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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions. Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe.

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The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data

Schneier on Security

Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. This isn’t new, this isn’t just data of non-US citizens, and this isn’t the US military.

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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

Krebs on Security

as members of the PLA’s 54 th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. Attorney General Bill Barr said at a press conference today that the Justice Department doesn’t normally charge members of another country’s military with crimes (this is only the second time the agency has indicted Chinese military hackers).

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Experts spotted Industrial Spy, a new stolen data marketplace

Security Affairs

A new marketplace named Industrial Spy that focuses on the sale of stolen data appeared in the threat landscape. Malware HunterTeam and Bleeping Computer reported the born of a new marketplace called Industrial Spy that sells stolen data and offers free stolen data to its members. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Industrial Spy).

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New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace

Krebs on Security

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. “The infosec industry is always trying to distinguish [the work] of one APT group from another. i-SOON CEO Wu Haibo, in 2011.

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GUEST ESSAY: Theft of MQ-9 Reaper docs highlights need to better protect ‘high-value assets’

The Last Watchdog

military information for sale on the Dark Web for a nominal sum, in and of itself, is unfortunate and unremarkable. Here is what is known thus far: Team members of the Insikt Group encountered an English-speaking hacker who jumped on a Dark Web forum to pitch the sale of MQ-9 Reaper UAV docs for $150 to $200.

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EU bodies agree on new EU export rules for dual-use technology

Security Affairs

The European Union this week agreed to tighten up rules for the sale and export of dual-use technology. European Parliament votes to tighten up rules for the sale and export of surveillance and encryption technology. The term “ dual-use ” refers to technology that can be used for both peaceful and military aims.

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