Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In Q1 2023, threat actors linked to Russia’s military intelligence service focused their phishing campaigns on Ukraine, with the country accounting for over 60% of observed Russian targeting. The group targeted multiple sectors, including government, defense, energy, transportation/logistics, education, and humanitarian organizations.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2021

The Defence Academy of the United Kingdom provides higher education for personnel in the British Armed Forces, Civil Service, other government departments and service personnel from other nations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Proofpoint researchers recently reported that a Russian hacking group, tracked as Winter Vivern (aka TA473), has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities ( CVE-2022-27926 ) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats. reads the post published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2024

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The APT group is using almost exclusively living-off-the-land techniques and hands-on-keyboard activity to evade detection.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Cyber security of satellite systems is becoming crucial due to the growing number of commercial and military applications that rely on them. .” Thales pointed out that throughout the entire exercise, ESA had access to the satellite’s systems to retain control. ” said Pierre-Yves Jolivet, VP Cyber Solutions, Thales.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

However, the attackers chose a domain name that gives the impression of a connection to the South African military. This domain has been hosted on eight other IPs throughout its history, none of these IPs were directly affiliated with the South African government. Experts added that the IP 196.216.136[.]139 139 resolved to vpn729380678.softether[.]net

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 7, 2020

The Central Military Commission will develop the measures regulating military Data Activities. Promotion of Data Usage While Maintaining Data Security. Data Security Regulatory System. reporting to competent Chinese regulatory authorities upon request by regulatory authorities abroad.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

“Microsoft assesses that Mint Sandstorm is associated with an intelligence arm of Iran’s military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an assessment that has been corroborated by multiple credible sources including Mandiant , Proofpoint , and SecureWorks.” ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The cyber espionage group has tampered with updates released by IT company SolarWinds, which provides its products to government agencies, military, and intelligence offices, two people familiar with the matter told the Reuters agency. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The group has continued launching attacks against entities in Southeast Asia, including military, satellite communications, media and educational organizations. Security experts at Symantec speculate that Thrip is a sub-group of Billbug. Researchers discovered that Sagerunex borrows code from an older Billbug tool dubbed Evora.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 4, 2023

The voices of third sector representatives (NGOs, foundations, and educational institutions) are considered by government officials when justifying policy positions and determining how resources and political capital are spent. Education about cybersecurity needs to start early," Karabin says. The genie's out of the box.

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Lenny Zeltser

JUNE 2, 2018

Information security? Computer security, perhaps? If we examine the factors that influence our desire to use one security title over the other, we’ll better understand the nature of the industry and its driving forces. Paul Melson and Loren Dealy Mahler viewed cybersecurity as a subset of information security.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through its Education Platform. Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram blocked in Turkey as Idlib military crisis escalates. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The STRONTIUM APT group (aka APT28 , Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , and Sednit ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2022

Morrow, OD notifies patients of data security incident (unknown) Ukrainian websites struck by DDoS attacks as Russia launches invasion (unknown) Cookware distribution giant Meyer discloses data breach (unknown) CVS Pharmacy discloses security incident (6,221) Ethos Technologies targeted in ‘sophisticated’ cyber attack (13,300) South Shore Hospital (..)

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2021

She is a daughter of a military father and so she went to West Point Academy, as one of the first female cadets. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is relatively new. It’s first directory, Chris Krebs, was fired by then-president Tump for saying that the 2020 election was the most secure election in history.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

billion rubles.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2019

The experts also discovered a large number of insurance certificates that expose various personally identifiable information (PII), such as names, phone numbers, postal and email addresses. CENTCOM requisition form for use of military aircraft. One of the files exposed via the malware analysis sandboxes appeared to be a U.S.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

. » Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: Flashpoint’s Allison Nixon on SIM Swapping and the Looming Online Identity Crisis Taking the Long View of Breach Fallout Analysis of 85K Remote Desktop Hacks Finds Education, Healthcare Top Targets. See also: Military documents about MQ-9 Reaper drone leaked on dark web.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2023

The US newspaper refers to the malware as a “ticking time bomb” that could be activated to disrupt the military. military operations in the event of a conflict, including if Beijing moves against Taiwan in coming years.” military operations in the event of a conflict, including if Beijing moves against Taiwan in coming years.”

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 1, 2012

3523), which is aimed at facilitating the exchange of cyber threat intelligence information between the government and certain private entities. In addition, the House approved the Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 2012 (H.R. Federal Information Security Amendments Act.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Google , Clearview AI , and Meta all receives hefty penalties in 2022, demonstrating the continued important of effective information security. But these were far from the only notable cyber security headlines of the year. Tensions rose throughout February as the Russian military amassed across the Ukrainian border.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. The military has these massive computer networks.

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Military Passwords Cybersecurity IT 52

ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. The military has these massive computer networks.

Military 52

Military Passwords Cybersecurity IT 52

ForAllSecure

JULY 21, 2020

In the inaugural episode, The Hacker Mind looks at why the West Point Military Academy, and other organizations within the DoD, is training its young cadets to hack. Or maybe, just maybe back in 2014, West Point and other military service academies, are on to something really important. The military has these massive computer networks.

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Military Passwords Cybersecurity IT 52

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Educate employees. Many security programs focus on employee education (creating a strong password, being aware of phishing, etc.). military exercise their plans often – it builds human muscle memory and increases comfort and resiliency in the people working through these crises.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I paged through weekly reports, presentation slides from status meetings, and general briefings to educate visitors. Those of us in the information security community had long assumed that the NSA was doing things like this. The meeting presenters try to spice things up. I wasn’t sleeping well, either.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Information security is not yet a science; outside of the handful of issues falling under the field of cryptography, there is no formalized system of classification. The most prepared cybersecurity programs of today will not attempt to implement a static, “out-of-the-box” solution to cyber risk.

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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.”. Increase awareness and education across the ecosystem.”. in isolation.”. State Department Reports. On May 31, 2018, the U.S.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

CISSP, Chief Information Security Officer The 10 Interesting News Items This Week Chinese malware intended to infect USB drives accidentally infects networked storage too: [link] Ukraine Cracks Down on Investment Scams, Raids Call Centers: [link] EncroChat takedown led to 6,500(!) ." - T.K.,

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Data Matters

JANUARY 24, 2020

OCIE also will focus on recommendations and advice provided to retail investors, with a particular emphasis on seniors, retirees, teachers and military personnel, as well as products that the SEC considers higher risk (e.g., Information Security . Additional Focus Areas Specific to Broker-Dealers.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Information Security . OCIE will continue to examine municipal advisors (including broker-dealers and RIAs dually registered as municipal advisors) for compliance with registration, professional qualification and continuing education requirements. Additional Focus Areas Specific to Broker-Dealers.

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