Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

US DoJ indicted four members of the China-linked cyberespionage group known as APT40 for hacking various entities between 2011 and 2018. The APT40 group has been active since at least 2013 and appears to be focused on supporting naval modernization efforts of the Government of Beijing.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 25, 2011

The government? we're ready to announce the theme for the Web 2 Summit, 2011 , and it's this: The Data Frame. Given all this, we’re tempted to simply declare 2011 “Points of Control, The Sequel.” Of course, this fact raises serious issues of consumer privacy, corporate trust, and our governments’ approach to balancing the two.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

The threat actors shared a portion of the stolen data with TechCrunch as proof of the hack, it includes records on current and former government officials, diplomats, and politically exposed people. Curiously, in 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired World-Check, then in October 2018, Thomson Reuters closed a deal with The Blackstone Group.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

government includes: Russian state-sponsored APT actors targeting state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments and aviation networks, September 2020, through at least December 2020. Russian state-sponsored APT actors’ global Energy Sector intrusion campaign, 2011 to 2018.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

million to settle a legal dispute for selling vulnerable software to the US government. The case was filed in the Federal District Court for the Western District of New York and was handled under the False Claims Act, which specifically addresses fraud and misconduct in federal government contracts. Cisco is going to pay $8.6

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense. This morning, at a press conference, Yoshii Kan, a secretary-general of Japan, said that the company had reported the intrusion. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun. ” reported Kyodo News.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

The Tropic Trooper APT that has been active at least since 2011, it was first spotted in 2015 by security experts at Trend Micro when it targeted government ministries and heavy industries in Taiwan and the military in the Philippines. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Finisher, aka FinFisher, is a multiplatform surveillance software used by government and law enforcement agencies for their investigations, but unfortunately, it made the headlines because it was also used by oppressive regimes to spy on dissidents, activists, and Journalists.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The US had sanctioned Mahan Air in 2011 for providing financial, material, or technological support to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The tension is high between Teheran and the Western countries, the latter are blaming Iran for a series of attacks against organizations worldwide.

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JULY 21, 2021

” The Government experts shared a list of Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) for these attacks, ANSSI also urges impacted organizations to report any evidence of compromise. Experts pointed out that the network of compromised home routers was involved in both reconnaissance as well as attacks against French organizations.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I launched Security Affairs for passion in November 2011 and since then the blog was visited by tens of millions of readers. Today this simple statement is the motto of security firms and government organizations worldwide. Happy BirthDay Security Affairs! Eleven years together!

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JULY 10, 2024

Justice Department (DoJ) indicted four members of the cyber espionage group APT40 (aka TEMP.Periscope , TEMP.Jumper , and Leviathan ) for hacking tens of government organizations, private businesses and universities around the world between 2011 and 2018.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Finisher, aka FinFisher, is a multiplatform surveillance software used by government and law enforcement agencies for their investigations, but unfortunately, it made the headlines because it was also used by oppressive regimes to spy on dissidents, activists, and Journalists.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

According to the firm, the US cyber spies are targeting various industry sectors and government agencies. The Qihoo 360 experts claim that a CIA hacking unit tracked as APT-C-39 has hacked organizations in the aviation, scientific research, oil, technology industries, it also targeted government agencies. time zone.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

In April 2017, Symantec security experts who analyzed the alleged CIA hacking tools included in the Vault 7 dump that were involved in attacks aimed at least 40 governments and private organizations across 16 countries. Symantec believes Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 3, 2012

I’ve done this a few times in the past, and this year I’m feeling the need to review all I wrote in 2011, and highlight the best posts (at least, by my own measure). Do We Trust The Government With The Internet? Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights Tons of data on government as a percentage of GDP, etc.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2020

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . The group has been known to target a wide range of organizations and government agencies worldwide. continues IBM.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

The campaign was launched to protest against the Government’s plan to release the treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. The hacker collective Anonymous has launched cyberattacks against nuclear power-linked groups in Japan as part of an operation called #OpFukushima. ” reported the Japan Times.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2019

The cyber mercenaries were recruited by governments and private companies, it was composed of highly skilled hackers able to conduct sophisticated attacks. The APT group is considered a persistent collector of sensitive information, Kaspersky team detected a series of attacks against the defense supply chain (e.g.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Google queries allowed Iran Government to dismantle the CIA communication network used by its agents and kill dozens of tens of spies. In a 2012 incident in China, the Chinese government identified and killed 30 US spies. According to Yahoo ! ” reported Yahoo News. ” reported Yahoo News.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense. Mitsubishi Electric disclosed the security incident only after two local newspapers, the Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei , reported the security breach.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 The Russian government officially asked the Greek government to extradite Vinnik to Russia, where he is facing around $10,000 worth of fraud charges, practically nothing compared the charges in the US and France. million withdrawn.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . The APT group previously targeted medical research organizations in the US and Israel in late 2020, and for targeting academics from the US, France, and the Middle East region in 2019.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011. . government officials, journalists covering global politics and prominent Iranians living outside Iran.” government officials. P residential campaign.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., candidate , government officials, and expatriate Iranians.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2022

ECM’s domestic clients include the Novovoronezh, Kursk and Smolensk nuclear power plants, Russian Railways JSC, State enterprise Moscow Power Directorate, the Energy department of Moscow Government, the Moscow united electric grid JSC branch, and Baltic Oil Pipelines LLC. The collective has released a 1.7

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Many experts linked the Regin malware to the Five Eyes alliance , they found alleged references to the super spyware in a number of presentations leaked by Edward Snowden and according to malware researchers, it has been used in targeted attacks against government agencies in the EU and the Belgian telecoms company Belgacom.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

In 2011, KrebsOnSecurity dissected “SevAntivir” — Severa’s eponymous fake antivirus affiliate program — showing it was used to deploy new copies of the Kelihos spam botnet. The government argued that under U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Security experts at ClearSky analyzed attacks recently uncovered by Microsoft that targeted a US presidential candidate, government officials, journalists, and prominent expatriate Iranians. Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten employed new spear-phishing methods in attacks carried out between August and September.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

Over the years, the group hit defence contractors, manufacturers, universities, government agencies, legal firms involved in diplomatic disputes, and foreign companies involved with Australasian policy or South China Sea operations. . ” read the report published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2023

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The attacks aimed at government entities and managed service providers (MSPs) that were active in many industries, including aviation, healthcare, finance, insurance, energy, and gambling. The APT20 group has been active since at least 2011, but experts did not associate any campaign with this threat actors between 2016 and 2017.

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