Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2020

The group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015 but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. In December 2019, the APT group targeted several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Gamaredon group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. In December 2019, the APT group targeted several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2021

Inglis retired from NSA in 2014 where he served the US government for 28 years, since 2013 as the agency’s deputy director. Easterly has worked in the cybersecurity division at Morgan Stanley for the past four years, she has served 14 years in government and military service. I’m proud of what we are building across the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

The Transparent Tribe cyber-espionage group continues to improve its arsenal while targets Military and Government entities. The Transparent Tribe APT group is carrying out an ongoing cyberespionage campaign aimed at military and diplomatic targets worldwide. Transparent Tribe continues to show high activity against multiple targets.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2021

The MoD is offering a salary of £33k to “work alongside some of the best scientists and engineers within defence and will be tasked with delivering prototype solutions directly to the soldiers and officers of a unique and specialized military unit.” ”What unique and specialised military unit is famously based in Hereford?

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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. . IBM X-Force IRIS did not find evidence of the two military members’ professional network credentials being compromised, and no professional information appears to have been included.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Confucius is a pro-India APT group that has been active since 2013, it mainly focused on Pakistani and other South Asian targets. The two malware were used to spy on personnel linked to Pakistan’s military, nuclear authorities, and Indian election officials in Kashmir. ” reads the report published by Lookout.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Garda and military intelligence agencies believe the Russian agents were sent by the military intelligence branch of the Russian armed forces, the GRU. Despite the Cable & Wireless bought by Vodafone in July 2012, the Nigella surveillance access point remained active as of April 2013. Source [link]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

.” The attackers used spear-phishing messages sent to government officials, they posed as a journalist, an individual from a trade publication, or individuals from a relevant military organization or non-governmental organization (NGO). The messages contained links to weaponized Office documents stored on Google Drive.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The Thrip group has been active since 2013, but this is the first time Symantec publicly shared details of its activities. The group has continued launching attacks against entities in Southeast Asia, including military, satellite communications, media and educational organizations. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Bvp47 backdoor was first discovered in 2013 while conducting a forensic investigation into a security breach suffered by a Chinese government organization. The name “ Bvp47 ” comes form numerous references to the string “Bvp” and the numerical value “0x47” used in the encryption algorithm.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2022

Symantec and TrendMicro first discovered the Gamaredon group in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. It is distributed in a spear-phishing campaign with a weaponized office document that appears to be designed to lure military personnel.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2019

The activities of the APT group were first uncovered by Kaspersky Lab in September 2013, at the time the researchers defined the crew as an emerging group of cyber-mercenaries that was able to carry out surgical hit and run operations against strategic targets. Feedbacks and questions are welcome!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

Most targeted sectors have been Government/Military (17% of all exploit attempts), followed by Manufacturing (14%), and then Banking (11%). We have tested this tool across Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 deployments.” ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Russia-linked Gamaredon cyberespionage group has been targeting Ukrainian targets, including diplomats, government and military officials. Russia linked APT group tracked as Gamaredon has been targeting several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement. ” reads the report published by Anomaly.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

The InvisiMole group is a Russia-linked threat actor that has been active since at least 2013- ESET experts linked the group to the Gamaredon Russian APT group, despite it is considering the two crews independent. .” Ukraine’s CERT also shared Indicators of compromise (IoCs) for the recent attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Gamaredon group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. In December 2019, the APT group targeted several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. APT33 , the Iran-linked APT group, has been using multiple layers of obfuscation to run a dozen live C2 servers involved in extremely targeted malware attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The Gamaredon group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. In December 2019, the APT group targeted several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2018

.” APT1 cyberespionage group, aka Comment Crew , was first discovered in 2013 by experts from Mandiant firm.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2020

” Back in 2013, the security researchers at FireEye spotted a group of China-Linked hackers that conducted an espionage campaign on foreign affairs ministries in Europe. We named this new family of samples, “Ketrum”, due to the merger of features in the documented backdoor families “Ketrican” and “Okrum”.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2024

The Russia-based cybercrime group dubbed “ Fin7 ,” known for phishing and malware attacks that have cost victim organizations an estimated $3 billion in losses since 2013, was declared dead last year by U.S. authorities. “FIN7 rents a large amount of dedicated IP on Stark Industries,” Edwards said.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2019

The Gamaredon APT was first spotted in 2013 and in 2015, when researchers at LookingGlass shared the details of a cyber espionage operation tracked as Operation Armageddon, targeting other Ukrainian entities. This campaign, instead, seems to be linked to another Russian hacking group: Gamaredon. net” C2 (Source:VT). Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2023

The sanctioned entities conducted operations to steal funds to support the military strategy of the regime. The 110th Research Center conducted cyber campaigns targeting networks worldwide, in 2013 it carried out a hacking campaign, tracked as DarkSeoul , which destroyed thousands of systems of organizations in the financial sector.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

The FBI also found what specific pages Al-Azhari visited, including a section on donating Bitcoin; another focused on military operations conducted by ISIS fighters in Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria; and another page that provided links to material from ISIS’s media arm. There are lots of ways to de-anonymize Tor users.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2020

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. One of the above companies was headquartered in the University’s library, and the professor was also a former member of China’s military.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). Analyzing how tactics , techniques and procedures of the Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group evolve over the time.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Security experts who reviewed the leaked data say they believe the information is legitimate, and that i-SOON works closely with China’s Ministry of State Security and the military. Danowski said that in 2013, i-SOON established a department for research on developing new APT network penetration methods.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published new details about the identity of “Rescator,” a Russian cybercriminal who is thought to be closely connected to the 2013 data breach at Target. 9, 2024).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2019

The group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015 but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013. During recent times, Gamaredon is targeting the Ukrainian military and law enforcement sectors too, as officially stated by the CERT-UA.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

I talked to Phil Neray, vice president of industrial security at CyberX , a company founded in 2013 that operates a platform for real-time security of the industrial internet. Countries with limited military might and financial resources can create a more level battleground for themselves by engaging in cyber battles. What’s ahead.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management , I’ve had insurance coverage from Premera Blue Cross and I’ve stayed at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Established in 2013, the FIDO alliance is an open industry association focused on developing authentication standards to help reduce the world’s over-dependency on passwords. The combination of prominent media-reported mega breaches and less famous identity thefts have promoted the industry to adopt passwordless authentication methods.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The company launched in 2013, the brainchild of Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang, a couple of buddies working as security analysts in a U.S. military complex, who got frustrated by their inability to extract actionable intel from a deluge of threat feeds. ThreatQuotient is a Reston, Virg.-based

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Data Matters

AUGUST 28, 2020

4) The Foundational Technologies ANPRM signals potential expansion of controls on items currently subject to military end-use and end-user restrictions. The Foundational Technologies ANPRM indicates that foundational technologies could include items already controlled for military end-use or to military end-users under Supplement No.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. It’s used to keeping this stuff behind multiple levels of security: gates with alarms, armed guards, safe doors, and military-grade cryptography.

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The change only pertained to aviation positions and it wasn’t until 2013 that the policy was lifted from all assignments. A special edition of “Air Force Television News” distributed the press conference to members of the military. A brief history of female military pilots.

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