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APRIL 27, 2020

The Israeli government has issued an alert to organizations in the water sector following a series of cyberattacks that targeted the water facilities. ” reads the alert issued by the Israeli government. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 19, 2020

A state-based actor is launching cyber attacks against government, public services and businesses, Australia ‘s prime minister said. Australia ‘s prime minister Scott Morrison said that a “state-based actor” is targeting government, public services, and businesses.

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APRIL 20, 2020

A contact tracking app for the Coronavirus proposed to the government of the Netherlands is affected by security issues that could expose user data. The development team is working to fix the security and privacy issue and announced that it will go on with the selection process. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MARCH 19, 2020

CERT France is warning of a new wave of attacks using Pysa ransomware (Mespinoza) that is targeting local governments. CERT France cyber-security agency is warning about a new wave of ransomware attack that is targeting the networks of local government authorities. newversion ” files were generated by another instance of Pysa.”

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

US government networks are under attack, threat actors chained VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to gain unauthorized access to elections support systems. The agencies warn of risk to elections information housed on government networks. ” reads the report. ” continues the alert. .” ” continues the alert.

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APRIL 6, 2020

DarkHotel nation-state actor is exploiting a VPN zero -day to breach Chinese government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai. Chinese security-firm Qihoo 360 has uncovered a hacking campaign conducted by a DarkHotel APT group (APT-C-06) aimed at Chinese government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai. ” continues the researchers.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

A new piece of the Ryuk malware has been improved to steal confidential files related to the military, government, financial statements, and banking. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Anyone remember this "Ryuk Stealer"? . ” reported BleepingComputer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The US government declared that Russia-linked APT group Energetic Bear has breached US government networks and exfiltrated data. In March 2018, the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint technical alert to warn of attacks on US critical infrastructure powered by Russian threat actors.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A stealthy APT group tracked as Gelsemium was observed targeting a Southeast Asian government between 2022 and 2023. Palo Alto Unit42 researchers an APT group tracked as Gelsemium targeting a Southeast Asian government. appeared first on Security Affairs. OwlProxy is a unique and custom tool used by the group.

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AUGUST 10, 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. The two former Twitter employees operated for the Saudi Arabian government with the intent of unmasking dissidents using the social network.

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JULY 17, 2020

US DHS CISA urges government agencies to patch SIGRed Windows Server DNS vulnerability within 24h due to the likelihood of the issue being exploited. The ED 20-03 emergency directive requires agencies to install the security patches within by Friday, July 17, 2020, 2:00 pm EDT. ” states Krebs. ” states Krebs.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new malware, tracked as ObliqueRAT, that appears a custom malware developed by a threat actor focused on government and diplomatic targets. . “CrimsonRAT has been known to target diplomatic and government organizations in Southeast Asia.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 9, 2020

The German foreign ministry has restricted the use of the video conferencing service Zoom due to concerns about security vulnerabilities recently discovered. Zoom is one of the most popular video conferencing platforms, but recently privacy and security issues have raised a heated debate on its usage. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JULY 18, 2023

[This is Part III in a series on research conducted for a recent Hulu documentary on the 2015 hack of marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com.] LeakedSource also tried to pass itself off as a legal, legitimate business that was marketing to security firms and professionals. In 2019, a Canadian company called Defiant Tech Inc.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

The German Interior Minister wants to dismiss the head of the Federal Cyber Security Authority (BSI), Arne Schoenbohm, due to possible contacts with Russian security services. The news was reported by German media on Sunday, citing government sources. The news was reported by German media on Sunday, citing government sources.

