Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2020

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert related to attacks delivering the KONNI remote access Trojan (RAT). The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published an alert to provide technical details on a new wave of attacks delivering the KONNI remote access Trojan (RAT).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2022

.” In November 2019, the former Twitter employees Abouammo and the Saudi citizen Ali Alzabarah have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. Of course, he was also able to unmask the identities of some users on behalf of the Saudi Arabian Government.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

SentinelOne documented a series of attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities in Southeast Asia and Australia carried out by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking APT tracked as Aoqin Dragon. From 2018 to present, Aoqin Dragon has also been observed using a fake removable device as an initial infection vector.

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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

MAY 12, 2020

Trojan Lampion is a malware observed at the end of the year 2019 impacting Portuguese users using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax and EDP. Below, the email templates on how Lampion has been distributed in May 2020 in Portugal are presented. Lampion email templates – May 2020. SAPO TRANSFER TEMPLATE.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2020

Security experts from FireEye have uncovered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO by spreading fake news content on compromised news websites. According to FireEye, the campaign tracked as GhostWriter, has been ongoing since at least March 2017 and is aligned with Russian security interests. “We Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 uses fake NATO training documents as bait in attacks aimed at government bodies. The Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 is behind a string of attacks that targeting government bodies with Zebrocy Delphi malware. ” reads the report published QuoIntelligence. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

These malware strains did not present any similarities with malware associated with other APT groups. A deeper analysis of some of these samples revealed that they were compiled in 2014 and used in the wild between 2014 and 2015. According to the firm, the US cyber spies are targeting various industry sectors and government agencies.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The investigation conducted by the media is based on documents from the CIA and Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency. The events under discussion date back to 1945 and are difficult to reconstruct and interpret in the present-day context,”. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

The only work experience Dobbs listed on his resume was as a freelance developer from 2013 to the present day. Dobbs’s resume doesn’t name his booter service, but in it he brags about maintaining websites with half a million page views daily, and “designing server deployments for performance, high-availability and security.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts at Flashpoint discovered the availability of the access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo. This could potentially allow actors to access proprietary internal documents or resources, as well as entry points through which they can drop various malicious payloads. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

Our new research recently discovered a security issue with Santander , the 5th largest bank in Europe and the 16th largest in the world. Representatives from the leading European bank responded to our emails and seem to have fixed the issue, as we are presently unable to access the information. or critical information from the blog?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Many experts linked the Regin malware to the Five Eyes alliance , they found alleged references to the super spyware in a number of presentations leaked by Edward Snowden and according to malware researchers, it has been used in targeted attacks against government agencies in the EU and the Belgian telecoms company Belgacom.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Marco Ramilli, founder and CEO at cyber security firm Yoroi has explained how to use Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper. Nowadays Microsoft office documents are often used to propagate Malware acting like dynamic droppers. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Stage4: AZORult evidence.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Security experts from Microsoft have uncovered an ongoing p hishing campaign launched by the TA505 cybercrime gang (aka Evil Corp ) that is employing attachments featuring HTML redirectors for delivering malicious Excel docs. pic.twitter.com/mcRyEBUmQH — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) January 30, 2020.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

Researchers from Citizen Lab uncovered the operations of a hack-for-hire group tracked as Dark Basin that targeted thousands of journalists, elected and senior government officials, advocacy groups, and hedge funds worldwide over 7 years. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. Opening up The Excel File it gets infected.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

We noticed that the TTP of the group is almost the same leveraging a weaponized document with a fake certificate of request of an Indian public fund. The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ). Figure 1: Piece of the malicious document employed in the Op.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 31, 2018

The ruling follows the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), to which the Court of Appeal referred questions regarding the instant case in 2015. The IP Act, which was enforced in 2017, largely replicates and further expands upon the powers contained in DRIPA.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

A hacker managed to identify a weak spot in a security camera model. Usually, the default settings are not focused on security. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded. The Threat is Definitely Real.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This week, we discuss a Bank of England cyber resilience exercise, the latest cyber security news from the US Office of Personnel Management, the highlights of this month’s Patch Tuesday, and a surprising admission by a Japanese cyber security minister. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 16 November.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

The rapid adoption has been driven by a combination of ever more visible browser warnings (it was Chrome and Firefox's changes which prompted the aforementioned tipping point post), more easily accessible certificates via both Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare and a growing awareness of the risks that unencrypted traffic presents. Rick Roll.

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Preservica

DECEMBER 1, 2016

HSBC’s Tina Staples and James Mortlock presented with their award. HSBC’s Global Digital Archive system launched in January 2015. Download the IGI 2016 Benchmark Report: The Governance of Long-Term Digital Information to find out how your organisation can protect and preserve digital records for the long-term.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. zip file not found and a popup message is presented.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The 2015 amendments to Rule 26(b)(1), however, were meant to resolve any doubt, returning the proportionality factors to their original place as part of the very definition of what is discoverable. 19 No longer are the proportionality considerations described as separate “limitations” on an inquiry governed solely by relevance.20

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 27, 2015

We held over fifty stakeholder meetings between October of 2013 and April of 2015. We were proactive with offers to present on the program at any venue. We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. Many are ongoing.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

This actor was first spotted by PaloAlto’s UNIT42 in 2018 during wide scale operations against technology, retail, manufacturing, and local government industries in the US, Europe and Asia. All campaigns used as the initial stage an office document (PowerPoint or Excel) armed with macro and some of them used injection methods.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

Lampion was first documented in December 2019 , and it was distributed in Portugal via phishing emails using templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. The text is written in Portuguese, and just the logo at the end of the document was changed between May and July malware versions.

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 20, 2016

Opportunities occasionally present themselves that enable us to detour and execute beneficially, as long as we are operating within the mission. Initially defined as a “document management” project, we refined the scope to step one—convert 85 four-drawer file cabinets of records into PDFs and get them into a searchable, safe, file share.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The first involves what Daniel called “spillover and collateral damage” — a global malware contagion akin to a NotPeyta event — basically some type of cyber weapon that has self-propagating capabilities and may even leverage a previously unknown security flaw in a widely-used piece of hardware or software.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 14, 2022

Senate passed an omnibus spending bill that includes language which would require certain critical infrastructure owners and operators to notify the federal government of cybersecurity incidents in specified circumstances. protect covered entities from liability for providing information to the federal government.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Development of the GCC template and instructions began in 2015 by the GCC Working Group in an effort to provide U.S. The International Insurance Relations (G) Committee will be scheduling a conference call in early 2021 to discuss the NAIC’s comments to the IAIS’ draft document ahead of the January 22 comment deadline.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipating emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. From Figure 2, January presented a total of 15 phishing campaigns, 29 in February and 46 during March. Phishing and Malware Q2 2020.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Monitoring of social media platforms is a crucial activity for intelligence agencies, almost any government is working to gather intelligence for these systems. “The Israel Defense Forces asked cybersecurity companies in 2016 to present proposals for creating a system that would monitor social media users’ personal correspondence.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipating emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. From Figure 2, January presented a total of 15 phishing campaigns, 29 in February and 46 during March. Phishing and Malware Q1 2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

Security researchers at McAfee have linked the Op. Security experts at McAfee analyzed the code of a C2 server involved in the cyber espionage campaign tracked as Op. McAfee worked with a government entity and discovered that the Op. The researchers will present their findings at the RSA security conference.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipating emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. From Figure 2, January presented a total of 15 phishing campaigns, 29 in February and 46 during March. Phishing and Malware Q3 2020.

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