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Iran-linked APT35 accidentally exposed 40 GB associated with their operations

Security Affairs

Iran-linked Charming Kitten group, (aka APT35 , Phosphorus , Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team) made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Hacker leaks passwords for 900+ Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers

Security Affairs

ZDNet has obtained a copy of the list with the help of threat intelligence firm KELA and verified confirmed the authenticity of the data. military, federal, state, and local government agencies Public universities and schools Hospitals and health care providers Electric utilities Major financial institutions Numerous Fortune 500 companies.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 253

Security Affairs

ObliqueRAT, a new malware employed in attacks on government targets in Southeast Asia. New strain of Cerberus Android banking trojan can steal Google Authenticator codes. Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram blocked in Turkey as Idlib military crisis escalates. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Facebook deleted Russia-Linked efforts focusing on Ukraine ahead of the election

Security Affairs

Threat actors attempted to influence the sentiment of users in Ukraine regarding the relationship between the Russian and the Ukrainian governments. In this case, threat actors used fake accounts to impersonate military members in Ukraine and managed Groups posing as authentic military communities. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. Grichishkin pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and was sentenced to four years in prison.

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New Turla ComRAT backdoor uses Gmail for Command and Control

Security Affairs

Earlier versions of Agent.BTZ were used to compromise US military networks in the Middle East in 2008. The orchestrator reads the email address in /etc/transport/mail/mailboxes/0/command_addr by parsing the inbox HTML page (using Gumbo HTML parser ) and the cookies to authenticate on Gmail in /etc/transport/mail/mailboxes/0/cookie.

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

Security Affairs

Cyber attacks conducted by the APT37 group mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. The tool gathers several data including device name, address, class, and whether the device is connected, authenticated and remembered. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016.

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