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Chinese actors behind attacks on industrial enterprises and public institutions

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China-linked threat actors targeted dozens of industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and Europe. In January 2022, researchers at Kaspersky ICS CERT uncovered a series of targeted attacks on military industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and East Europe.

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Domestic Kitten has been conducting surveillance targeting over 1,000 individuals

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At the time of this writing, researchers uncovered at least four active campaigns targeting individuals across the world, most of them in Iran, the US, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. .” According to a new report published by the Check Point research team, the group has been conducting widespread surveillance for the past four years.

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The global impact of the Fortinet 50.000 VPN leak posted online

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After a nslookup on all IPs, I found that among the victims there are some Banks, many.gov domains and thousands of companies around the world. The compilation contains 49,577 IP addresses vulnerable to Fortinet SSL VPN CVE-2018-13379 , according to Bank Security, who first noticed the leak on Twitter. Geomap of impacted countries.

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Iran-Linked Seedworm APT target orgs in the Middle East

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Experts pointed out that the primary objectives of previous MuddyWater campaigns were espionage and cyber espionage, but in the latest campaign, tracked as ‘Operation Quicksand’ threat actors used for the first time the destructive malware in attacks on prominent organizations in Israel and in other countries around the world.

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Facebook dismantled a vast manipulation campaign tied to Iran

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“The world’s biggest social network said it removed 783 pages, groups and accounts “for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior tied to Iran. Facebook took down hundreds of fake accounts from Iran that were involved in a vast manipulation campaign active in more than 20 countries. ” wrote Nathaniel Gleicher.

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US DoJ’s superseding indictment charges Assange with violating Espionage Act

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State Department diplomats around the world. “continues the DoJ, ” These human sources included local Afghans and Iraqis, journalists, religious leaders, human rights advocates, and political dissidents from repressive regimes.

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Rushing to document and save: The War in Ukraine 2022 web archive

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World War II caused unprecedented loss of life and property. The excesses of Stalinism suppressed cultural diversity. We’ve come a long way since. Technologies have evolved and increased our interconnectedness, which makes the scale of loss this time both unimaginable and tragically real.