Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The group operates out of military unity 26165 of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS). The Government experts pointed out that in some cases the group did not deployed any backdoor in the compromised systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 uses fake NATO training documents as bait in attacks aimed at government bodies. The Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 is behind a string of attacks that targeting government bodies with Zebrocy Delphi malware. ” reads the report published QuoIntelligence.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information) warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group has been targeting multiple French organizations, including government entities, businesses, universities, and research institutes and think tanks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Shane Huntley, the head of the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), wrote on Twitter that his group had sent an above-average batch of government-backed security warnings. . TAG sent a above average batch of government-backed security warnings yesterday. So why do we do these government warnings then? ” Huntley added. “At

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The cyberespionage group continues to target members of defense companies, embassies, governments, and the military.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2022

Non-state actors include multinational corporations, collectives of hacktivists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), cybercrime syndicates, private military organizations, media outlets, terrorist groups, labor unions, organized ethnic groups, lobby groups, criminal organizations, private businesses, and others.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. Zebrocy is mainly used against governments and commercial organizations engaged in foreign affairs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. According to CERT-UA, this campaign targeted more than 40 Ukrainian organizations, including government entities.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” Mandiant concludes.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Garda and military intelligence agencies believe the Russian agents were sent by the military intelligence branch of the Russian armed forces, the GRU. Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. Source [link].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The data were provided by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which tracks government-backed hacking campaign, which warns of a significant increase in the number of the alert compared to the previous year. Google announced to have sent roughly 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or hacking attempts to customers during 2021.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

CERT-UA warns of a spear-phishing campaign conducted by APT28 group targeting Ukrainian government bodies with fake ‘Windows Update’ guides. Russia-linked APT28 group is targeting Ukrainian government bodies with fake ‘Windows Update’ guides, Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The STRONTIUM APT group (aka APT28 , Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , and Sednit ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. Emerging in 2007 as a banking trojan, QakBot (a.k.a. government has used court orders to remotely disinfect systems compromised with malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations. ” reported the FT. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

Earlier versions of Agent.BTZ were used to compromise US military networks in the Middle East in 2008. Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new version of the ComRAT backdoor, also known as Agent.BTZ , which is a malware that was employed in past campaigns attributed to the Turla APT group.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Fancy Bear APT group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. In the recent attacks, the hackers used a new set of malicious payloads, including a backdoor written in a new language. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

In 2004, CIA and Mossad requested help to the the Dutch intelligence to get access to the plant, only in 2007 the mole, who posed as a mechanic working for a front company doing work at Natanz, dropped the virus into the target systems. “[T ” wrote the journalists. The Olympic Games operation was carried out by a joint U.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2018

Co-founder Jay took a business trip to South Korea in the fall of 2007. DataLocker honed its patented approach to manufacturing encrypted portable drives and landed some key military and government clients early on; the company has continued branching out ever since. LW: Makes sense. and are TAA compliant.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. government institutions, and about 250 Ukrainian victims. ” reads the joint advisory.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Security researchers from ESET have discovered a new piece of a sophisticated malware used by the Russia-linked Sednit group (aka Fancy Bear , APT28 , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , and STRONTIUM ) in targeted attacks aimed at government entities in the Balkans as well as in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The Sofacy APT group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks discovered that the Russian-linked Sofacy APT has written a new version of their Zebrocy backdoor using the Go programming language.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Our military systems are vulnerable. We need to face that reality by halting the purchase of insecure weapons and support systems and by incorporating the realities of offensive cyberattacks into our military planning. Over the past decade, militaries have established cyber commands and developed cyberwar doctrine.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2018

The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. This malware immediately caught the attention of the expert because it contacts a C2 with the name “ marina-info.net ” a clear reference to the Italian Military corp, Marina Militare.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage APT group (also known as Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON) that has been active since at least 2007 targeting government organizations and private businesses. The new analysis revealed a list of high-profile victims that was previously unknown.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2007, Salomon collected more than $3,000 from botmasters affiliated with competing spam affiliate programs that wanted to see Spamhaus suffer, and the money was used to fund a week-long distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Spamhaus and its online infrastructure. federal court tomorrow (Jan. 9, 2024).

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Unwritten Record

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

“Falmouth Neck as it was When Destroyed by Mowatt, October 18th, 1775” RG 77: Fortifications Map File Plans of Military Forts, 1818-1941. Government Printing Office, 1966), 371-372. (2) All maps provide us with some level of information, but some maps, like the one pictured below, tell us a story. . NAID 221021240.

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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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Archives Blogs

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The prisoners represented a majority of Poland’s governing elite—military, police, and civil society leaders captured in 1939, when the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany invaded and divided Poland by secret diplomatic agreement.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Back in 2007 the California Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, did the unthinkable: she decertified all the digital voting systems in the state. Vamosi: Secretary Bowen is addressing an oft asked question: If elections are so critical, why don’t state governments simply invest in a full-blown digital voting system?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Vamosi: Back in 2007 the California Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, did the unthinkable: she decertified all the digital voting systems in the state. Vamosi: Secretary Bowen is addressing an oft asked question: If elections are so critical, why don’t state governments simply invest in a full-blown digital voting system?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

“The CRTC executed a warrant under Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) and the RCMP National Division executed a search warrant under the Criminal Code respectively,” reads a statement published last week by the Canadian government. I tend to have a violent nature, and have both Martial arts and Military training. In 2014, the U.S.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Vamosi: Back in 2007 the California Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, did the unthinkable: she decertified all the digital voting systems in the state. Vamosi: Secretary Bowen is addressing an oft asked question: If elections are so critical, why don’t state governments simply invest in a full-blown digital voting system?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The Sofacy APT group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Centre for Defence: In 2007, a struggle over a divisive Soviet statutes set the standard for a new form of Russian interference in the affairs of foreign states. BBC: Well as Ukrainian military battles Russian troops on the ground there's another battle taking place. This is just on a larger level. Here's the BBC.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2024

CERT Polska warns of a large-scale malware campaign against Polish government institutions conducted by Russia-linked APT28. CERT Polska and CSIRT MON teams issued a warning about a large-scale malware campaign targeting Polish government institutions, allegedly orchestrated by the Russia-linked APT28 group. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Britain and the United governments blame Russia for being behind a destructive cyber attack that hit Georgia during 2019. The governments of Britain and the US declared that Russia’s military intelligence service GRU is behind the massive cyber attack that hit Georgia during 2019. ” said the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

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