Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a Zimbra flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-27926 , to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The goal of this activity is assessed to be gaining access to the emails of military, government, and diplomatic organizations across Europe involved in the Russia Ukrainian War.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. It’s Testing U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has started a campaign to increase awareness of these risks to U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

Experts uncovered a new cyber-espionage campaign, dubbed “ Operation In(ter)receptio n,” aimed at aerospace and military organizations in Europe and the Middle East. ” The attackers used password-protected RAR archive files as decoys purported to include a PDF document with details on the salary for specific job positions.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Provides certain exemptions from public disclosure for materials provided to the state in response to an investigation of a breach of security. 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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The SolarWinds security breach was not isolated, Russia-linked Nobelium APT group has targeted140 managed service providers (MSPs) and cloud service providers and successfully breached 14 of them since May 2021. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security). ” states Microsoft. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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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. All the user needs is a strong password to access to the data.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2020

military’s Cyber Command. Cyber Command , a branch of the Department of Defense headed by the director of the National Security Agency (NSA). ” Alex Holden , chief information security officer and president of Milwaukee-based Hold Security , has been monitoring Trickbot activity before and after the 10-day operation. .”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Researcher Sylvain Pelissier has discovered that the DataVault encryption software made by ENC Security and used by multiple vendors is affected by a couple of key derivation function issues. An attacker can exploit the flaws to obtain user passwords. ” reads the security advisory published by ENC. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In this Spotlight* podcast, Yaser Masoudnia of LogMeIn and LastPass talks about the continued persistence of the password in enterprise IT environments and how its inevitable demise (and replacement) may be closer than you would think. The post Spotlight Podcast: The Demise of the Password may be closer than you think!

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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 group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” reads trhe announcement published by DKWOC.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a post to its Twitter/X account last month, Signum Capital warned that a fake profile pretending to be their employee Mr. Unfortunately for us, Doug freaked out after deciding he’d been tricked — backing up his important documents, changing his passwords, and then reinstalling macOS on his computer.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), US Cyber Command, and international partners released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn that Russia-linked threat actors are using compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters (EdgeRouters) to evade detection in cyber operations worldwide.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

According to recent figures from the managed security firm Reliaquest , QakBot is by far the most prevalent malware “loader” — malicious software used to secure access to a hacked network and help drop additional malware payloads. ” The DOJ said it also recovered more than 6.5

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. FBI recommends using passphrases instead of complex passwords. European Commission has chosen the Signal app to secure its communications. Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram blocked in Turkey as Idlib military crisis escalates. Hunting the coronavirus in the dark web.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2022

The attackers said that the stolen data includes information about the employees of the company involved in military projects, commercial activities, contract agreements and correspondence with other companies. The post Threat actor claims to have hacked European manufacturer of missiles MBDA appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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. But that's probably a mistake in the long run.

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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

JULY 20, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published an advisory to warn of multiple security vulnerabilities in MiCODUS MV720 Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers which are used by over 1.5 There is no mandatory rule to change the password nor is there any claiming process. million vehicles.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2022

A SaaS security company says a spike in cyber attacks from Russia and China in recent weeks suggests the two countries may be coordinating their cyber efforts. reported that hackers – some linked to Russian GRU military intelligence – breached computers at nearly two dozen U.S. SaaS Apps Under Attack.

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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. The site also hosts password dumps allegedly stolen from the Russian company. Access to 112 Emergency Service.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ukraine’s premier law enforcement and counterintelligence disclosed the real identities of five alleged members of the Russia-linked APT group Gamaredon (aka Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) that are suspected to be components of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). ” concludes the announcement.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2020

“We disrupted Trickbot through a court order we obtained as well as technical action we executed in partnership with telecommunications providers around the world,” wrote Tom Burt , corporate vice president of customer security and trust at Microsoft, in a blog post this morning about the legal maneuver. Image: Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The threat actors set up websites cloning the official download websites for SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), KeePass password manager, and PDF Reader Pro. The attacks were spotted while analyzing network artifacts associated with RomComRAT infections resulting from attacks targeting Ukrainian military institutions.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

drone attack that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani. Despite assurances to the contrary, it’s a fair assumption there is more to come, according to national security experts. Despite assurances to the contrary, it’s a fair assumption there is more to come, according to national security experts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

. “ Curious Gorge, a group TAG attributes to China’s PLA SSF, has remained active against government, military, logistics and manufacturing organizations in Ukraine, Russia and Central Asia. ” wrote Google TAG Security Engineer Billy Leonard. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2023

Threat actors created fake login pages for each organization and sent spear-phishing messages to nuclear scientists in an attempt to trick them into providing their passwords. The researchers uncovered a phishing campaign conducted by the COLDRIVER (aka Calisto ) APT against a NATO Centre of Excellence and Eastern European militaries.

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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

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. and foreign organizations using brute force access to penetrate government and private sector victim networks.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Threat actors are spreading password-stealing malware disguised as a security tool to target Ukraine’s IT Army. March 12 – Russian Internet watchdog Roskomnadzor is going to ban Instagram.

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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 post SessionManager Backdoor employed in attacks on Microsoft IIS servers worldwide appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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