Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

New report comes out just as group of US senators chastise Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for not using multifactor authentication.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. Change any default usernames and passwords.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. government has used court orders to remotely disinfect systems compromised with malware. Today’s operation is not the first time the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

DataLocker honed its patented approach to manufacturing encrypted portable drives and landed some key military and government clients early on; the company has continued branching out ever since. All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data. DataLocker actually got traction, early on, selling to the military.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

surfaces in the threat landscape Pokemon Company resets some users’ passwords Ukraine cyber police arrested crooks selling 100 million compromised accounts New AcidPour wiper targets Linux x86 devices. Is it a Russia’s weapon? Players hacked during the matches of Apex Legends Global Series.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The group operates out of military unity 26165 of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS). The Government experts pointed out that in some cases the group did not deployed any backdoor in the compromised systems. ” reads trhe announcement published by DKWOC.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2023

A Russian hacking group, tracked 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. The CVE-2022-27926 flaw affects Zimbra Collaboration versions 9.0.0,

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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.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

China-linked Curious Gorge APT is targeting Russian government agencies, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that an APT group linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLA SSF), tracked as Curious Gorge , is targeting Russian government agencies.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

Collectively in control over millions of spam-spewing zombies, those botmasters also continuously harvested passwords and other data from infected machines. As we’ll see in a moment, Salomon is now behind bars, in part because he helped to rob dozens of small businesses in the United States using some of those same harvested passwords.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2021

DEV-0343: Iran-linked threat actors are targeting US and Israeli defense technology companies leveraging password spraying attacks. Threat actors are launching extensive password spraying attacks aimed at the target organizations, the malicious campaign was first spotted in July 2021. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Expert found Backdoor credentials in ZyXEL LTE3301 M209 Raspberry Robin malware used in attacks against Telecom and Governments TikTok parent company ByteDance revealed the use of TikTok data to track journalists BetMGM discloses security breach impacting 1.5

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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 SSU is continuously taking steps to contain and neutralize Russia’s cyber aggression against Ukraine.”

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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. ” reads the advisory published by the NSA. . ” reads the advisory published by the NSA.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. This and other “nordia@” emails shared a password: “ anna59.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2022

MiCODUS is used today by 420,000 customers in multiple industries, including government, military, law enforcement agencies, and Fortune 1000 companies. CVE-2022-2141 (CVSS score: 9.8) – Improper authentication allows a user to send some SMS commands to the GPS tracker without a password.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2020

government and military personnel will remain in a federal prison. Ardit Ferizi , aka Th3Dir3ctorY, is the hacker that supported the ISIS organization by handing over data for 1,351 US government and military personnel. Leaked data included names, e-mail addresses, passwords, locations and phone numbers of 1,351 U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2022

Anonymous announced to have hacked more than 2,500 websites linked to the Russian and Belarusian governments, state-owned media outlets spreading disinformation, Russian private organizations, banks, hospitals, airports. JUST IN: #Anonymous leaks database of the Russian Government website [ [link] ].

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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

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

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. The experts pointed out that ARCHIPELAGO focuses on building a rapport with targets.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

Threat actors are spreading password-stealing malware disguised as a security tool to target Ukraine’s IT Army. March 9 – Multiple Russian government websites hacked in a supply chain attack. Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukraine and European government and military orgs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2022

” The SessionManager backdoor was employed in attacks against NGOs, government, military and industrial organizations in Africa, South America, Asia, Europe, Russia and the Middle East. The report also includes Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this threat. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

A British court has rejected the request of the US government to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the country. government will likely appeal the decision. He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010. link] — Freedom of the Press (@FreedomofPress) January 4, 2021.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Expert found Backdoor credentials in ZyXEL LTE3301 M209 Raspberry Robin malware used in attacks against Telecom and Governments TikTok parent company ByteDance revealed the use of TikTok data to track journalists BetMGM discloses security breach impacting 1.5

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Adam Levin

MARCH 12, 2019

While not confirmed, the FBI has advised that the hackers likely used a tactic known as password spraying, a technique that exploits weak passwords. The details and scope of the damage caused by the attack are still unclear, but the activity has been tracked back to Iridium, a hacking group linked to the Iranian government.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

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 cyberespionage group continues to target members of defense companies, embassies, governments, and the military.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The US Government Accounting Office just published a new report: " Weapons Systems Cyber Security: DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Vulnerabilities " (summary here ). From the summary: Automation and connectivity are fundamental enablers of DOD's modern military capabilities.

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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. Additional Considerations for Businesses.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The APT hacking group is believed to have been behind numerous attacks this year, including an attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure and the deployment of a persistent botnet called “ Cyclops Blink ” dismantled by the US government in April. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

The Transparent Tribe cyber-espionage group continues to improve its arsenal while targets Military and Government entities. The Transparent Tribe APT group is carrying out an ongoing cyberespionage campaign aimed at military and diplomatic targets worldwide. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 2, 2021

requiring “preliminary substitute notice” to individuals if a business cannot provide direct notification within the 60-day notification timeframe.

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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. . Password Grabber Module – a large module that downloads Mimikatz and tries to harvest passwords. ” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint.

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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. China-linked threat actors targeted dozens of industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and Europe.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2022

The Tropic Trooper APT has been active at least since 2012, it was first spotted by security experts at Trend Micro in 2015, when the threat actors targeted government ministries and heavy industries in Taiwan and the military in the Philippines. The attack aims at making the device unusable.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

“The CRTC executed a warrant under Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) and the RCMP National Division executed a search warrant under the Criminal Code respectively,” reads a statement published last week by the Canadian government. I tend to have a violent nature, and have both Martial arts and Military training. In 2014, the U.S.

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