Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine informs that as a result of a successful complex special operation in cyberspace, a large volume of confidential documents of the structural subdivision of the Russian Ministry of Transport – the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) – is now acquired.”

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

The new document spells out an ambitious plan for implementing national cybersecurity controls and laws. The initiatives that stand out the most — critical infrastructure security standards, a national data privacy and security law, and liability for security failures — will likely take time and the support of Congress to implement.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Researchers at mobile security firm Lookout have provided details about two recently discovered Android spyware families, dubbed Hornbill and SunBird, used by an APT group named Confucius. The two malware were used to spy on personnel linked to Pakistan’s military, nuclear authorities, and Indian election officials in Kashmir.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Airbus Hit by Series of Cyber Attacks on Suppliers: Security Sources. The European aerospace giant Airbus has been hit by a series of supply chain attacks, threat actors hit its suppliers in the attempt to steal secret technical documents. ” reads the report. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – APT, hacking).

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

“For example, UNC2529 used a unique username, masquerading as an account executive for a small California-based electronics manufacturing company, which Mandiant identified through a simple Internet search.” In some attacks, the threat actors used weaponized Excel documents as a downloader. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

The malware samples analyzed impersonated the applications of telecommunications companies or smartphone manufacturers. According to leaked documents published in WikiLeaks in 2015, RCS Lab was a reseller of the notorious Italian surveillance firm HackingTeam. However, we found various publicly-available clues that suggest otherwise.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2019

The US government is testing high-altitude balloons manufactured by Sierra Nevada to conduct surveillance over American soil. The high-altitude balloons are manufactured by Sierra Nevada Corporation, they will cover a large area in the United States’ Midwest. ” states The Guardian. ” states the authorization. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

According to Dutch-based NRC newspaper and Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger, Dutch intelligence services arrested two alleged Russian spies working for Russia’s GRU military intelligence service on suspicion of planning to hack the Spiez laboratory near Bern. Security Affairs – Skripal case, GRU ). ” states the AFP press.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021. June’s figures bring the annual running total of security incidents to 729 and the total number of breached records to 3,947,030,094.

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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 researchers documented multiple QBots’ module inlucing: Executable Update – Updates the current executable with a newer version or newer bot list.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. The true figure, as always, will be higher than this – in part because organisations rarely disclose how many records were involved in security incidents. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The news is curious and it probably has little real if not the fact that Vladimir Putin is not a super cyber security expert, although he knows its importance very well. Nowadays it is a suicide to use a computer running Windows XP because the OS doesn’t receive security updates and it is quite easy to find working exploits online.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016. Cyber attacks conducted by the APT37 group mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. The hackers targeted organizations in the chemicals, manufacturing, electronics, aerospace, healthcare, and automotive sectors.

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Unwritten Record

JANUARY 23, 2024

The 42 nd and 45 th Divisions and 20 th Armored Division, along with Signal Corps photographers and cameramen, assisted the survivors and documented the atrocities they found. This post documents the creation and dissemination of the edited film, Death Mills (1946). ” On March 8th Capt.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. caused problems of their own.

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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. Strengthened public security and human rights controls. military end uses in an embargoed country (so called ‘military end use’). New controls on technical assistance.

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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. SO I only mention Ross Ulbricht in talks because I use him as an example of an Operation Security, or OpSec failure. Operational Security is typically a military process. There are a lot.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Russian military accessed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s emails in 2015 hack (unknown). ATM manufacturer Diebold Nixdorf hit by ransomware attack (unknown). Security lapse at Indian cell network Jio exposes coronavirus symptom checker results (unknown). Missouri-based BJC HealthCare warns patients after cyber attack (unknown).

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Unwritten Record

MAY 25, 2021

The United States Army Signal Corps have long been the units responsible for photographing military activities, especially during wartime. Notches in film were used to identify the type of film and the date of its manufacturer. Text reads: Federal Security Agency, U.S. Close up of notches on 80-GK-5978. Close up of 44-PA-135.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

From time to time, there emerge cybersecurity stories of such potential impact that they have the effect of making all other security concerns seem minuscule and trifling by comparison. The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. Yesterday was one of those times.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 10, 2018

Earlier this month, the Pentagon stopped selling phones made by the Chinese companies ZTE and Huawei on military bases because they might be used to spy on their users. But it's just one instance of the much larger issue of securing our supply chains. Supply-chain security is an incredibly complex problem. I could go on.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2020

The Internet Security Alliance ( ISA ) is a trade association and think tank whose members include prominent corporations in a wide cross section of industries. I think the whole digital age came upon us so quickly, so easily, so pleasantly and so profitably that we simply missed the security downside at first.

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KnowBe4

MAY 23, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #21 | May 23rd, 2023 [Double Trouble] 78% of Ransomware Victims Face Multiple Extortions in Scary Trend New data sheds light on how likely your organization will succumb to a ransomware attack, whether you can recover your data, and what's inhibiting a proper security posture. This puts your network in jeopardy!

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

This is an excellent article that exposes the vulnerabilities when communications systems are not secure by design. They started out with: "As Putin began his invasion of Ukraine, a network used throughout Europe—and by the Ukrainian military—faced an unprecedented cyberattack that doubled as an industrywide wake-up call. government.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Security experts have been talking about the potential security vulnerabilities in Trump's cell phone use since he became president. And President Barack Obama bristled at -- but acquiesced to -- the security rules prohibiting him from using a "regular" cell phone throughout his presidency. This should surprise no one.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2023

The Biden administration today issued its vision for beefing up the nation’s collective cybersecurity posture, including calls for legislation establishing liability for software products and services that are sold with little regard for security. ” Many of the U.S. ” Many of the U.S.

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Data Matters

JUNE 25, 2018

Products should be secured during all stages of the lifecycle ,” as it is too easy to assemble botnets when devices lack the ability for effective patching or “remain in service after vendor support ends.”. Botnet Report. Automated, distributed attacks are an ecosystem-wide challenge ” that no “single stakeholder community can address.

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