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N. Korean Kimsuky APT targets S. Korea-US military exercises

Security Affairs

-South Korea military exercise. The military drill, the Ulchi Freedom Guardian summer exercises , will start on Monday, August 21, 2023 , and will last 11 days. The military exercises aim at improving the ability of the two armies to respond to North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats. .

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Locked Shields 2019 – Chapeau, France wins Cyber Defence Exercise

Security Affairs

The international live-fire cyber defence exercise Locked Shields 2019 (LS19) took place on April 8-12 in Tallinn, Estonia, and the figures behind this important competition are important. “This year the exercise evolved around 4000 virtualised systems that had to take more than 2500 attacks. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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North Korea-linked Konni APT uses Russian-language weaponized documents

Security Affairs

The KONNI RAT was first spotted by Cisco Talos researchers in 2017, it has been undetected since 2014 and was employed in highly targeted attacks. Upon enabling the macro, the embedded VBA displays a Russian article titled “Western Assessments of the Progress of the Special Military Operation.”

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Russia-linked Gamaredon APT targeted a western government entity in Ukraine

Security Affairs

Drawing a delineation between the two then becomes an exercise in tracking the most recent infrastructure.” According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) Cyber Security Department, the group carried out over 5,000 cyberattacks against public authorities and critical infrastructure of Ukraine. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Vladimir Putin ‘s computers still run Windows XP, Media reports

Security Affairs

The news is curious and it probably has little real if not the fact that Vladimir Putin is not a super cyber security expert, although he knows its importance very well. Nowadays it is a suicide to use a computer running Windows XP because the OS doesn’t receive security updates and it is quite easy to find working exploits online.

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INTERNET BLOCKING IN MYANMAR – SECRET BLOCK LIST AND NO MEANS TO APPEAL

Security Affairs

There are four operators in Myanmar: state-owned Myanma Posts and Telecommunications ( MPT ) , Qatar based Ooredoo, military-aligned Mytel, and privately owned Telenor Myanmar. Blocked websites have no means to identify and contact the organization responsible of the blocking and exercise their rights to object. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. caused problems of their own.