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InvisiMole group targets military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe

Security Affairs

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. This allows the InvisiMole group to devise creative ways to operate under the radar.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Donot Team cyberespionage group updates its Windows malware framework

Security Affairs

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. In the latest attacks, the group sent messages using RTF documents that trick users into enabling macros.

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Onyx Ransomware Destroys Large Files Instead of Locking Them

eSecurity Planet

Cybersecurity researchers last week revealed that a new ransomware gang called Onyx is simply destroying larger files rather than encrypting them. The Onyx ransomware group doesn’t bother with encryption. Unlike with other ransomware strains, you can’t recover documents with a decryption key. 2 – for big files.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s a surreal experience, paging through hundreds of top-secret NSA documents. Both Greenwald and his employer, the Guardian , are careful about whom they show the documents to.

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Inside Ireland’s Public Healthcare Ransomware Scare

Krebs on Security

18, 2021, when an employee on a Windows computer opened a booby-trapped Microsoft Excel document in a phishing email that had been sent two days earlier. The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand.

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Qbot uses a new email collector module in the latest campaign

Security Affairs

Most of the infections were observed in organizations in the US and Europe, the most targeted industries were in the government, military, and manufacturing sectors. . ” The spam messages contain URLs to.ZIP files that serve VBS content designed to download the payload from one of six hardcoded encrypted URLs. . .

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Virtual private networks (VPNs): Secure remote user or branch office access to network resources through encrypted connections to firewalls or server applications. Apply encryption protocols and other security measures to connections between computers. Communication protocols (TCP, HTTPS, etc.):

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