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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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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KnowBe4

MARCH 19, 2024

Researchers at IBM X-Force are monitoring several ongoing phishing campaigns by the Russian state-sponsored threat actor ITG05 (also known as “APT28” or “Fancy Bear”). APT28 has been tied to Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 31, 2022

Actors From China, Iran, North Korea and Russia Using Ukraine War-Related Themes Researchers have observed a growing number of threat actors using the Russia-Ukraine war as a lure in phishing and malware campaigns to target the military of multiple Eastern European countries, as well as a NATO Center of Excellence, according to Google's Threat Analysis (..)

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 27, 2021

Meanwhile, Breaches Involving Military Secrets and CCTV Footage Beset UK Government Phishing, ransomware and unauthorized access remain the leading causes of personal data breaches as well as violations of data protection rules, Britain's privacy watchdog reports.

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Russian state-sponsored threat actor “COLDRIVER” is launching phishing campaigns against “high profile individuals in NGOs, former intelligence and military officers, and NATO governments,” according to researchers at Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Hackers Used LLMs to Perform Tasks That Non-AI Tools Can Perform Nation-state hackers including Russian military intelligence and hackers backed by China have used OpenAI large language models for research and to craft phishing emails, the artificial intelligence company disclosed Tuesday in conjunction with major financial backer Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The CERT of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of a spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian armed forces personnel. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting private email accounts belonging to Ukrainian armed forces personnel. ua-passport[.]space space and id[.]bigmir[.]space.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 26, 2023

Spike in Late 2022 Occurred as Experts Were Tracking 'Reduced Tempo' in Conflict While Russian military forces and allied groups continue to pummel Ukrainian targets with online attacks, security experts tracked a phishing and malware surge at the end of 2022, even as U.S. intelligence said the war was running at a "reduced tempo."

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Data Breach Today

JULY 29, 2023

military job recruitment documents to lure Korean-speaking victims into downloading malware staged from legitimate but compromised South Korean websites, according to security researchers. Researchers Say APT37 Group Likely Behind Campaign Targeting South Koreans Government-backed North Korean hackers are posting convincing U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2023

North Korea-linked APT Kimsuky launched a spear-phishing campaign targeting US contractors working at the war simulation centre. North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky carried out a spear-phishing campaign against US contractors involved in a joint U.S.-South South Korea military exercise. ” reported Reuters agency.

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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. The spear phishing messages were sent from a compromised e-mail address belonging to an employee of the Ministry of Defense, as well as messengers. ” states the Ukrainian military. .

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IT Governance

MARCH 8, 2022

Welcome to our March 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over their personal information. This month, we look at a phishing attack targeting Ukrainian citizens, the latest campaign imitating Tesco and a warning from HSBC.

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 17, 2023

Researchers at Group-IB are tracking a previously unknown threat actor dubbed “Dark Pink” that’s using spear phishing attacks to target government, military, and religious organizations. Most of the attacks were focused on countries in Southeast Asia, though one of them targeted an entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 2, 2022

The India-aligned APT SideWinder is using a variety of social engineering techniques to target Pakistani government and military entities, according to researchers at Group-IB. The threat actor is using phishing emails as well as a malicious VPN app placed in the Google Play Store.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 21, 2022

Cyberecurity Firm Mandiant Analyzes Phishing Campaigns with ties to Belarus and Russia U.S. military, published a detailed analysis of phishing campaigns with links to Belarus and Russia. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant, which has ties to the U.S.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 13, 2023

Affinity phishing scams are ones in which criminals cultivate trust in their prospective victims by trading on common background, either real or feigned. What follows all too often one can readily imagine. 

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Data Breach Today

JULY 23, 2018

Russians Tied to Hack Attacks, But 'Two-Factor' No Silver Bullet, Google Warns Spear phishing attacks are in the news again following the Justice Department's indictment of Russian military intelligence officers for alleged attacks against U.S. Here's how to play better phishing defense.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A sophisticated cyber-espionage attack against high-value targets attending a maritime technology conference in Pakistan this weekend has been in the works since last year.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 14, 2023

Pakistan-Linked APT Group Using Spear-Phishing to Plant Info Stealer Malware A suspected Pakistan espionage threat actor that relies on phishing emails is expanding to the education sector after years of focusing on the Indian military and government.

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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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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Wipers and Phishing Attacks Rose Steeply in 2022 Russian military intelligence agency hackers walloped Ukraine with waves of data wipers and phishing attacks, but the torrent of destructive cyberattacks doesn't appear to have been as effective as previous Russian cyberattacks, report researchers from the Google Threat Analysis Group and Mandiant.

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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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Data Breach Today

MARCH 23, 2023

SideCopy APT Used Decoy Documents in Spear-Phishing Attack On DRDO Security researchers uncovered a Pakistani cyberespionage group employing fresh tactics to target workers at India's Defence Research and Development Organization and steal sensitive military secrets.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Wipers and Phishing Attacks Rose Steeply in 2022 Russian military intelligence agency hackers walloped Ukraine with waves of data wipers and phishing attacks but the wave of destructive cyberattacks doesn't appear to have been as impactful as previous Russian cyberattacks, report researchers from the Google Threat Analysis Group and Mandiant.

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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

MARCH 2, 2022

A spear-phishing campaign, tracked as Asylum Ambuscade, targets European government personnel aiding Ukrainian refugees. The phishing messages included a weaponized attachment designed to download a Lua-based malware dubbed SunSeed. net) that appears to belong to a compromised Ukranian armed service member.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

Ukraine CERT-UA warns of phishing attacks on state organizations of Ukraine using the topic “Azovstal” and Cobalt Strike Beacon. The post Phishing attacks using the topic “Azovstal” targets entities in Ukraine appeared first on Security Affairs. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Threatpost

JUNE 16, 2022

Analysts have uncovered an Iran-linked APT sending malicious emails to top Israeli government officials.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. The phishing campaign detected by MSTIC leveraged the Google Firebase platform to provide an ISO file containing the malicious code.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Monica Witt Allegedly Aided Spear-Phishing Attacks Against US Military A former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence agent was indicted for disclosing classified information and helping Iran compromise the computers of other U.S. intelligence agents. The case marks another damaging leak for the American government.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2022

As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Convincing email-credentials phishing, emailed backdoors and mobile apps are all part of the groups latest effort against military and government targets.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #13 | March 28th, 2023 [Eye Opener] How to Outsmart Sneaky AI-Based Phishing Attacks Users need to adapt to an evolving threat landscape in which attackers can use AI tools like ChatGPT to craft extremely convincing phishing emails, according to Matthew Tyson at CSO. "A We must ask: 'Is the email expected?

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2022

The Google TAG uses uncovered phishing attacks targeting Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine. The researchers uncovered a phishing campaign conducted by a Russia-linked threat actor tracked as COLDRIVER (aka Calisto ) against a NATO Centre of Excellence and Eastern European militaries.

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Threatpost

MARCH 3, 2022

A military email address was used to distribute malicious email macros among EU personnel helping Ukrainians.

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