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Platinum APT and leverages steganography to hide C2 communications

Security Affairs

The Platinum cyber espionage group uses steganographic technique to hide communications with the Command and Control Servers (C&C). Experts from Kaspersky have linked the Platinum APT group with cyber attacks involving an elaborate, and new steganographic technique used to hide communications with C2 servers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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10-year-old vulnerability in Avaya VoIP Phones finally fixed

Security Affairs

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2009-0692 , could be exploited by an attacker to crash the ISC DHCP client and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the client. Avaya did not address the vulnerability issue in some of its VoIP devices by applying the necessary patches that were released after the discovery of the flaw in 2009.

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Russian spies are attempting to tap transatlantic undersea cables

Security Affairs

Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. This has raised concerns that Russian agents are checking the cables for weak points, with a view to tapping or even damaging them in the future.” Source [link].

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Symantec uncovered the link between China-Linked Thrip and Billbug groups

Security Affairs

The group has continued launching attacks against entities in Southeast Asia, including military, satellite communications, media and educational organizations. The targets of the two groups show significant overlap, Billbug also targeted organizations many military and government organizations in South Asia since at least January 2009.

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Newly Discovered Malware Evades Detection by Hijacking Communications

eSecurity Planet

However, Symantec researchers concluded Daxin is particularly stealthy, with a powerful ability to communicate over hijacked TCP/IP connections. Multi-node Communications a New Tactic. Codebase Dates to 2009. The post Newly Discovered Malware Evades Detection by Hijacking Communications appeared first on eSecurityPlanet.

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DHS issued an alert on attacks aimed at Managed Service Providers

Security Affairs

The use of MSP is increasing the attack surface for attackers, the DHS’ alert TA18-276B , is related to activity that was uncovered by DHS’ National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) in April 2017. ” reads the alert issued by DHS. APT actors have targeted victims in several U.S.

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT uses a Mac variant of the Dacls RAT

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. The Mac RAT implements a C&C communication similar to the Linux variant.

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