Data Breach Today

JUNE 6, 2024

CERT-UA Says Threat Actor 'Vermin' Used Syncthing Application Ukrainian cyber defenders say Russian intelligence hackers operating from the occupied Donbas city of Luhansk targeted military email inboxes with an info stealer.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Defense Minister Pistorius Says Leak Caused by Webex 'Application Error' German Minister of Defense Boris Pistorius on Tuesday said the recent leak of intercepted military data was the result of an "application error" and not caused by a system compromise by Russian hackers.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 13, 2023

Jack Teixeira, 21, Accused of Sharing Classified National Defense Info on Discord A member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard has been arrested for leaking highly classified military and intelligence documents.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 21, 2020

Kaspersky: 'Transparent Tribe' Using Trojan That Now Targets Removable Devices "Transparent Tribe," a hacking group that targets military and diplomatic organizations, has updated its Crimson remote access Trojan to enable the malware to steal data from removable devices and then use these devices to spread to other systems, according to new research (..)

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 29, 2024

The US military wants to team up with the private sector to protect assets everyone relies on. As more and more infrastructure is deployed in space, the risk of cyber attacks increases.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 23, 2020

Cisco Talos Researchers Find Hackers Using New Dropper Called IndigoDrop A spear-phishing campaign is using military-themed malicious Microsoft Office documents to infect devices, according to researchers at Cisco Talos.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A phishing campaign targets Ukrainian military entities using drone manuals as lures to deliver the post-exploitation toolkit Merlin. The campaign, codenamed STARK#VORTEX by Securonix, targets Ukrainian military entities and CERT-UA attributed it to a threat actor tracked as UAC-0154. ” concludes the report.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Washington Post has the story : The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on—plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current and former U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Ukrainian government’s military intelligence service announced the hack of the Russian Federal Taxation Service (FNS). The military intelligence service said that the hack was the result of a successful special operation on the territory of Russia. “As a result of the cyber attack, all servers received malware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Russia-linked threat actors have been targeting Android devices of the Ukrainian military with a new malware dubbed Infamous Chisel. “The information exfiltrated is a combination of system device information, commercial application information and applications specific to the Ukrainian military. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2023

Army’s Criminal Investigation Division warns that US military personnel have reported receiving unsolicited smartwatches in the mail. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division reported that service members across the military received smartwatches unsolicited in the mail. ” reads the alert.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 4, 2020

Defense Department Says No Data Was Compromised Australia reportedly took a sensitive military recruiting database offline for 10 days in February following concerns it may have been compromised. The Defense Department says there's no evidence data was stolen.

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Securonix is tracking a phishing campaign that’s targeting the Ukrainian military with malware-laden attachments posing as drone instruction manuals. The threat actor is using Microsoft help files (.chm) chm) to deliver the malware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2023

South Korea military exercise. The military drill, the Ulchi Freedom Guardian summer exercises , will start on Monday, August 21, 2023 , and will last 11 days. The military exercises aim at improving the ability of the two armies to respond to North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats. .

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Ukraine’s CERT-UA revealed the national Delta military intelligence program has been targeted with a malware-based attack. ” states the Ukrainian military. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Delta military intelligence). ” The Ukrainian authorities attribute the attack to the threat actor tracked as UAC-0142.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked HENSOLDT France, a company specializing in military and defense electronics. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. The post Snatch group claims to have hacked military provider HENSOLDT France appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The nation-state actors are known to carry out cyber-espionage against targeting government, military, and national infrastructure entities in Europe and Central Asia since at least December 2020. “TAG70 has demonstrated a high level of sophistication in its attack methods.

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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.

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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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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2022

People are leaking classified military information on discussion boards for the video game War Thunder to win arguments — repeatedly.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 22, 2022

Researchers at Zscaler warn that a spear phishing campaign is targeting the US military and other sectors with phishing emails that purport to be voicemail notifications. The emails contain links to a phishing page designed to harvest Microsoft Office 365 credentials.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2023

military procurement system. military procurement system and was spotted targeting Taiwan-based organizations The choice of the new targets in the latest campaign suggests a strategic interest of the People’s Republic of China according to the 2023 ODNI threat assessment. military server used for contract proposals and submissions.

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IG Guru

MAY 2, 2024

The post iPhone isn’t secureable enough for the South Korea military – but Android is via Apple Insider first appeared on IG GURU. Check out the article here.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2024

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps told House of Commons that the impacted system is not connected to the main military HR system. The Ministry of Defence revealed that a malign actor gained access to part of the Armed Forces payment network, which is an external system completely separate to MOD’s core network.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2022

Anonymous continues to support Ukraine against the Russian criminal invasion targeting the Russian military and propaganda. Anonymous leaked personal details of the Russian military stationed in Bucha where the Russian military carried out a massacre of civilians that are accused of having raped and shot local women and children.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 26, 2024

The European Commission is allocating €7.3 billion for defense research over the next seven years. From drones and tanks of the future to battleships and space intelligence, here's what it funds.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 27, 2023

Russia’s APT28 (also known as “Fancy Bear” or “BlueDelta”) is using spear phishing to compromise Ukrainian government and military entities, according to researchers at Recorded Future. The phishing emails are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in the open-source webmail software Roundcube.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

The IT giant pointed out that Cadet Blizzard is distinct from other known APT groups operating under the control of the Russian military intelligence GRU, such as Forest Blizzard ( STRONTIUM ) and Seashell Blizzard (IRIDIUM). Unlike other Russia-linked APT group, CadetBlizzard operations are extremely disruptive.

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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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Data Breach Today

JUNE 27, 2024

government charged Russian civilian Amin Stigal with assisting Moscow's GRU military intelligence unit in its use of WhisperGate malware against Ukraine beginning in the weeks leading up to Moscow's all-out invasion, as well as probing America's critical infrastructure.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A report from the firm Recorded Future finds that billions in gains from cryptocurrency heists fund close to half of North Korea's military budget. The post BitCoins To Bombs: North Korea Funds Military With Billions In Stolen Cryptocurrency first appeared on The Security Ledger with Paul F.

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KnowBe4

JULY 7, 2023

From the “shaking our heads” files comes the story of how threat actors compromised military personnel mobile devices, credentials, accounts and more.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 24, 2024

Hackers Part of Callisto and Armageddon Groups The European Union sanctioned four Russian domestic intelligence agency hackers including two military officers who participated in what researchers have described as "hack and leak" operations.

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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

MAY 4, 2021

Could Cyberespionage Be Campaign's Real Purpose? Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind a ransomware campaign that used a contracting company called "Emen Net Pasargard" to target more than a dozen organizations, according to the security firm Flashpoint. But could cyberespionage be the campaign's true mission?

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 13, 2022

Russian Foreign Ministry Says Aggressive Actions in Cyberspace Won’t Go Unanswered Top Russian diplomat Andrei Krutskikh is pressuring the U.S. to back down in cyberspace after the director of U.S. Cyber Command, Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, acknowledged America has conducted a "full spectrum" of virtual operations in support of Ukraine.

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