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UK Defence Secretary jet hit by an electronic warfare attack in Poland

Security Affairs

Russian hackers have knocked down the GPS and communications of Defence Secretary Grant Shapps RAF Dassault Falcon 900 jet with electronic warfare attack. A Sun’s defence editor onboard the RAF Dassault Falcon 900 jet reported that the GPS and communications were disabled by a jamming attack allegedly launched by Russia.

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Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise

Security Affairs

The international live-fire cyber defence exercise Locked Shields 2019 (LS19) took place on April 8-12 in Tallinn, Estonia, and the figures behind this important competition are important. “This year the exercise evolved around 4000 virtualised systems that had to take more than 2500 attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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North Korea-linked Konni APT uses Russian-language weaponized documents

Security Affairs

Upon enabling the macro, the embedded VBA displays a Russian article titled “Western Assessments of the Progress of the Special Military Operation.” “The payload incorporates a UAC bypass and encrypted communication with a C2 server, enabling the threat actor to execute privileged commands.”

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Attacking Soldiers on Social Media

Schneier on Security

A research group at NATO's Strategic Communications Center of Excellence catfished soldiers involved in an European military exercise -- we don't know what country they were from -- to demonstrate the power of the attack technique. Like a serviceman having a wife and also being on dating apps.".

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China-linked Alloy Taurus APT uses a Linux variant of PingPull malware

Security Affairs

PingPull, was first spotted by Unit 42 in June 2022, the researchers defined the RAT as a “difficult-to-detect” backdoor that leverages the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for C2 communications. Experts also found PingPull variants that use HTTPS and TCP for C2 communications instead of ICMP. org over port 8443 for C2.

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Russia-linked Gamaredon APT targeted a western government entity in Ukraine

Security Affairs

Drawing a delineation between the two then becomes an exercise in tracking the most recent infrastructure.” The SSU has managed to identify the perpetrators’ names, intercept their communication and obtain irrefutable evidence of their involvement in the attacks. 5 members of the group have been notified of suspicion of treason.”

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MY TAKE: COVID-19 cements the leadership role CISOs must take to secure company networks

The Last Watchdog

CISOs’ fundamental challenge Continual clear communication is needed to cut through the noise and confusion of digital transformation. Then you need to constantly train your team members using various techniques, such as breach response assessments or cyber range exercises.

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