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Analyzing attacks conducted by North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO APT group

Security Affairs

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. TAG believes that the ARCHIPELAGO group is a subset of a threat actor tracked by Mandiant as APT43. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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GUEST ESSAY: JPMorgan’s $200 million in fines stems from all-too-common compliance failures

The Last Watchdog

While the price tag of these violations was shocking, the compliance failure was not. The ever-changing landscape of rapid communication via instant messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, Signal, WeChat, Telegram, and others, has left regulated industries to find a balance between compliance and efficient client communication.

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Reuters: Russia-linked APT behind Brexit leak website

Security Affairs

According to Reuters, at least victims of the leak confirmed the authenticity of the messages and revealed they were targeted by Russia-linked hackers. sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). ” reported the Reuters. To nominate, please visit:?.

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Microsoft Targets Critical Outlook Zero-Day Flaw

eSecurity Planet

This will prevent the sending of NTLM authentication messages to remote file shares. Two More Critical Flaws Action1 vice president of vulnerability and threat research Mike Walters highlighted two other critical flaws in a blog post. “Microsoft’s public bulletin doesn’t say exactly what type of file (images?

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Electronic Records Day 2021

The Texas Record

We like to raise awareness of the challenges of managing e-records throughout the year, so here is a selection of previously published blog articles on various topics: Social Media and Text Messaging: Are text messages records? How do I capture text message records? Is my office’s social media a record?

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GUEST ESSAY: The drivers behind persistent ransomware — and defense tactics to deploy

The Last Watchdog

An unsuspecting employee will open a legitimate-looking message and click a link or download a file that releases embedded malware onto their machine or the broader company network. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over. A typical attack.

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U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer

Krebs on Security

But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. I hoped that this will be [some kind of] blacklist, with logging about blocked [messages/calls].