Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Mustang Panda has been active since at least 2012, it targeted American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organizations at the Vatican. In the 2022 campaigns, threat actors used European Union reports on the conflict in Ukraine and Ukrainian government reports as lures.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

The news was reported by German media on Sunday, citing government sources. According to an investigation conducted by broadcaster ZDF, Schoenbohm was in contact with Russia through an association that he co-founded in 2012, the Cyber Security Council of Germany. ” reported Reuters.

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MARCH 1, 2020

Attacks against undersea cables are not a novelty, in 2014 The Register published information on a secret British spy base located at Seeb on the northern coast of Oman, a strategic position that allows the British Government to tap to various undersea cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian/Arabian Gulf.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

Last year, the group published a detailed analysis on how the Chinese government has improved its surveillance system to detect and block the popular circumvention tools Shadowsocks and its variants. ” reads the paper published by the experts.

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JULY 25, 2022

The ransomware gang Lockbit claims to have hacked the Italian Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) and added the government agency to the list of victims reported on its dark web leak site. It has its own statute and specific regulations governing administration and accounting. 300 of 1999.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Investigators say Bukoski’s booter service was among the longest running services targeted by the FBI, operating since at least 2012. The government’s sentencing memorandum says Bukoski’s replies demanding to know the reasons for the suspensions were instrumental in discovering his real name.

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JUNE 25, 2024

In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country and years later he contacted a LulzSec leader who was working for the FBI and provided him a list of targets.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The APT32 group has been active since at least 2012, it has targeted organizations across multiple industries and foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. Now the Facebook security team has revealed the real identity of APT32 , linking the group to an IT company in Vietnam named CyberOne Group. .

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MARCH 10, 2020

Necurs botnet is one of the largest spam botnet , it has been active since at least 2012 and was involved in massive campaigns spreading malware such as the Locky ransomware , the Scarab ransomware , and the Dridex banking Trojan. The Necurs botnet is active since at least 2012, it is operated by the cybercrime gang tracked as TA505.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The APT32 group has been active since at least 2012, it has targeted organizations across multiple industries and foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. ” “The Vietnamese government must carry out an independent investigation. ” reads the post published by Amnesty International.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 3, 2012

2012 is going to be a year of contrasts – of consolidation of power for the Internet Big Five , and fragmentation and disruption of that power due to both startups as well as government and consumer action. And this will become a major part of Twitter’s work in 2012; work that, to my point, is the work of a media company.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

The IronHusky APT has been active at least since 2017 when the group was spotted targeting Russian and Mongolian government entities, aviation companies, and research institutes.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 2, 2013

The post Predictions From Last Year: How I Did (2012 Edition) appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. As you can see from my 2012 predictions roundup , I took something of a new approach to the prognostication game last year. But the company didn’t do too much to prove my point in 2012. I hope 2013 keeps pace.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

The APT32 group has been active since at least 2012, it has targeted organizations across multiple industries and foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. According to FireEye, the nation-state hackers targeted the Wuhan Government and the Chinese Ministry of Emergency Management with spear-phishing attacks.

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JANUARY 25, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense. The two media outlets attribute the cyber attack to a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Tick (aka Bronze Butler ).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. The campaign, which may have started as far back as 2012, featured a multi-stage approach and was dubbed EasternRoppels.”

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JUNE 25, 2020

In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country and years later he contacted s LulzSec leader who was working for the FBI and provided him a list of targets. “In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 9, 2012

Corporations are arguably the most powerful institutions in human history, more powerful than all but the largest governments. But I’m not arguing it will in 2012. What I am predicting is that this debate will become central to our political and cultural conversation in 2012. Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The group of threat actors calling themselves ‘Justice Blade’ published leaked data from Smart Link BPO Solutions, an outsourcing IT vendor working with major enterprises and government agencies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other countries in the GCC.

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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

APRIL 9, 2023

made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. manufacturers on behalf of Russian end-users, including defense contractors and other Russian government agencies.

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JUNE 26, 2022

Department of Justice brought charges against four Russian nationals suspected of using TRITON malware in cyber attacks on behalf of the Russian government between 2012 and 2018. . “On March 24 the U.S. ” reported the American Military News website.

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JULY 19, 2022

.” reads the Declaration by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Belgian Government. ” According to the government of Belgium the attacks were carried out by multiple Advanced Persistent Threat groups, including APT27 , APT30 , and APT31. However, the group has been active at least since 2012.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The APT32 group has been active since at least 2012, it has targeted organizations across multiple industries and foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. However, Malwarebytes researchers have found some links with APT32 , which is a Vietnam-linked cyberespionage group.

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APRIL 30, 2019

. “The issues were identified by independent security testing, initiated by Vodafone as part of our routine security measures, and fixed at the time by Huawei,” Huawei clarified that the flaws were discovered back in 2011 and 2012 and were quickly fixed. Software vulnerabilities are an industry-wide challenge.”

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MARCH 16, 2021

Most targeted sectors have been Government/Military (17% of all exploit attempts), followed by Manufacturing (14%), and then Banking (11%). and later Exchange 2013, 2016, or 2019 Windows Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, Server 2012 R2, Server 2016, Server 2019.

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JUNE 24, 2019

industries and government agencies, the statement was also published by the CISA Director Chris Krebs via his Twitter account. “CISA is aware of a recent rise in malicious cyber activity directed at United States industries and government agencies by Iranian regime actors and proxies.” The attacks are targeting U.S.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

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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MAY 21, 2020

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

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, the government alleges. The government says Iza kept R.C.’s

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Government Payment Service Inc. — a company used by thousands of U.S. Indianapolis-based GovPayNet , doing business online as GovPayNow.com , serves approximately 2,300 government agencies in 35 states. GovPayNow.com displays an online receipt when citizens use it to settle state and local government fees and fines via the site.

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JUNE 13, 2022

However, the group has been active at least since 2012. Since 2021, the cyberespionage group has started targeting financial institutions and government entities in Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, Malaysia, Mozambique, the Philippines, Russia and Vietnam. Unlike past attacks, the group started using the PingPull RAT. .

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

. “One of the adversaries noticed by our analysts was interesting because the attacker leveraged an older vulnerability for SharePoint (CVE-2019-0604) to exploit remotely unpatched servers (typically Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012) and then implant a web shell to gain persistent access and code execution.”

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MARCH 5, 2019

A cyber-espionage group, tracked as APT40, apparently linked to the Chinese government is focused on targeting countries important to the country’s Belt and Road Initiative. Jumper , and Leviathan ), apparently linked to the Chinese government, is focused on targeting countries important to the country’s Belt and Road Initiative (i.e.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 3, 2012

And 2012 will be the year this becomes readily apparent. In short: In 2012, every Big Five Internet company will need to have a clear Twitter strategy. It’ll do more with Twitter in 2012, to be sure. In 2012, every Big Five player is going to have to reckon (again) with Twitter. At the moment, not all of them do.

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MAY 9, 2022

MustangPanda, also known as “RedDelta” or “Bronze President,” has been active since at least 2012, it targeted American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organizations at the Vatican. Asia and pseudo allies such as Russia.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

A malware campaign using new LuckyCat-Linked RAT dubbed ExileRAT has been targeting the mailing list of the organization officially representing the Tibetan government-in-exile. ” reads the analysis published by Talos. ” continues the report.

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