Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Ransomware-as-a-Service Group Purports to Sell Indian Military Data on Dark Web The BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service group says it's selling 2 terabytes worth of military data including classified documents culled from Indian explosives and propellant manufacturer Solar Industries.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 4, 2021

The NSA has just declassified and released a redacted version of Military Cryptanalytics , Part III, by Lambros D. Callimahos, October 1977. Parts I and II, by Lambros D. Callimahos and William F. I own them in hardcover. Like Parts I and II, Part III is primarily concerned with pre-computer ciphers. The monograph a while to become public.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

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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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 31, 2023

Military Intelligence-Linked Group Attacked Ukrainian Energy Sector Firm, Says Eset Security researchers say they found the Russian intelligence-linked Sandworm threat actor deploying a novel disk wiper against an energy sector company located in Ukraine. Data wipers have played a key role in Russia's hacking campaign against Ukraine.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2023

The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have hacked SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA and to have stolen 2TB of “secret military data.” The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have breached the company infrastructure and to have stolen 2TB of data, including secret military data related to weapons production.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 31, 2021

Callimahos’s Military Cryptanalytics, Part III. Late last year, the NSA declassified and released a redacted version of Lambros D. We just got most of the index. It’s hard to believe that there are any real secrets left in this 44-year-old volume.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This year, 750 cyber specialists have participated in the military cyberwarfare exercise. The Defence Cyber Marvel 2 (DCM2) is the largest training exercise organised by the Army Cyber Association to allow personnel from across the Armed Forces to build their skills within the cyber and electromagnetic domain.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Chinese threat actors, tracked as Tropic Trooper and KeyBoy, has been targeting air-gapped military networks in Taiwan and the Philippines. Chinese APT group Tropic Trooper, aka KeyBoy, has been targeting air-gapped military networks in Taiwan and the Philippines, Trend Micro researchers reported. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

UK printing company Doxzoo exposed hundreds of gigabytes of information, including documents related to the US and British military. “There are potentially over 100,000 users affected by this data leak, with implications not only for copyright violations, but also American and British military data exposure.”

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 14, 2023

military IT specialist, Jack Teixeira, on suspicion of leaking highly classified documents begs the question of why he had access to them in the first place. National Guard Airman Jack Teixeira Charged With Mishandling Intelligence The arrest of a low-level U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The post Ukraine: Belarusian APT group UNC1151 targets military personnel with spear phishing appeared first on Security Affairs. All your personal data has been sent to a public network. All data on your computer is destroyed and cannot be recovered. All information about you stab (public, fairy tale and wait for the worst.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 23, 2023

BlueNoroff Changed Attack Tactics in 2023 After Its TTPs Were Leaked The BlueNoroff hacker group, which is associated with the North Korean military's Reconnaissance General Bureau, is using RustBucket malware to target macOS systems of users primarily in the United States and Asia - a tactic observed for the first time since the group began its operations. (..)

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

China-linked threat actor tracked as CactusPete was employing an updated backdoor in recent attacks targeting military and financial organizations in Eastern Europe. If we recall that CactusPete targets military, diplomatic and infrastructure organizations, the information could be very sensitive indeed,” Kaspersky continues.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

military and other agencies for a decade and passing the gear off as American made. Prosecutors Allege Firm Sold Chinese Surveillance Tech That Contained Vulnerabilities Federal prosecutors have charged a Long Island company, along with seven of its employees, with selling vulnerability-laden Chinese technology to the U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on Russian military intelligence officers for 2015 Bundestag hack. The 85th Main Centre for Special Services (GTsSS) is the military unit of the Russian government also tracked as APT28 (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2020

Hackers have stolen confidential documents from the US military contractor Westech, which provides critical support for US Minuteman III nuclear deterrent. The post Maze ransomware operators stole data from US military contractor Westech appeared first on Security Affairs. The LGM-30 Minuteman is a U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2021

China-linked APT Naikon employed a new backdoor in multiple cyber-espionage operations targeting military organizations from Southeast Asia in the last 2 years. The Naikon APT group mainly focuses on high-profile orgs, including government entities and military orgs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The United States Department of Justice charged 4 Chinese military hackers with hacking into credit reporting agency Equifax. The United States Department of Justice officially charged 4 members of the China’s PLA’s 54th Research Institute, a division of the Chinese military, with hacking into credit reporting agency Equifax.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Network data collected by the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media as Idlib military crisis escalates. in #Turkey where social media have been blocked for six hours after a military incident in #Idlib , Syria. Partial restrictions have also affected YouTube and WhatsApp at the same time.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

