Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant reported a surge in the number of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023. Out of the eight in-the-wild zero-day issues targeting Chrome in 2023, none of the vulnerabilities impacted the Document Object Model (DOM) and there were use-after-free issues.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

8, 2023 – SandboxAQ today announced Sandwich, an open source framework and meta-library of cryptographic algorithms that simplifies modern cryptography management. To access Sandwich and review the documentation, visit the SandboxAQ GitHub repository. Palo Alto, Calif., For additional information visit our website at [link].

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Apprenticeships: supporting new talent in to libraries. Last summer Kirklees Libraries recruited two new apprentices as part of a council-wide programme to develop and deliver apprentice opportunities. Among the vanguard of library apprenticeships schemes is Kirklees Libraries in West Yorkshire. Career opportunities.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This is a critical vulnerability of very high significance to government and industry groups. Knowledgeable counsel should be involved through all steps of the company’s assessments, containment, remediation, and documentation. Ensure network logging exists to record activity related to a vulnerable Apache Log4j logging library.

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CILIP

MARCH 8, 2021

Feminist leadership, libraries and Covid-19. s Library which was established in 1991 and now has more than 20 paid staff ? s was Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library. I have been a lifelong library lover, but have no formal training as an information professional. s Library were sown.? Adele said:

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Researchers uncovered a recent campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations. The group has been active since at least 2013, ESET experts linked the group to the Gamaredon Russian APT group Gamaredon despite considers the two crews independent.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. A new cyber espionage group tracked as Gallmaker appeared in the threat landscape. ” continues Symantec. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

China-linked APT31 group employed a new strain of malware in attacks aimed at entities in Mongolia, Belarus, Canada, the US, and Russia. In July 2021, the French national cyber-security agency ANSSI warned of ongoing attacks against a large number of French organizations conducted by the Chine-linked APT31 cyberespionage group.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2019

Experts analyzed an Office document containing a payload that is able to bypass Microsoft AppLocker and Anti-Malware Scan Interface (AMSI), Introduction. Initial document view. Analyzing the document view with more attention it possible to notice a suspicious chunk of strings in the smallest box in the left of the document: Figure 3.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The APT group employed the AppleJeus malware since at least 2018 to steal cryptocurrencies from the victims. The new campaign observed by Volexity started in June 2022, the APT group registered the domain name bloxholder[.]com dll” – a side-loaded library internally named HijackingLib.dll (md5: e66bc1e91f1a214d098cf44ddb1ae91a).

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Synergis Software

MARCH 21, 2019

Engineering document management (EDM) systems are a big investment. Without documentation on each solution, it can lead to some confusion on which software does what across vendors. Our ACs recommend surveying key groups of users to determine where they store their most critical files.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

The campaign was previously attributed to China-linked APT Emissary Panda (aka APT27 , TG-3390 , Bronze Union , and Lucky Mouse ), it is referenced as SIG37 in one of the documents included in the Shadow Brokers dump. The malware uses Subcomponent DLLs to implement hot mic and screengrab features, along with keylogging features.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Mandiant researchers reported that the UNC2565 group behind the GOOTLOADER malware (aka Gootkit ) continues to improve their code by adding new components and implementing new obfuscation techniques. Gootkit runs on an access-a-as-a-service model, it is used by different groups to drop additional malicious payloads on the compromised systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Microsoft revealed that the Chinese group Storm-0558 stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump. In July, Microsoft announced it had mitigated an attack conducted by a China-linked threat actor, tracked as Storm-0558, which targeted customer emails.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Working Internationally for Libraries: How to write effective grant proposals. I had heard about the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) during my MSc, but I didn?t From her description, it sounded like an exceptional opportunity for learning what libraries all over the world are doing and for networking.

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Archive-It

APRIL 26, 2021

The Internet Archive’s Community Webs Program provides training and education, infrastructure and services, and professional community cultivation for public librarians across the country to document their local history and the lives of their patrons.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2020

Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab analyzed a new implant employed by a North Korea-linked APT group, tracked as Kimsuky, in attacks on South Korea. The Kimsuky APT group has been analyzed by several security teams. We decided to analysed the activity of the group after noticing a tweet of the user “ @spider_girl22 ” in February 28th 2020.

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Enterprise Software Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

But even though it comes fully featured and customizable with things like Column Interactions, Pagination, Grouping, Accessibility support, Custom Filtering, Hierarchical Data Support, Tree View, and more, certain limitations and downsides make developers look for AG Grid alternatives for Angular and React projects.

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Unwritten Record

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Original Caption: “Group of CCC boys from Idaho just arrived in camp near Andersonville, Tennessee. In terms of federal records, CCC photographs at the National Archives can be found interfiled among textual records, at the FDR Presidential Library, and within the collection of the Still Picture Branch. ” Date: 7/15/1933.

