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US will help Baltic states to secure baltic energy grid

Security Affairs

The three states joined both the European Union and NATO in 2004, but they are still part of a power grid controlled by Russia. Suspected Russia-backed hackers have launched exploratory cyber attacks against the energy networks of the Baltic states, sources said, raising security concerns inside the West’s main military alliance, NATO.”

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Turla APT group used a new backdoor in attacks against Afghanistan, Germany and the US

Security Affairs

The attacks against entities in Afghanistan took place prior to the Taliban’s recent takeover of the government in the country and the withdrawal of all military forces of the United States and its allies. The post Turla APT group used a new backdoor in attacks against Afghanistan, Germany and the US appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities. It states that the yearbook for the Amtek class of 2004 is hosted at 41.wmpay[.]com. ru: Andrey Skvortsov.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

A report from the security firm Team Cymru found the DDoS attack infrastructure used in NoName campaigns is assigned to two interlinked hosting providers: MIRhosting and Stark Industries. MIRhosting is a hosting provider founded in The Netherlands in 2004. The NoName DDoS group advertising on Telegram. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

One of the most single-minded of these security vendors is startup CyCognito. The company was launched in Tel Aviv in 2017 by a couple of former Israeli military cyber ops attack specialists, Rob Gurzeev and Dima Potekhin. I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004.

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Kaspersky

InfoGovNuggets

Questions as to the Kaspersky antivirus software company were raised by military intelligence in 2004, well before the 2013 threat assessment issued Pentagon-wide. “Russian Firm Was Long Seen as Threat,” The Wall Street Journal , November 18, 2017 A2. Who dropped the ball? Did the Russians have an inside track?

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Mayhem Moves To Production With The Department Of Defense

ForAllSecure

The national security agency. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? There is something very special about securing a physical object -- something you can point to and touch. It’s not commonplace to have the opportunity to secure something that flies at Mach 2!