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Hidden Cobra APT used the new ATM cash-out scheme FASTCash to hit banks worldwide

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. “HIDDEN COBRA actors most likely deployed ISO 8583 libraries on the targeted switch application servers.

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APT10 is back with two new loaders and new versions of known payloads

Security Affairs

The APT10 group has added two new malware loaders to its arsenal and used in attacks aimed at government and private organizations in Southeast Asia. In April 2019, China-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as APT10 has added two new loaders to its arsenal and used it against government and private organizations in Southeast Asia.

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Adventures in Contacting the Russian FSB

Krebs on Security

federal prison for his role in the theft of $9 million from RBS WorldPay in 2009. This appears to be the case regardless of which Russian government site you visit. government on multiple occasions over the past five years. Horohorin’s BadB carding store, badb[.]biz, biz, circa 2007. Image: VirusTotal.

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Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened

Schneier on Security

These code repositories, called libraries, are hosted on sites like GitHub. There are libraries for everything: displaying objects in 3D, spell-checking, performing complex mathematics, managing an e-commerce shopping cart, moving files around the internet—everything. It’s a freely available library that does data compression.

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Latest Turla backdoor leverages email PDF attachments as C&C mechanism

Security Affairs

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 Turla backdoor has been used since at least 2009 and was continuously improved across the years.

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Homomorphic Encryption Makes Real-World Gains, Pushed by Google, IBM, Microsoft

eSecurity Planet

To counter this, some major IT vendors are pushing forward with a decades-old encryption idea that was first talked about in the late 1970s but not successfully demonstrated for the first time until 2009. Since then, interest in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has increased, largely paralleling the rise of cloud computing.

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Library History with Heritage & University Archives, Part 2

Archives Blogs

In this second installment of Library History with Heritage & University archives, we’ll be looking at the trajectory of the Library School since its reorganization in 1947. Strozier Library, 1957, view this item in the digital library. The school’s name was changed once more in 2004 to the College of Information.