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China-linked APT10 leverages ZeroLogon exploits in recent attacks

Security Affairs

The group, also known as Cicada, Stone Panda , and Cloud Hopper , has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Operation In(ter)reception targets Military and Aerospace employees in Europe and the Middle East

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. “a password-protected RAR archive containing a LNK file.

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Ten years ago someone breached into a server of the Yale University

Security Affairs

After ten years, Yale University revealed a security breach that exposed an archive containing personal information of 119,000 people. Hackers breached into the database of the famous University between April 2008 and January 2009 and apparently accessed a server where it is hosted a single database.

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NASA hacked! An unauthorized Raspberry Pi connected to its network was the entry point

Security Affairs

The archive was incomplete and inaccurate, the Raspberry Pi used to penetrate the NASA network had not been listed in the ITSDB. Unfortunately, this was not the first time hackers broke into JPL , it has already happened back in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2017. Investigators also found problems in patch management procedures.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , Megatraffer has been active on more than a half-dozen crime forums from September 2009 to the present day. In November 2009, Fitis wrote, “I am the perfect criminal. The exposed files in the archived version of fitis[.]ru WHO IS MEGATRAFFER? account on Carder[.]su

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The Platinum APT group adds the Titanium backdoor to its arsenal

Security Affairs

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. The backdoor deploys an SFX archive containing a Windows task installation script. ” reads the analysis publisjed by Kaspersky.

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GE's Enterprise Collaboration Backbone | ZDNet

Collaboration 2.0

Windows 7 Microsofts Windows 7 arrived in late 2009 and kicked off a PC upgrade cycle thats expected to. Google unplugs Windows Google decides that a security invasion from China was the last straw and bans the use of. Hot Topics iPhone iPad Enterprise 2.0 Microsoft Office Green tech Smart phones Collaboration 2.0

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