Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

The Blackjack group is believed to be affiliated with Ukrainian intelligence services that carried out other attacks against Russian targets, including an internet provider and a military infrastructure. “For example, Blackjack claims to have damaged or destroyed 87,000 remote sensors and IoT collectors.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

.” Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed a Russian threat actor exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 flaw in targeted attacks against several organizations in the European government, transportation, energy, and military sectors, for approximately a year. ” concludes the expert.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“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. This program is one example of how the Department is partnering with the community to help protect our Nation’s cybersecurity.” . Mayorkas. “The

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 12, 2022

His approach uses the philosophy that is used in the military, whereby an untrained individual is placed into positions based on aptitude. If corporations looked internally, they could find people who demonstrate a proclivity towards security, and those people could be trained to be part of the security workforce.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

However, his experiment is a perfect example of how poor cyber hygiene can leave organizations vulnerable to cyber attacks. However, evidence suggests that the rogue superstate’s cyber capabilities are as weak as its military stance in Ukraine, especially when met with resistance.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2020

“This attack was done solely for fun” The group claims to have hacked numerous organizations and government agencies over the years, including US military, European Union, Washington DC, Israeli Defense Forces, the Indian Government, and some central banks. .” Ghost Squad Hackers’s member s1ege told me.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

The Gamaredon APT group continues to carry out attacks against entities in Ukraine, including security services, military, and government organizations. “A characteristic feature of the mentioned stealer working on a computer is the creation of a log file (for example, %LOCALAPPDATA%_profiles_1_new_.ini),

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The offensive volunteer unit Aushev said he is organizing would help Ukraine’s military conduct digital espionage operations against invading Russian forces. Ransomware gangs could provide their support for state-sponsored hackers, for example, providing them accesses to already compromised government organizations and businesses.

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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. . Check Point’s experts have analyzed examples of targeted, hijacked email threads with subjects related to Covid-19, tax payment reminders, and job recruitment content.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2022

The Donot Team has been active since 2016, it focuses on government and military organizations, ministries of foreign affairs, and embassies in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries. The Donot Team threat actor, aka APT-C-35 , has added new capabilities to its Jaca Windows malware framework.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The attacks against entities in Afghanistan took place prior to the Taliban’s recent takeover of the government in the country and the withdrawal of all military forces of the United States and its allies. “Talos has monitored many noisy Turla operations, for example. The threat actors are using the backdoorsince at least 2020.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

military’s Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture, it allows multiple independent cyber training operations to run simultaneously. “The Cyber Training Capabilities Project Arrangement signed today by Australia and the US “is an example of how the cyber mission forces of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

APT37 has been active since at least 2012, it mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. Below some examples of URLs used to load malicious code: hxxps://www.dailynk[.]com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.5.1 ” reads the post published by Volexity. services. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

A Server-side request forgery (also known as SSRF) is a web security vulnerability that allows an attacker to induce the server-side application to make HTTP requests to an arbitrary domain of the attacker’s choosing. “It seems they took the vulnerable service down also, this is their attempt to prevent future cyber attacks.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

RCS Lab was providing its software to military and intelligence agencies in Pakistan , Chile , Mongolia , Bangladesh , Vietnam , Myanmar and Turkmenistan. “For example, a current Tykelab employee’s LinkedIn profile indicates that they also work at RCS Lab. However, we found various publicly-available clues that suggest otherwise.

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

The popular cryptographer and researcher Moxie claims the list of customers of the company includes authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russia, Venezuela, and China, death squads in Bangladesh, and military juntas in Myanmar. Cellebrite produce two primary pieces products, the UFED and Physical Analyzer.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

For example, China-linked nation-state actors are more focused on cyberespionage aimed at stealing intellectual property, while Russia-linked Advanced Persistent Threat groups often operate to destabilize the political contest of foreign states, carry out cyber espionage activities, and conduct disinformation campaigns.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The news is quite curious, the US military will no longer use 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated computer (SACCS) to manage nuclear weapons arsenal. ” One of the military working for Lt. ” The use of the 8-inch floppy disks was revealed back in 2014 by the CBS “60 Minutes” TV show.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

The attackers appear to be focused o n stealing military-related information. The operators behind the Bouncing Golf campaign attempt to cover their tracks, for example, they masked the registrant contact details of the C&C domains used in the campaign.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Investors thought they were financially supporting efforts to develop radiation protection products that would eventually get marketed to the medical and military industries and generate substantial returns. For example, those parties are often the first to notice that seniors may be part of a scheme that adversely affects their finances.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2019

The group calls the agents and the military to stand against the corrupt policies. They should all follow our example, and that should do anything that could reveal disgusting abuses that politics do, as you say said before. The Anonymous expresses resentment for the arrests of alleged members of the collective.

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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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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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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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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Also research the impact of the information’s proximity to potential man-made hazards, for example the airport, military bases, plants or factories that handle hazardous or flammable material. Also, assess infrastructure that if faulty would cause lose of information.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 27, 2019

In the absence of federal action, states have been actively passing new and expanded requirements for privacy and cybersecurity (see some examples here and here ). Lastly, businesses must inform state regulators as to whether they maintain “a written information security program.”. New Jersey ( S.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 9, 2021

For example, a reviewed transaction may be related to the production of connected software applications in China or Russia but if restricted could affect businesses that rely on the connected software applications produced in these countries. The risk factors include. the scope and sensitivity of the data collected.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

For example, some methods meet national security and federal standards, while others are focused on private companies. Methodologies are exhaustive, detailed, and developed for different businesses and organizations.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. Platinum targets winlogon.exe but Kaspersky does not know how the injection occurs. .

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

Those of us in the information security community had long assumed that the NSA was doing things like this. It’s used to keeping this stuff behind multiple levels of security: gates with alarms, armed guards, safe doors, and military-grade cryptography. We technologists did a lot to help secure the Internet, for example.

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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. Once the sample is run it harvests information from many registry keys in where vendors are used to save access credentials or access tokens.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

One example of this is isolating or quarantining systems with malware (virus or ransomware) from the remainder of the network. Some of these playbooks can be deeply technical, but don’t forget to handle the administrative portions of crisis response: Who in your organization needs to be informed of a breach?

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Our military systems are vulnerable. We need to face that reality by halting the purchase of insecure weapons and support systems and by incorporating the realities of offensive cyberattacks into our military planning. Over the past decade, militaries have established cyber commands and developed cyberwar doctrine.

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