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Volvo Cars suffers a data breach. Is it a ransomware attack?

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Swedish automotive manufacturer Volvo Cars revealed that has suffered a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of R&D data. Swedish automotive manufacturer Volvo Cars revealed that threat actors have stolen R&D data from its systems. Snatch ransomware operators already leaked 35.9 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Microsoft seized 42 domains used by the China-linked APT15 cyberespionage group

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APT15 has been active since at least 2010, it conducted cyber espionage campaigns against targets worldwide in several industries, including defense, high tech, energy, government, aerospace, and manufacturing.

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China-linked Budworm APT returns to target a US entity

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The Budworm cyber espionage group (aka APT27 , Bronze Union , Emissary Panda , Lucky Mouse , TG-3390 , and Red Phoenix) is behind a series attacks conducted over the past six months against a number of high-profile targets, including the government of a Middle Eastern country, a multinational electronics manufacturer, and a U.S.

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Cyber mercenaries and insiders hired by Chinese intelligence to hack aerospace and tech firms

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The turbofan engine was manufactured by a French aerospace company, which also had offices in the Jiangsu province with a U.S.-based “At the time of the intrusions, a Chinese state-owned aerospace company was working to develop a comparable engine for use in commercial aircraft manufactured in China and elsewhere.”

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China-linked cyberspies Turbine PANDA targeted aerospace firms for years

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According to the experts the cyber espionage operations begun in January 2010, after the state-owned enterprise Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) selected U. “However, the C919 can hardly be seen as a complete domestic triumph, because it is reliant on a plethora of foreign-manufactured components.

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The role of a secret Dutch mole in the US-Israeli Stuxnet attack on Iran

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Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm developed to target SCADA systems that was first uncovered in 2010, but researchers believe its development begun at least 2005. Germany provided technical specifications and knowledge about the ICS systems manufactured by Siemens that were controlling the centrifuges at the Natanz Iranian plant.

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SweynTooth Bluetooth flaws affect devices from major system-on-a-chip (SoC) vendors

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The protocol Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) was released in 2010 and it is designed to implement a new generation of services for mobile applications. We also urge SoC vendors and IoT product manufacturers to be aware of such security issues and to initiate focused effort in security testing.” ” continues the experts.

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