Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate information. Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. According to the company, attackers did not obtain sensitive information about defense contracts.

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Security Affairs

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. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. ” reads the paper published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Since early February, the Russian government has blocked other encrypted email and VPN services in Russia, including ProtonMail and ProtonVPN VPN service. The Russian government asks all Internet service providers and VPN providers operating in the country to provide information about their users. ” states Tutanota.

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Security Affairs

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. The APT32 also targeted peripheral network security and technology infrastructure corporations, and security firms that may have connections with foreign investors.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

This week, Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. 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

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

“Amnesty Tech’s Security Lab found technical evidence in phishing emails sent to two prominent Vietnamese human rights defenders, one of whom lives in Germany, and a Vietnamese NGO based in the Philippines, showing that Ocean Lotus is responsible for the attacks between 2018 and November 2020.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

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. The new version 3.0 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

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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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. The APT32 also targeted peripheral network security and technology infrastructure corporations, and security firms that may have connections with foreign investors.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2024

He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. 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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The vulnerability is a use-after-free issue in the Win32k kernel driver, tracked as CVE-2021-40449 , that was addressed by Microsoft with the release of October Patch Tuesday security updates. The post Chinese APT IronHusky use Win zero-day in recent wave of attacks appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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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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. News the security breach has happened in 2009, the Iranian intelligence infiltrated a series of websites used by the CIA to communicate with agents worldwide, including Iran and China.

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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. The APT32 also targeted peripheral network security and technology infrastructure corporations, and security firms that may have connections with foreign investors.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

On March 2nd, Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported MS Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

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. The post Russia-linked actors may be behind an explosion at a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

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

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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Security Affairs

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. ” reads the post published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

Bloomberg obtained Vodafone’s security briefing documents from 2009 and 2011 and spoke with people involved in the situation. “We were made aware of historical vulnerabilities in 2011 and 2012 and they were addressed at the time. appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reported the AFP. . ” continues bloomberg.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2022

. “Belgium exposes malicious cyber activities that significantly affected our sovereignty, democracy, security and society at large by targeting the FPS Interior and the Belgian Defence. ” reads the Declaration by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on behalf of the Belgian Government. ” continues the declaration.

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Security Affairs

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. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a significant increase in cyberattacks from Iranian hackers spreading data wipers. industries and government agencies, the statement was also published by the CISA Director Chris Krebs via his Twitter account. The attacks are targeting U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

An attacker could also exploit the flaw to disable security features in the Netlogon authentication process and change a computer’s password on the domain controller’s Active Directory. Microsoft 365 Defender customers can also refer to these detections: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 5, 2020.

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Security Affairs

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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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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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week added seventeen actively exploited vulnerabilities to the Catalog. One of the issues added this week is a vulnerability in the October CMS, tracked as CVE-2021-32648 , which was recently exploited in attacks against websites of the Ukrainian government.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2022

The Tropic Trooper APT has been active at least since 2012, it was first spotted by security experts at Trend Micro in 2015, when the threat actors targeted government ministries and heavy industries in Taiwan and the military in the Philippines. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

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. Given the nature of the threat and the targets, the campaign was likely designed for espionage purposes, Talos’ security researchers say. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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MARCH 22, 2021

Norse’s attack map was everywhere for several years, and even became a common sight in the “brains” of corporate security operations centers worldwide. Flushed with venture capital funding in 2012, Norse’s founders started hiring dozens of talented cybersecurity professionals.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

In some cases, attackers are even leveraging the threat of regulatory actions or causing cyber insurance policies to be rendered moot by reporting lapses in security on the part of the victim to regulators and insurers. In all cases, the economic impact from ransomware is profound, affecting businesses, governments, and individuals globally.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

According to a new report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) almost any new weapon systems in the arsenal of the Pentagon is vulnerable to hack. “ The report was committed by the Senate Armed Services Committee that requested to review the way the Pentagon was securing its weapons systems. .

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