Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A review of this user’s hacker identities shows that during his time on the forums he served as an officer in the special forces of the GRU , the foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Federation. In almost any database leak, the first accounts listed are usually the administrators and early core members. ” Mr.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In August 2020, security experts from FireEye uncovered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO by spreading fake news content on compromised news websites. According to FireEye, the campaign tracked as GhostWriter, has been ongoing since at least March 2017 and is aligned with Russian security interests.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2019

The governments of Germany and The Netherlands agreed to build the first-ever joint military Internet, so-called TEN (Tactical Edge Networking). Government officials from Germany and the Netherlands signed an agreement for the building of the first-ever joint military Internet, so-called TEN (Tactical Edge Networking).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The NATO military command center should be fully operational in 2023, every member states will contribute with its cyber capabilities to the military hub. NATO alliance is aware of growing threats in the cyberspace and the new NATO military command center aims to respond them. 31 at its military hub in Belgium.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The United States Department of Justice charged 4 Chinese military hackers with hacking into credit reporting agency Equifax. The United States Department of Justice officially charged 4 members of the China’s PLA’s 54th Research Institute, a division of the Chinese military, with hacking into credit reporting agency Equifax.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

The activity of the Lyceum APT group was first documented earlier in August 2019 by researchers at ICS security firm Dragos which tracked it as Hexane. “The malware employs the DNS protocol for command and control (C2) communication which increases stealth and keeps the malware communication probes under the radar to evade detection.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2024

Ukraine’s security service (SBU) detained an alleged member of the pro-Russia hacker group “the Cyber Army of Russia.” ” Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, announced that it has identified and detained an alleged member of the pro-Russia hacker group known as the Cyber Army of Russia.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) US agency in charge of secure IT and communication for the White House has disclosed a data breach. The agency sent a data breach notification to its employees last week informing them of a security breach that took place last year between May and July. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Proposed Rule would bring “connected software applications” into the scope of Commerce’s authority to review certain transactions involving information and communications technology and services (ICTS) in the U.S. national security. supply chain and approve or prohibit such transactions or require mitigating measures.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The group also relies on customized versions of open-source tools for C2 communications and to stay under the radar.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Security researchers at ESET recently uncovered a campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe. The downloader communicates with C2 servers using DNS tunneling. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Sweden is banning Chinese tech giant Huawei and ZTE from building new 5G wireless networks due to national security concerns. The decision is the result of assessments made by the Swedish military and security service. ” reads a press release published by the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions. .” HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The Gamaredon APT group continues to carry out attacks against entities in Ukraine, including security services, military, and government organizations. The LitterDrifter worm is written in VBS, it supports two main features: automatic USB propagating and communication with a broad, flexible set of C2.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 28, 2019

They affect national security. Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption: "After all, we are not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes. The thing is, that distinction between military and consumer products largely doesn't exist.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2024

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The group also relies on customized versions of open-source tools for C2 communications and to stay under the radar.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2022

Meanwhile, 200,000 well-trained and technically skilled military service members are discharged each year. Yet, there’s still work to be done to make this path more accessible and known among the veteran and transitioning military community. This experience can also be helpful when training cybersecurity talent. And it works.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

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. For further communication with the customer, they used their own email address mimicking the victim’s.” ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2024

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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2022

The Donot Team has been active since 2016, it focuses on government and military organizations, ministries of foreign affairs, and embassies in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries. To understand which modules are used in the current infection, the malware communicates with another C2 server.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Armed Forces General Staff (Portuguese: Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas), or EMGFA, is the supreme military body of Portugal. The National Security Office (GNS) and Portugal’s national cybersecurity center launched an investigation into the incident to determine the extent of the data breach. ” continues the website.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2022

The hacktivists also attempted to interfere with Russian military communications on the battlefield, recently they captured and shared Russian Military unencrypted High Frequency and morse code communications. The post Anonymous continues to support Ukraine against the Russia appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

However, Macron said that France will favor European providers of 5G technology due to security concerns. It’s normal that … we want a European solution” because of the importance of “the security of our communication,” Macron told reporters. ” reported the Associated Press agency.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The experts discovered a Mach-O universal binary communicating with a domain that they had previously classified as malicious. The binary is ad-hoc signed that was observed communicating with the domain swissborg[.]blog, The APT group’s campaigns focus on cryptocurrency exchanges, venture capital firms, and banks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 13, 2020

Chief Information Security Officers were already on the hot seat well before the COVID-19 global pandemic hit, and they are even more so today. They must rally the troops to proactively engage, day-to-day, in the intricate and absolutely vital mission of preserving the security of IT assets, without stifling innovation.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2020

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE are considered as national security threats. regulators declared Huawei and ZTE to be national security threats. Last week China accused the US government of “oppressing Chinese companies” after U.S. In November 2019, the U.S.

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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. For example, it is authorised to interfere with mobile phones to stop terrorists communicating with their contacts, and can implement defences to protect military aircraft from weapons systems.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

Today, the enemy launched a powerful cyberattack against Ukrtelecom’s IT infrastructure,” reads a statement issued by the State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection (SSSCIP) of Ukraine. Ukrtelecom, a major mobile service and internet provider in Ukraine, foiled a “massive” cyberattack that hit its infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

The Blackjack group is believed to be affiliated with Ukrainian intelligence services that carried out other attacks against Russian targets, including an internet provider and a military infrastructure. Subsequently, the threat actors erase the router’s routing table, rendering its communication with other devices non-functional.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

The Platinum cyber espionage group uses steganographic technique to hide communications with the Command and Control Servers (C&C). Experts from Kaspersky have linked the Platinum APT group with cyber attacks involving an elaborate, and new steganographic technique used to hide communications with C2 servers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2023

NPO Mashinostroyeniya (JSC MIC Mashinostroyenia, NPO Mash) is a leading Russian manufacturer of missiles and military spacecraft. The cyberspies targeted NPO Mashinostroyeniya in an attempt to steal highly confidential intellectual property on sensitive missile technology currently in use and under development for the Russian military.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As a part of this effort, each organization made the following commitments: MxD , in collaboration with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, created the Cybersecurity for Manufacturing Operational Technology (CyMOT) program to increase the security of U.S. Funding for this program is in part from a Federal grant.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 21, 2022

This is a dangerous vulnerability: An assessment from security firm BitSight found six vulnerabilities in the Micodus MV720 , a GPS tracker that sells for about $20 and is widely available. The security firm said it first contacted Micodus in September to notify company officials of the vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), US Cyber Command, and international partners released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn that Russia-linked threat actors are using compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters (EdgeRouters) to evade detection in cyber operations worldwide.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm was inside Ukrainian telecoms giant Kyivstar from at least May 2023, the head of Ukraine’s Security Service of Ukraine’s (SBU) told Reuters. All mobile communications and internet access were temporarily interrupted. The attack has “completely destroyed the core of a telecoms operator.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

NISC disclosed a potential security breach involving personal data associated with email communications. “Tokyo is embarking on deeper military co-operation with the US and regional allies, including work on a joint fighter project with the UK and Italy, in which top secret technological data will be exchanged.”

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