Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2022

One of the most clamorous leaks announced this leak is related to documents allegedly stolen from Russian troops that demonstrate the planning of Moscow for this war. At the moment it has not been possible to verify the authenticity of the published documents, therefore the reliability of the source remains difficult to verify.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2020

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. Experts also noticed that hackers also used NirSoft utilities to recover passwords from web browsers and email clients.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. In December 2019, the APT group targeted several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement. The Gamaredon group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

US and UK cybersecurity agencies said today that a Russian military cyber unit has been behind a series of brute-force attacks that have targeted the cloud IT resources of government and private sector companies across the world. The document also provides Yare Rules and mitigations. ” reads the advisory published by the NSA.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 3, 2021

credit or debit card number, or any financial account number in combination with any required security code, access code or password that would permit access to such financial account. 60-Day Notification Window. Public Disclosure Exemption. Additional Considerations for Businesses.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010. The US authorities also accuse Assange of having conspired with Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a password hash for an Army computer to access classified documents that were later published on the WikiLeaks website.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Ivan Yermakov worked for the Russian Military Unit 26165 and was indicted by the US DoJ in October 2018, along six other defendants working for the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate ( GRU ), for hacking, wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. .” based filing agents.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million newborns and pregnancy care patients Xenomorph malware is back after months of hiatus and expands the list of targets Smishing Triad Stretches Its Tentacles into the United Arab Emirates Crooks stole $200 million worth of assets from Mixin Network A phishing campaign targets Ukrainian military entities with drone manual lures Alert!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Gamaredon Group is a Cyber Espionage persistent operation attributed to Russians FSB ( Federal Security Service ) in a long-term military and geo-political confrontation against the Ukrainian government and more in general against the Ukrainian military power. . Overview of the document. The downloaded document has a “.dot”

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

First, it said that it would invest in cultivating military assets in the digital space, as reported by the Organization for World Peace. Users can help protect their personal data by using a VPN and protecting each of their web accounts with a strong, unique password. When opened, the document asked users to enable macros.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

FBI recommends using passphrases instead of complex passwords. Data on Detection of Malicious Documents in Gmail are impressive. Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram blocked in Turkey as Idlib military crisis escalates. ISS reveals malware attack impacted parts of the IT environment. Lampion malware v2 February 2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

However, evidence suggests that the rogue superstate’s cyber capabilities are as weak as its military stance in Ukraine, especially when met with resistance. “I was able to access people’s names, other IP addresses pointing to other computers on the network, and financial documents, too,” he said.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 14, 2018

Written Disposal Policy: The Bill requires covered entities to create a written policy for the destruction or proper disposal of paper and electronic documents containing personal identifying information that requires the destruction of those documents when they are no longer needed.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

The company reset passwords of the affected customers and reported the intrusion to law enforcement. According to documents filed with the U.S. Our investigation has also identified evidence of unauthorized access to files containing personal information relating to you.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

These are, of course, on top of the obviously ominous features such as password retrieval and key logging that are normally seen in Remote Access Trojans.”. I tend to have a violent nature, and have both Martial arts and Military training. 2017 analysis of the RAT. This makes it harder for targets to remove it from their systems.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 22, 2020

Expand the definition of a breach to include login credentials, meaning “a consumer’s user name or e-mail address, in combination with a password or an answer to a security question, that together permit access to an online account.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Precision engineering is a very important business market in Europe, it includes developing mechanical equipment for: automotive, railways, heavy industries and military grade technology. Basically the attacker asks to the victims to quote the entire list of spear-parts included in an attached Excel document. Technical Analysis.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2022

reported that hackers – some linked to Russian GRU military intelligence – breached computers at nearly two dozen U.S. Companies should also monitor SaaS file-sharing activity “to determine whether or not users are effectively and safely using document creation and file-sharing,” the report said.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 23, 2022

Common operations like enumerating services, cracking passwords, intercepting HTTP requests, or even analyzing malware do not necessarily require a pentesting OS. CAINE lacks documentation, which limits the kind of support users can receive. It offers great documentation. See the Best Penetration Testing Tools.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2019

The discovered attack appears to be designed to lure military personnel: it leverage a legit document of the “State of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” dated back in the 2nd April 2019. Figure 1: Fake document shown after infection. The origin of the infection is an executable file pretending to be an RTF document.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Since many people use the same passwords or patterns when generating passwords, hackers have more and more opportunities to gain access to sensitive company data. Password manager tools allow organizations and their employees to seamlessly and securely handle login credentials. Best Password Manager Tools.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Cyber attacks. million) CO-based Mental Health Partners says an employee’s account was hacked (unknown) Sumitomo Forestry Co., Hitachi Chemical Co. Cyber attacks. million) CO-based Mental Health Partners says an employee’s account was hacked (unknown) Sumitomo Forestry Co., Hitachi Chemical Co. Data breaches.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The CFPB’s document includes links to Web sites for 46 different consumer credit reporting entities , along with information about your legal rights to obtain data in your reports and dispute suspected inaccuracies with the companies as needed. In other cases, it’s trivial for anyone to sign up for these services.

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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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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

These un-indexed and often password protected sites are where cyber criminals, terrorist groups, drug dealers, hacktivists, and nation state actors and privacy extremists congregate, chat, plot and do business. See also: Military documents about MQ-9 Reaper drone leaked on dark web.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 How Microsoft Excel is able to decrypt such a content if no password is requested to the end user? 1 and OleObj.2.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

While it can be cumbersome, hard to obtain buy-in, and require an upfront cost, it is one of the most important documents that your office can create. Creation and maintenance of an information management disaster plan is a never-ending task. Protecting your information is protecting your assets. Essential-and-Vital-Records-1 Download.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This creates a lot of opportunities for hackers to gain access to company resources because users often reuse passwords or mirror patterns in creating them. The recent boom in remote work due to the Covid-19 pandemic has further amplified the need to secure network endpoints , in which effective password management plays a big role.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

Take the following example, provided by Phish Labs: [CONTINUED] Blog post with screenshot: [link] Are Your Users' Passwords. Are your users' passwords…P@ssw0rd? Verizon's Data Breach Report showed that 81% of hacking-related breaches used either stolen and/or weak passwords. It originates from a researcher within Google.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ransomware frequently contains extraction capabilities that can steal critical information like usernames and passwords, so stopping ransomware is serious business. However, Windows hides file extensions by default, allowing a malicious executable such as “evil.doc.exe” to appear to be a Word document called “evil.doc”.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

And security researchers from UpGuard discovered ten years’ worth of sensitive documents from more than 100 manufacturing companies exposed on a publicly accessible rsync server belonging to the engineering firm Level One Robotics. Users were encouraged to change their passwords. million account holders.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 18, 2023

However, once the user downloads and extracts the file, the Redline Stealer (aka RedStealer) malware is activated and is capable of stealing passwords and downloading further malware onto the user's device." The criminals will often deploy phony but official-looking documents to press their case. with tax-related phishing emails.

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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. This was before the commercial internet when it was easier to forge documents to create new identities today. There are a lot. Not so easy.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Passwords are everywhere, but they probably weren't intended to be used as much as they are today. Maybe you are at an organization that requires you to change your passwords every 90 days or so, and so you have password fatigue -- there are only so many variations you can do every 90 days or so. I must have the password.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2019

During recent times, Gamaredon is targeting the Ukrainian military and law enforcement sectors too, as officially stated by the CERT-UA. The infection chain is composed by different stages of password protected SFX (self extracting archive), each containing vbs or batch scripts. Fake document to divert attention on malware execution.

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