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JUNE 21, 2021

The British Security Service, also known as MI5, has seized the mobile devices used by PM Boris Johnson over concerns that were raised after the discovery of the availability of its number online for the last 15 years. ” The case raises the importance of a good cyber security posture for politicians and government officials.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

ZDNet has reported in exclusive that a list of plaintext usernames and passwords for 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, along with IP addresses, has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. According to Bank Security , all the Pulse Secure VPN servers included in the list were vulnerable to the CVE-2019-11510 flaw.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

North Korea-linked APT group targeted UN Security Council officials over the past year, states a report from the United Nations organ. A North-Korea-linked cyber espionage group has launched spear-phishing attacks aimed at compromising tens of officials from the United Nations Security Council. ” reads the report.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

The proprietors of the service, who use the collective nickname “ The Manipulaters ,” have been the subject of three stories published here since 2015. The FBI and authorities in The Netherlands this week seized dozens of servers and domains for a hugely popular spam and malware dissemination service operating out of Pakistan.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked threat actors posed as Samsung recruiters in a spear-phishing campaign aimed at employees at South Korean security firms. North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. In December 2015, Ferizi was apprehended in Malaysia and extradited to the United States. military members and government employees. The Pentagon Crew forum founded by Ferizi.

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

The US Department of Homeland Security revealed that unknown threat actors have targeted the network of the US Census Bureau during the last year. The US Census Bureau is the largest US federal government statistical agency responsible dedicated to providing current facts and figures about America’s people, places, and economy.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Cybersecurity experts at CyberNews hijacked close to 28,000 unsecured printers worldwide and forced them to print out a guide on printer security. Most of us already know the importance of using antivirus , anti-malware, and VPNs to secure our computers, phones, and other devices against potential attacks. Original post: [link].

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Britain and the United governments blame Russia for being behind a destructive cyber attack that hit Georgia during 2019. The governments of Britain and the US declared that Russia’s military intelligence service GRU is behind the massive cyber attack that hit Georgia during 2019. ” said the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

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AUGUST 29, 2020

According to a joint advisory issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and U.S. The BeagleBoyz APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. ” reads the alert.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Malaysia’s MyCERT issued a security alert to warn of a hacking campaign targeting government officials that was carried out by the China-linked APT40 group. The attackers aimed at stealing confidential documents from government systems after having infected them with malware. ” reads the alert issued by MyCERT.

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MAY 13, 2020

“On May 12, 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Defense (DoD) released three Malware Analysis Reports (MARs) on malware variants used by the North Korean government.” Department of Homeland Security, the U.S.

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APRIL 5, 2022

Ukraine CERT-UA published a security advisory to warn of spear-phishing attacks conducted by Russia-linked Armageddon APT (aka Gamaredon , Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) targeting local state organizations. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Roskomnadzor is attempting to oblige the IT giants, including Facebook, Twitter, and Google to move data related to Russian citizens to servers in Russia allowing the Government to monitor them., The Russian government could also ban IT companies that will not comply with the same law. .” reported the Associated Press.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

DFS immediately reported the attack to national security authorities. Cybersecurity experts linked the attack to the Russian nation-state actor APT28 which was responsible for the 2015 attack on the Bundestag. DFS did not share details about the security breach.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

’ The Lazarus APT is linked to North Korea, the activity of the Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. The Israeli statement did not explicitly refer to the government of Pyongyang and did not provide details about the attack (the targeted companies, data of the attack).

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MAY 18, 2020

A new ransomware attack hit the Texas government, the malware this time infected systems at the state’s Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The Texas government suffered two ransomware attacks in a few weeks, the first one took place on May 8, 2020 and infected systems at the Texas court. All @txcourts websites are down.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

A security expert found a flaw in SharePoint that could be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted SharePoint application package. Summary: A few days ago I saw a post from Alienvault which says attackers are still exploiting SharePoint vulnerability to attack Middle East government organization.

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MAY 29, 2020

Security experts from Cyble discovered in the dark web a database containing details of over 20 Million Taiwanese citizens. According to the experts, the leak includes government data of an entire country, it was leaked online by a reputable actor that goes online with moniker ‘Toogod.”. ” reads a post published by Cyble. .

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MAY 12, 2020

IBM security researcher continues to monitor the evolution of the infamous Zeus Sphinx banking Trojan (aka Zloader or Terdot ) that receives frequent updates and that was involved in active coronavirus scams. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. 2 Trojan that was leaked online.

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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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APRIL 11, 2020

Italian state-owned bank Monte dei Paschi discloses a security breach, hackers have accessed the mailboxes of some employees and sent emails to clients. Many banks have warned that customers have already been the victims of cyber attacks by crooks posing as banks, government and even health service. Pierluigi Paganini.

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