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Archive-It

JUNE 22, 2021

Internet Archive’s Community Webs program is delighted to announce a partnership with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to ingest metadata from the over 700 publicly available Community Webs web archive collections into DPLA. Read the full story on the Internet Archive blog.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang hacked the hotel chain Motel One FBI warns of dual ransomware attacks Progress Software fixed two critical severity flaws in WS_FTP Server Child abuse site taken down, organized child exploitation crime suspected – exclusive A still unpatched zero-day RCE impacts more than 3.5M

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

China-linked APT41 group is targeting telecommunications companies with a new piece of malware used to spy on text messages of highly targeted individuals. Researchers at FireEye discovered a new backdoor tracked as MessageTap that China-linked APT41 group are using to spy on text messages sent or received by highly targeted individuals.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Threat actors infected the iPhone of New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware between June 2018 to June 2021. The iPhone of New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard was repeatedly infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NSO Group). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT29 group abused the legitimate information exchange systems used by European countries to target government entities. Russia-linked APT29 (aka SVR group , Cozy Bear , Nobelium , and The Dukes ) was spotted abusing the legitimate information exchange systems used by European countries in attacks aimed at governments.

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Archive-It

MARCH 21, 2024

Empowering GLAM Institutions: The Launch of Digital Library Accessibility Policy and Practice Guidelines – The DLF Digital Accessibility Working Group publishes best practices for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, fostering accessibility through policies and workflows.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This file, which also masquerades as a legitimate word document, is designed to lure unsuspecting victims into executing the loader. Upon opening the Microsoft Word document, the first-stage Enigma loader is launched, which, in turn, downloads and executes an obfuscated secondary-stage payload through Telegram. The second server (193[.]56[.]146[.]29)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Researchers from ESET uncovered the activity of a new APT group, tracked as XDSpy, that has been active since at least 2011. The APT group, recently discovered by ESET, targeted government and private companies in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine, including militaries and Ministries of Foreign Affairs.

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Info Source

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

TWAIN Direct is designed to provide application vendors with a simplified and universal approach to directly integrate and support any model document scanner via client or web-based application, regardless of its operating system.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Experts discovered a new Windows info-stealer, named PyMICROPSIA, linked to AridViper group that is rapidly evolving to target other platforms. Experts spotted the PyMICROPSIA info stealer while investigating attacks of the AridViper group (also tracked as Desert Falcon and APT-C-23 ). ” concludes the analysis.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Going from scanning nothing (but email attachments) to scanning everyone’s private photo library was an enormous delta. Apple denied that its technology could pose a threat to user privacy for weeks, it offered a series of explanations and shared multiple documents to demonstrate that there is a low rate of false positives.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

Iran-linked APT group tracked TA453 has been linked to a new malware campaign targeting both Windows and macOS systems. TA453 in May 2023 started using LNK infection chains instead of Microsoft Word documents with macros. TA453 in May 2023 started using LNK infection chains instead of Microsoft Word documents with macros.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2021

Recent spam campaigns used messages with malicious Word documents, or links to them, pretending to be an invoice, shipping information, COVID-19 information , resumes, financial documents, or scanned documents. Emotet is a modular malware, its operators could develop new Dynamic Link Libraries to update its capabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

April 9, 2024 Critical Windows Command Injection Vulnerability in Rust Standard Library Type of vulnerability: Command injection. The problem: CVE-2024-24576 impacts the Rust standard library on Windows, allowing unauthenticated attackers to run arbitrary commands using OS command and argument injection flaws. are vulnerable.

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Unwritten Record

APRIL 6, 2021

If you have a specific photograph you found in the course of your research and it is attributed to the National Archives, this “Visual Cues and Clues” guide to picking a Record Group may help you determine where exactly that photo is. In order to find any photos within our holdings, it helps to have an idea of which Record Groups to search.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Mellon Foundation for “Community Webs: A National Network of Public Library Web Archives Documenting Local History & Underrepresented Groups,” an nationwide expansion of the program to include a minimum of 2 public libraries in each of the 50 United States, plus additional local history organizations in U.S

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The Schedule

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Jessika Drmacich, Chair, former 2021 Chair: Jessika, Records Manager and Digital Resources Archivist at Williams College Special Collections (Libraries), leads Williams’ campus-wide Records Management Program, web archiving, and digital preservation. We will be soliciting for lightning talks from our community!

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CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2021

Former CILIP Trustee and Past President David Stewart (Head of Library and Knowledge Services: North East and Yorkshire/North West, Health Education England) was recognised with an MBE for services to the NHS and voluntary services to Information Management.

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