Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2023

In February 2023, EclecticIQ researchers spotted multiple KamiKakaBot malware samples that were employed by the Dark Pink APT group (aka Saaiwc) in attacks against government entities in Southeast Asia countries. dll), and a decoy Microsoft Word document. dll), and a decoy Microsoft Word document. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

In January 2022, researchers at Kaspersky ICS CERT uncovered a series of targeted attacks on military industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and East Europe. The emails used weaponized Microsoft Word documents exploiting the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability. The vulnerability affects the MS Office component EQNEDT32.EXE

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns of phishing attacks aimed at organizations in the country using the topic “Azovstal” The phishing message use the subject “Azovstal” and a weaponized office document. Upon opening the attachment and enabling the macro, it will start the infection process.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2020

Xerox Corporation is the last victim of the Maze ransomware operators, hackers have encrypted its files and threaten of releasing them. Maze ransomware operators have breached the systems of the Xerox Corporation and stolen files before encrypting them. The company declared over $1.8

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2022

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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 uses fake NATO training documents as bait in attacks aimed at government bodies. The Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 is behind a string of attacks that targeting government bodies with Zebrocy Delphi malware. “The task runs regularly and tries to POST stolen data (e.g.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

A few days ago the group released a press release in which they warned the companies to not try to recover their files from their backup, it also announced the forthcoming LG Electronics data leak. Maze ransomware operators have also breached the systems of the Xerox Corporation and stolen files before encrypting them.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

BleepingComputer has obtained additional unpublished internal documents sent by the Canon IT department on August 10th to the employees about the restoration of services. Maze ransomware operators have also breached the systems of the Xerox Corporation and stolen files before encrypting them.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new version of the ComRAT backdoor, also known as Agent.BTZ , which is a malware that was employed in past campaigns attributed to the Turla APT group. Earlier versions of Agent.BTZ were used to compromise US military networks in the Middle East in 2008.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

MaxLinear restored some of the systems using its backups, despite Maze Ransomware threatened to leak over 1TB of data allegedly stolen before encrypting the infected systems. According to documents filed with the U.S. The company reset passwords of the affected customers and reported the intrusion to law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. Cyber attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage APT group (also known as Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON) that has been active since at least 2007 targeting government organizations and private businesses. From the PDF documents, the backdoor is able to recover what attackers call a container in the logs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

The ColdRiver APT (aka “ Seaborgium “, “Callisto”, “Star Blizzard”, “TA446”) is a Russian cyberespionage group that has been targeting government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since at least 2015. When the victims opens the PDF, an encrypted text is displayed.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

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. ” Conti initially demanded USD $20 million worth of virtual currency in exchange for a digital key to unlock HSE servers compromised by the group.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Dual-use items are sensitive goods, services, software, and technology that can be used for both civil and military purposes. military end uses in an embargoed country (so called ‘military end use’). uses as parts or components of military items exported without authorization or in breach of an authorization.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

And the ticket sales and distribution company Ticketmaster notified the users of its UK site that their personal information could have been compromised after a malware infection on a support product hosted by Inbenta Technologies was found to be exfiltrating data – including payment information – to the Magecart group.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

In the book The Art of Invisibility , I challenged my co author Kevin Mitnick to document the steps needed to become invisible online. Operational Security is typically a military process. It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

These controls include: Active Directory (AD): Manages users, groups, and passwords as a fundamental access control for an organization and the basis for most other security tools. Virtual private networks (VPNs): Secure remote user or branch office access to network resources through encrypted connections to firewalls or server applications.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Encrypting critical data assets. On February 21, 2018, the SEC issued an additional cybersecurity disclosure guidance document to assist public companies in drafting their cybersecurity disclosures in their SEC filings. Encrypting Critical Data Assets. Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

I worked at NSA both as a contractor and in the military for about 15 years, building those implants, building these exploits to do some of these attacks that we are currently talking about. So clearly something happened here and it had something to do with that word document and Microsoft word. Vamosi: So it's interesting.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

In mid-March , a suspicious Office document referencing the Ukraine elections appeared in the wild, is it related to APT28 and upcoming elections? In mid-March, a suspicious Office document referencing the Ukraine elections appeared in the wild. This document actually is the first step of a more complex cyber attack.

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KnowBe4

MAY 23, 2023

experienced solely the encryption of data and no other form of extortion It's this last data point that interests me. This sophisticated toolkit grabs a blurred image of an Excel spreadsheet with a superimposed box hosting a Microsoft 365 logo and a spinning wheel (as if to convey the document is trying to load).

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In 2016, WikiLeaks published a series of classified documents listing "target selectors": phone numbers the NSA searches for and records. Encryption ranges from very weak to possibly strong , depending on which flavor the system uses. Alternatively, an attacker could intercept the radio signals between a cell phone and a tower.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The operation led to the arrest of two members of the ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine and the seizure of hundreds of crypto wallets used by the group. The authorities also seized the dark web Tor leak site used by the group. lockbit3g3ohd3katajf6zaehxz4h4cnhmz5t735zpltywhwpc6oy3id[.]onion

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