eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2022

A SaaS security company says a spike in cyber attacks from Russia and China in recent weeks suggests the two countries may be coordinating their cyber efforts. reported that hackers – some linked to Russian GRU military intelligence – breached computers at nearly two dozen U.S. SaaS Apps Under Attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2022

The researchers uncovered a phishing campaign conducted by a Russia-linked threat actor tracked as COLDRIVER (aka Calisto ) against a NATO Centre of Excellence and Eastern European militaries. Google experts pointed out that this is the first time that the cyberspies target NATO and military of multiple Eastern European countries.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Sports fans aren’t the only ones who are looking forward to this event. It’s not like bad actors haven’t taken an interest in major sporting events before. Just a couple of months after that, World Rugby itself announced that one of its training websites had suffered a security breach that exposed subscribers’ account information.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has started a campaign to increase awareness of these risks to U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Security experts from Sucuri analyzing a software skimmer that is abusing its brand name in order to evade detection. The skimmer is added to the onclick event of the checkout button and onunload event of the web page. The e-skimmer is a base64-encoded JavaScript blob that attackers inject into target webpages.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Although there have still been a few surprises, with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and blazing heatwaves across the UK to name but two, it was a familiar year in the cyber security landscape. Google , Clearview AI , and Meta all receives hefty penalties in 2022, demonstrating the continued important of effective information security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2024

The group also relies on valid accounts and leverage strong operational security, which combined, allows for long-term undiscovered persistence. The Volt Typhoon’s activities suggest that the group primarily aims to establish a foothold within networks to secure access to Operational Technology (OT) assets. In fact, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A search in Google for a string of text from that script turns up a December 2023 blog post from cryptocurrency security firm SlowMist about phishing attacks on Telegram from North Korean state-sponsored hackers. The North Korean regime is known to use stolen cryptocurrencies to fund its military and other state projects.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. February 25 – Ukraine: Belarusian APT group UNC1151 targets military personnel with spear phishing. February 15 – Ukraine: Military defense agencies and banks hit by cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Threat actors are spreading password-stealing malware disguised as a security tool to target Ukraine’s IT Army. Below is the timeline of the events related to the previous weeks: [link].

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

These days, dozens of teams from around the world compete in weekend-long marathon events held all over the world. In 2016, DARPA ran a similarly styled event for artificial intelligence (AI). A system called Mayhem, created by a team of Carnegie-Mellon computer security researchers, won. Details of these events are few.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Security experts from Cyble found alleged sensitive documents of NATO and Turkey, is it a case of cyber hacktivism or cyber espionage? “These events ensue an unsatisfying narrative – Is it really hacktivism or cyber espionage?” ” reads the post published by Cyble. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NATO).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

to preserve its network infrastructure and to continue providing services to Ukraine’s Armed Forces and other military formations as well as to the customers, Ukrtelecom has temporarily limited providing its services to the majority of private users and business-clients,” the SSSCIP added. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Dutch government will not tolerate ransomware attacks that could threaten national security, it will use intelligence or military services to curb them. The Dutch government announced that it will not tolerate cyberattacks that pose a risk to its national security and will employ intelligence or military services to counter them.

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OpenText Information Management

MARCH 28, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency and National Security Agency have requested that each U.S. DNS Exfil, SCADA controls, DGA), but also need the additional layer of security that may be missed by using only endpoint protection (e.g. State carry out comprehensive assessments of their cybersecurity services and practices.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Today’s enterprises face a broad range of threats to their security, assets and critical business processes. While different—mainly due to the causes of the events they help mitigate—cyber recovery and DR are often complementary, with many enterprises wisely choosing to deploy both. What is cyber recovery?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

government IT contractor that does business with more than 20 federal agencies, including several branches of the military. Department of Homeland Security that manages the nation’s naturalization and immigration system. Image: Hold Security. Department of Transportation , the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The DHS has launched a new bug bounty program dubbed ‘Hack DHS’ to discover security vulnerabilities in external DHS systems. As the federal government’s cybersecurity quarterback, DHS must lead by example and constantly seek to strengthen the security of our own systems,” said Secretary Alejandro N. “As Mayorkas. “The

