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North Korea-linked APT group BeagleBoyz targets banks

Security Affairs

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Government refers to this team as BeagleBoyz, who represent a subset of HIDDEN COBRA activity.” ” reads the alert.

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Belgium telecom operators Proximus and Orange drop Huawei

Security Affairs

Orange Belgium is using Huawei equipment since 2007 for its mobile network in Belgium and Luxembourg, while the collaboration between Proximus and the Shenzhen-based company started in 2009 for the progressive upgrading of its network. There’s also a growing concern about Huawei’s capacity to produce its equipment,” the source added.

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Russia-linked APT8 exploited Outlook zero-day to target European NATO members

Security Affairs

Over the past 20 months, the group targeted at least 30 organizations within 14 nations that are probably of strategic intelligence significance to the Russian government and its military. The Government experts pointed out that in some cases the group did not deployed any backdoor in the compromised systems.

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Google warns of APT28 attack attempts against 14,000 Gmail users

Security Affairs

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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Russia-linked APT28 group spotted exploiting Outlook flaw to hijack MS Exchange accounts

Security Affairs

In recent attacks spotted by Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence, the nation-state actors primarily targeted government, energy, transportation, and non-governmental organizations in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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France agency ANSSI warns of Russia-linked APT28 attacks on French entities

Security Affairs

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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ActiveX Controls in South Korean websites are affected by critical flaws

Security Affairs

Security researchers at Risk Based Security have discovered tens of critical vulnerabilities in 10 South Korean ActiveX controls as part of a research project. The experts discovered that many South Korean websites still use ActiveX controls, including many government sites, despite the risks associated with the use of this technology.

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