to Russia’s military intelligence service focused their phishing campaigns on Ukraine, with the country accounting for over 60% of observed Russian targeting. The group targeted multiple sectors, including government, defense, energy, transportation/logistics, education, and humanitarian organizations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

China-linked Curious Gorge APT is targeting Russian government agencies, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that an APT group linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLA SSF), tracked as Curious Gorge , is targeting Russian government agencies.

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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. To nominate, please visit:?

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Unwritten Record

JANUARY 24, 2023

We here at the Unwritten Record wanted to share past blogs about the Holocaust in an effort to help promote education on the topic. The following blog post discusses one such project and shows how film footage is used to further our understanding of the Holocaust. The following blogs highlight two such stories.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

In recent years, the researchers observed the group expanding its operations to include financial institutions and government entities. This domain has been hosted on eight other IPs throughout its history, none of these IPs were directly affiliated with the South African government. Experts added that the IP 196.216.136[.]139

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 19, 2022

Under Guideline B of the security clearance adjudicative guidelines , the United States government is concerned with any potential for foreign influence. This poses a risk because providing aid to a foreign government or individual could be perceived as exhibiting a foreign preference for another country. national interests.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 5, 2022

At any point the external environment can throw a curve ball – new government regulations, changes in political and social dynamics, or trends in sustainability to name a few. Riani has experience as political advisor to Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and as the director on the Global Risk Analysis at Control Risks.

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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

APRIL 23, 2022

The analysis of encryption techniques employed in the attack allowed the government experts to associate the campaign with the cybercrime group Trickbot. The alert published by the Ukraine CERT-UA includes Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this campaign and recommendations. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2022

At the same time, the Russian government has blocked Facebook and partly blocked Twitter , while other platforms like TikTok have suspended services in the country. “Without the Internet, the rest of the world would not know of atrocities happening in other places,” Sullivan wrote.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

.” Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed a Russian threat actor exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 flaw in targeted attacks against several organizations in the European government, transportation, energy, and military sectors, for approximately a year. ” concludes the expert.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

When governments are targeted by cyber attacks, the blame almost immediately falls on nation states. Russia and China have both recently been linked to cyber espionage and sabotage aimed at government agencies – with Russia accused last month of a widespread attack on the Ukrainian government website.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

Mint Sandstorm targets both private and public organizations, including political dissidents, journalists, activists, the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), and employees from multiple government agencies, including individuals protesting oppressive regimes in the Middle East. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2022

government offers up to $10 million for info that allows to identify or locate six Russian GRU hackers who are members of the Sandworm APT group. This isn’t the first time that the US government indicted these members of the Sandworm team, in October 2020 the U.S. critical infrastructure.” critical infrastructure.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2020

The attackers were spreading fabricated content, including falsified news articles, quotes, correspondence, and other documents designed to appear as coming from military officials and political figures in the target countries. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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IT Governance

MARCH 18, 2021

The UK government plans to invest £24 billion in cyber security and the armed forces as part of a major shake-up of its defence policy. Under the new strategy, the government says it’s prepared to launch nuclear attacks if the country faced an exceptional threat that used cyber weapons or other “emerging technologies”.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2022

Last month, the Conti ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack on Costa Rica government infrastructure after that the government refused to pay a ransom. The attack impacted multiple government services from the Finance Ministry to the Labor Ministry. It also has had to grant extensions for tax payments.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

billion rubles. billion rubles. Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere.

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Rocket Software

APRIL 25, 2022

That product helped customers manage, govern and optimize access of their Db2 data through IBM’s Query Management Facility. John Crossno spent his day participating in an escort and military burial services for a WWII Veteran. Rocketeers from Lithuania spent the afternoon cleaning a local park.

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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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CGI

JULY 19, 2018

Is the federal government ready for robotic process automation? Don’t think of the shambling, clanking humanoid automatons from 1950s sci-fi, or even the sleek bomb-disposal robots used today by the military and police departments. Blog moderation guidelines and term of use. harini.kottees…. Thu, 07/19/2018 - 04:38.

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