A new piece of the Ryuk malware has been improved to steal confidential files related to the military, government, financial statements, and banking. Targeted keywords in the new variant of the Ryuk stealer confirm that attackers are looking for confidential information in military, banking, finance and law enforcement. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The post Ukraine: Military defense agencies and banks hit by cyberattacks appeared first on Security Affairs. While the website of the Oschadbank bank initially remained accessible, the customers were not able to access their online banking accounts. At the time of this writing, the website of the financial institution is not reachable.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The Ukrainian military intelligence warns that Russia is planning to escalate cyberattacks targeting Ukraine and Western allies. According to the Ukrainian military intelligence service, the attacks will aim at disrupting operations at critical infrastructure, including electric grids and facilities of the energy industry.

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IG Guru

JUNE 25, 2021

The post NATO Warns it Will Consider a Military Response to Cyber-Attacks via Information Security Magazine appeared first on IG GURU. Check out the article here.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2019

Since these leaks have revealed that the US can hack into almost anything, the Chinese government's plan is to adopt a "security by obscurity" approach and run a custom operating system that will make it harder for foreign threat actors -- mainly the US -- to spy on Chinese military operations. Or it could be something completely new.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

“[offensive cyber capability could] degrade, disrupt and even destroy critical capabilities and infrastructure of those who would do us harm, ranging from strategic to tactical targets” both in isolation or alongside traditional military force.” ” Sanders confirmed. . ” Sanders confirmed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2020

The media reported a fire at the Natanz nuclear enrichment site and an explosion at the Parchin military complex near Tehran, the latter is suspected to be a government center for the production of missiles. But ”the crossing of red lines of the Islamic Republic of Iran by hostile countries, especially the Zionist regime and the U.S.,

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Data Breach Today

JULY 4, 2022

DTEK Group Alleges Russian Hackers/Military Behind Hybrid Attacks Ukrainian private energy firm DTEK group alleges that the Russian federation has carried out a cyberattack against its facilities, crippling its infrastructure in retaliation for its owners' support of the country in its war against Russian invaders.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The NATO military command center should be fully operational in 2023, every member states will contribute with its cyber capabilities to the military hub. NATO alliance is aware of growing threats in the cyberspace and the new NATO military command center aims to respond them. 31 at its military hub in Belgium.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2019

The governments of Germany and The Netherlands agreed to build the first-ever joint military Internet, so-called TEN (Tactical Edge Networking). Government officials from Germany and the Netherlands signed an agreement for the building of the first-ever joint military Internet, so-called TEN (Tactical Edge Networking).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2019

Security experts from ESET uncovered a cyber-espionage group tracked as Machete that stole sensitive files from the Venezuelan military. Security experts from ESET reported that a cyberespionage group tracked as Machete has stolen sensitive files from the Venezuelan military. ” reads the analysis from ESET.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2019

The Russian military is in the process of replacing the Windows system with the Linux distribution Astra Linux. The post Russian military plans to replace Windows with Astra Linux appeared first on Security Affairs. It provides data protectionup to the level of “top secret” in Russian classified information grade.”

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Unwritten Record

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It marks the end of fighting in World War I, the war that was supposed to end all wars, and honors our nation’s military veterans. Here at the Unwritten Record, we share a lot of records related to military history and those who have served in the military. Celebrate Nurses Week with the Military Nurse.

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Unwritten Record

MAY 11, 2021

The nurse has a long history of serving the United States military. World War II presented a need for nurses and the military and American Red Cross initiated an intense recruitment and training program, resulting in nearly 74,00 women serving as nurses. Florence A. This resulted in a greater need for trauma and critical care nurses.

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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. reads the post published by Proofpoint.

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Unwritten Record

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The oldest known government-produced film in our holdings is First Army Aeroplane Flight, Fort Myer, Virginia , which captured daring test flights of the Wright Military Flyer. However, the date of the footage has been murky for nearly a century, with some sources placing it in 1908 and many more identifying it as 1909. At that time, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Security researchers at ESET recently uncovered a campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe. The SMInit exploit chain exploits a vulnerability in the legitimate Total Video Player software.

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