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

MAY 5, 2021

The group targeted the organization with phishing attacks aimed at spreading at least three new sophisticated malware strains. The phishing messages include links to a malicious website that serves the malware, experts pointed out that the emails had subject lines that were customized for each targeted organization.

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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. Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks. ” reads the joint advisory.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2022

Passwordless authentication was developed to combat phishing attacks, a crucial risk that cannot be ignored. In 2021, a shocking 83% of organisations reported that they had experienced some form of a phishing attack, and one-third of phishing emails are opened by recipients. FIDO is a very good extension for PKI.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Disaster recovery can refer to everything from equipment failures, power outages, cyberattacks, civil emergencies, natural disasters and criminal or military attacks, but it is most commonly used to describe events with non-malicious causes. What is cyber recovery? How do cyber recovery and disaster recovery work?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

For example, Mitnik received eight months in solitary confinement because a federal judge was convinced that Mitnick could hack into U.S. military systems and launch nuclear missiles through mere whistling. Some support for claims of overzealous prosecution can be found in court records.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

.” The Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD) is a foreign intelligence unit that is coordinated by China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), the agency that is tasked for non-military foreign intelligence and domestic counterintelligence operations. The campaign was carried out at least from January 2010 to May 2015.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #27 | July 5th, 2023 [Heads Up] Massive Impersonation Phishing Campaign Imitates Over 100 Brands and Thousands of Domains A year-long phishing campaign has been uncovered that impersonates 100+ popular clothing, footwear, and apparel brands using at least 10 fake domains impersonating each brand. Save My Spot!

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Tensions rose throughout February as the Russian military amassed across the Ukrainian border. Although Vladimir Putin and his sympathisers assured the world that they were simply conducting military exercises, the inevitable occurred on 24 February, when troops mobilised and war was declared.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

So the threats that we look after are ones that you would see popular in the wild and against the customers that work large financial institutions, militaries, the US military, foreign militaries, NATO partners, how well do they defend and react against these threats? So the question is, what are the Russians up to?

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In many cases, online access to look up data through these companies is secured by nothing more than a username and password that can be stolen or phished by cybercrooks and abused to pull privileged information on consumers. In other cases, it’s trivial for anyone to sign up for these services.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The second piece – which your EDR vendor, for example, may already offer – is a ransomware removal tool that may be able to decrypt your data and remove the ransomware quickly, and possibly even block an attack before it gets anywhere. But “recover” is a key term: make sure you have the bandwidth to restore your data quickly.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. The hackers don’t appear to be financially motivated due to the nature of targeted entities and TTPs of the group.

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The Security Ledger

JULY 26, 2018

» Related Stories Expert says: Hack your Smart Home to Secure It Fitness apps: Good for your health, not so much for military security Mobile, automation-industry leaders promote two new IoT security efforts. Among them: establishing strong device. Read the whole entry. » Secure identities are the foundation of secure ecosystems.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

18, 2021, when an employee on a Windows computer opened a booby-trapped Microsoft Excel document in a phishing email that had been sent two days earlier. The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand. Now this is in itself isn’t bad.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

Grimes Teaches You Phishing Mitigation Phishing attacks have come a long way from the spray-and-pray emails of just a few decades ago. Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, where he'll share a comprehensive strategy for phishing mitigation. They are prominent techniques used by phishing scammers everywhere.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Many security programs focus on employee education (creating a strong password, being aware of phishing, etc.). In addition, make it easy to report security concerns (phishing, data leaks, social engineering , password compromise, etc.). Educate employees. Your employees can be your first line of defense or your weakest link.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Screenshot example. Expanding on what a ransomware attack looks like, here is an example of how Locky would appear on your desktop. But what distinguishes Ryuk’s deadliness is its military-grade levels of encryption, ability to delete shadow copies on the endpoint , and encrypt network drives and resources.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Netherlands-based company with 12 million users worldwide provides “military-grade data protection” solutions with its popular DataVault encryption software. According to Vareikis, the discovery is worrying since bad actors could exploit the aforementioned data for a variety of cyberattacks – from phishing to ransomware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace. For example, in 2019, Lazarus attacked a nuclear organization in India, which led to the power plant’s second unit being shut down.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Examples of services security include: AD security : Adds layers of security to Active Directory to eliminate unneeded access or permission levels, detect unauthorized changes, and block other attacks on AD. Basic cybersecurity training uses cybersecurity training courses to educate about common issues such as phishing and ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Not every application or network requires military-grade encryption – however, enterprise organizations can’t go wrong with the services offering the most strength. A visible example of the role encryption plays with everyday web traffic is the transition from HTTP to HTTPS protocols witnessed in the last decade.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 6, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #23 | June 6th, 2023 [Wake-Up Call] It's Time to Focus More on Preventing Spear Phishing Fighting spear phishing attacks is the single best thing you can do to prevent breaches. spear phishing attacks that use personalized messages. What exactly is spear phishing? This is that fact: ".spear

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 19, 2023

“No battle plan survives contact with the enemy,” wrote military theorist, Helmuth von Moltke, who believed in developing a series of options for battle instead of a single plan. Brute forcing credentials: Systematically guesses passwords, for example, by trying credentials from breach dumps or lists of commonly used passwords.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. When we travel, for example, to a different country, we have this thing called a passport, you know, this physical thing that we hold in our hands. Lewis: Good. Other: Wait.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Vamosi: Perhaps Kyle can give us an example of how this works in the real world. My favorite example of how this works is it's not always additive, meaning they need to bring in their own complex payloads. N etwork Chuck : Let's say I receive an email, a phishing email. And that was kind of the beginning of what we saw.

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KnowBe4

MAY 23, 2023

CyberEdge mentions threatening to publicly release data, notifying customers or media, and committing a DDoS attack as examples of additional threats mentioned by respondents. Blog post with links: [link] [Free Tool] Who Will Fall Victim to QR Code Phishing Attacks? This puts your network in jeopardy!

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

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. The packages themselves weren't malicious, but they contained README text files with links to phishing sites. government.

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

A cardplayer yawns when they're about to bluff, for example, or someone's pupils dilate when they've successfully drawn a winning card. Blog post with links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

For example, organizations dealing with the most sensitive data—such as defense contractors—should target the adaptive tier across functional areas, while organizations with a lower risk profile may decide to target lower tiers when designing their systems. Mandatory Access Control. Role-Based Access Control. Managing Digital Identities.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Although Creeper is the first known example of a worm, it is not actually malware. At the time, only about 60,000 computers had access to the internet, mostly at universities and within the military. The attack is an early example of social engineering and phishing. Thus the first computer worm was born.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 26, 2019

cybersecurity vendors CrowdStrike and FireEye point to Iran-backed hacking collectives targeting US government agencies, as well as finance and energy companies with spear-phishing emails. An offensive cyber strike by the U.S. Reports from U.S. Then last Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security alerted U.S.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Approximately 30% of phishing web pages were related to Covid-19. In April 2020, Google reported 18 million instances per day of malware and phishing email sent via its Gmail service using Covid-related topics as a lure. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

President Joe Biden for “massive cyberattacks” aimed at disrupting the Russian invasion – initial reports of cyber attacks have in some cases been destructive and damaging, but not anywhere near anyone’s worst-case fears of utility system attacks, for example.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We’re back for our second ‘catches of the month’ feature of the new decade, where we review recent phishing attacks and help you understand the threat of cyber crime. million in phishing scam. The attack took place in November 2019, with several employees receiving phishing emails containing invoices supposedly from vendors.

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