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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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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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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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

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

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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This year, 750 cyber specialists have participated in the military cyberwarfare exercise. ” reads the press release published by the UK Ministry of Defence. ” Britain’s 7 Military Intelligence team, who competed remotely from Italy, won the exercise, followed by te Tallinn-based 5 Military Intelligence.

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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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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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Dark Reading

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Paul Nakasoke, head of US Cyber Command and director of the NSA, said the military has taken offensive action against ransomware groups.

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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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Dark Reading

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Startup founders say serving in the military taught them how to defend against cyberattacks and how to build teams. These lessons are serving them well as they run their own companies.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 13, 2023

European Embassies and Diplomats at Most Risk, Warns Polish CERT A Russian hacking campaign is targeting European embassies and diplomats as part of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing Western government intelligence on the war in Ukraine, according to a joint alert by the Polish CERT and Military Counterintelligence Service.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The post Ukraine: Belarusian APT group UNC1151 targets military personnel with spear phishing appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SIM swapping).

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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

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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Data Breach Today

APRIL 10, 2023

Leaks Likely as Significant as Snowden Files, Vault 7, Shadow Brokers, Expert Says The Biden administration is probing how highly classified military and intelligence documents detailing national security secrets came to be leaked via Discord servers and social media.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2019

military and other government personnel, according to a new report from two independent security researchers.

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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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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

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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Data Breach Today

MAY 9, 2018

Watchdog Agency: Problems Put Patient Data at Risk Some military health facilities haven't consistently implemented security controls, putting patient data at risk, according to a new watchdog agency report. But security experts say the weaknesses are quite common at civilian health facilities as well.

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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 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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Data Breach Today

APRIL 3, 2023

Firm Has Major Public Sector Contracts, Including With Britain's NHS and Military British outsourcing service provider Capita, which has major U.K. healthcare and military contracts, said an online attack disrupted internal access to Microsoft Office 365 applications, leading to service outages for multiple customers.

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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. ”added Netblocks. It's 5:30 a.m. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. The SSU said the campaign is linked to Russian intelligence agencies that are spreading disinformation through social networks and other media. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 27, 2022

6 Russian Military Intelligence Agents Charged With Launching NotPetya Destruction The U.S. government on Tuesday announced a reward of up to $10 million for information pertaining to six alleged Russian military hackers tied to the 2017 NotPetya destructive malware campaign.

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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

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. “Tehran’s reaction so far shows Iranian officials are increasingly taking the possibility seriously.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Threatpost

JUNE 17, 2020

A recent malware campaign targeted victims at European and Middle East aerospace and military companies - via LinkedIn spear-phishing messages.

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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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