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Thousands of satellite internet users across Europe were disconnected from the internet by a cyber-event, experts suspect a cyber attack. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Teodoro ordered “to refrain from using AI photo generator applications and practice vigilance in sharing information online” At this time, it remains unclear whether the order was issued in response to a specific event or to address potential attacks aimed at exploiting the data collected by these applications.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

GoDaddy discloses a security breach, threat actors have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers in a long-runing attack. The security breach was discovered in December 2022 after customer reported that their sites were being used to redirect to random domains. ” concludes the company.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

. “We’re well aware that in today’s world it’s possible to influence the situation in states by using these methods ( cyberwar ),” Mariusz Blaszczak told to local media at a military cyber training centre in Zegrze. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Washington, D.C. – Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Christopher Fonzone, former National Security Council (NSC) legal adviser and deputy assistant and counsel to President Obama, has joined the firm as a partner in its Washington, D.C. He will be a member of Sidley’s global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

This week, during the third edition of CYSAT, the European event dedicated to cybersecurity for the space industry, the European Space Agency (ESA) set up a satellite test bench, inviting white hat hackers to attempt seizing control of OPS-SAT , a nanosatellite operated by the agency for demonstration purposes. .”

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Limit financial and military power? My perspective, of course, is security. It was amazing event. Details of the event—emerging themes, notes from the speakers—are in the comments.) And much more: What about the justice system? Is the twelfth-century jury form still relevant? How do we define fairness?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The list of Crypto’s customers included Iran, India and Pakistan, military juntas in Latin America and the Vatican. The events under discussion date back to 1945 and are difficult to reconstruct and interpret in the present-day context,”. The company was completely under the control of the spy agencies since 1970.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Snyder says his experience as head of Gateway Computers and as an investor in tech security startups, prior to entering politics, gave him an awareness of why putting Michigan ahead of the curve, dealing with cyber threats, would be vital. “I military unit, MEDC and TARDEC this summer hosted the second annual Commercial CyberTruck Challenge.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of attacks exploiting recently disclosed VPN vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure. Threat actors leverage VPN vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure, to breach into the target networks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Garda and military intelligence agencies believe the Russian agents were sent by the military intelligence branch of the Russian armed forces, the GRU. The post Russian spies are attempting to tap transatlantic undersea cables appeared first on Security Affairs. Source [link]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2019

We register suspicious events against NATO cyber systems every day. ” Since 2016 NATO members agreed that a cyber attack against one of them could trigger a military response under Article 5. At the heart of our military command structure.” “NATO is not immune. ” said Stoltenberg. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

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. is the creation of mandatory requirements for critical infrastructure security.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

based security vendor in the thick of helping companies make more of their threat feeds. The company launched in 2013, the brainchild of Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang, a couple of buddies working as security analysts in a U.S. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. ThreatQuotient is a Reston, Virg.-based Talk more soon.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 12, 2022

History shows how a small event built on daisy-chained circumstances can kick off a catastrophe, or even a shooting war. Cyberattack campaigns make strategic military sense since they are designed to impact communications, impact energy, cripple a population, military readiness, or make any number of dire situations worse.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Provides certain exemptions from public disclosure for materials provided to the state in response to an investigation of a breach of security. 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.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. You read so much classified information about the world’s geopolitical events that you start seeing the world differently. I tried to talk to Greenwald about his own operational security. It made sense.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We identified 102 security incidents throughout the month, which is the second largest figure so far this year – trailing only August (112). 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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Preservica

DECEMBER 29, 2022

From academic institutions and government agencies to corporate businesses and the health sector, 2022 was full of world events that will shape our history forever. Collections Manager at the Military Women’s Memorial , Amy Poe, faced a wide range of challenges in making their collections easily accessible and secure online.

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