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North Korea-linked APT37 exploited IE zero-day in a recent attack

Security Affairs

“This attack requires an authenticated client to click a link in order for an unauthenticated attacker to initiate remote code execution.” Cyber attacks conducted by the APT37 group mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea.

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Faulty DoD Cybersecurity Leaves U.S. At Risk of Missile Attacks

Adam Levin

The report issued by the Inspector General’s office details several basic lapses in security protocols at five separate locations, including: A lack of multifactor authentication to access BMDS technical information. Known and unpatched network vulnerabilities dating back as far as 1990. No physical locks on server racks.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

KrebsOnSecurity began researching Icamis’s real-life identity in 2012, but failed to revisit any of that research until recently. For starters, they frequently changed the status on their instant messenger clients at different times. Also, they each privately discussed with others having attended different universities.

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North Korea-linked ScarCruft APT adds Bluetooth Harvester to its arsenal

Security Affairs

ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February 2018 when researchers revealed that the APT group leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to deliver malware to South Korean users. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016.

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Q&A: Cloud Providers and Leaky Servers

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

There is simply far more data to lose today, and thanks to data breach notification laws and good netizens, we now know about the household names that lose control of our personal information and government secrets. The only way to view this data again is to be authenticated by the cloud encryption gateway.

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MY TAKE: These 7 nation-state backed hacks have put us on the brink of a global cyber war

The Last Watchdog

Military operatives and intelligence units today routinely hack to knock down critical infrastructure, interfere with elections, and even to exact revenge on Hollywood studios. Since 2012, petrochemical plants located in Saudi Arabia have been repeated disrupted by hackers. Iran hacks Saudi plants. purportedly to attend a conference.

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MY TAKE: How state-backed cyber ops have placed the world in a constant-state ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’

The Last Watchdog

That May 10th air strike by the Israel Defense Force marked the first use of military force in direct retaliation for cyber spying. This comes as no surprise to anyone in the military or intelligence communities. Here are a few things everyone should know about the current state of government-backed cyber ops.

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