Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. The group operates out of military unity 26165 of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS). Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The attacks against the country attributed to China raised since the 2016 election of President Tsai Ing-wen, who always claimed the independence of the island from Beijing. On the other end, the Chinese government considers the island its territory and does not exclude its military occupation in the future. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016. Cyber attacks conducted by the APT37 group mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. ” reads the post published by ESET. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” reads the joint advisory.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

.” The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2022

citizens to limit movement and travel in the country to the necessities and have travel documents up to date and easily accessible, fearing that the attack could impact government infrastructure for the identification of people residing in Montenegro and the transportation. According to the Minister, the attack began on Thursday night.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

The IT giant reported that at least one China linked APT group, tracked as HAFNIUM , chained these vulnerabilities to access on-premises Exchange servers to access email accounts, and install backdoors to maintain access to victim environments. We have tested this tool across Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 deployments.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The Government of Canada blamed the GRU , the Russian military’s intelligence agency, for cyber attacks at the Montreal-based World Anti-Doping Agency. The Netherlands expelled four alleged agents, while the United States charged seven Russian agents with hacking the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 2016.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Other hubs followed at military bases, other state universities and even a high school and a non-profit community arts and tech center. The early Cyber Range hubs were mainly used to help educate and certify military technicians and cybersecurity professionals at selected companies. They answered, yes. Shoring up weak links.

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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. The victim will execute the worm every time he tries to access a directory.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

As first detailed by KrebsOnSecurity in July 2016 , Orcus is the brainchild of John “Armada” Rezvesz , a Toronto resident who until recently maintained and sold the RAT under the company name Orcus Technologies. I tend to have a violent nature, and have both Martial arts and Military training. An advertisement for Orcus RAT.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2019

The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The trio has worked as hackers-for-hire for the United Arab Emirates cybersecurity company DarkMatter between January 2016 and November 2019. export control, computer fraud and access device fraud laws. military and various government contractors, then with a U.S. ” reads the response. and its ally, the U.A.E.,

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The STRONTIUM Russia-linked APT group is compromising common IoT devices to gain access to several corporate networks. Researchers at Microsoft observed the Russia-linked APT group STRONTIUM abusing IoT devices to gain access to several corporate networks. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. ” continues Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

It’s Testing U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Italian Military Personnel and National Association of Professional Educators. Administrator Username & Password To Access Archive: [link]. Military Personnel. Brian Dunn is a writer & researcher formally working as a content specialist for AnonHQ throughout 2015-2016. 38 Databases Total: [link].

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

investigators that they had access to a wealth of personal information tied to a cryptocurrency exchange Kulkov had used. Like many other top cybercriminals based in Russia or in countries with favorable relations to the Kremlin, the proprietor of Try2Check was not particularly difficult to link to a real-life identity. Image: Migalki.net.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Touhill “Adversaries should remember that our military doctrine identifies cyber as one of our combined arms capabilities,” says Greg Touhill, president of AppGate Federal Group , a Florida-based supplier of software perimeter security systems. You can easily purchase access to vulnerable U.S. That was a glitch. electrical grid.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2022

The six individuals are Russian officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU), a division of the Russian military intelligence that was often involved in malicious cyber operations against US infrastructure. critical infrastructure.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. The BlindingCan was employed in attacks on US and foreign companies operating in the military defense and aerospace sectors. The use of the BlindingCan RAT was first documented by the U.S.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Versa SASE stands out in the Secure Access Service Edge market for its self-hosted option for organizations seeking full control of their SASE environment, but the company also retains a private backbone for clients seeking a high-speed and traditionally-managed SASE solution. Who is Versa Networks?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

citizens to limit movement and travel in the country to the necessities and have travel documents up to date and easily accessible, fearing that the attack could impact government infrastructure for the identification of people residing in Montenegro and the transportation. “A According to the Minister, the attack began on Thursday night.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Department of Justice announced charges against six members of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency for their alleged role in several major cyberattacks conducted over the past years. DoJ announced charges against six Russian intelligence officers for their role in several major cyberattacks carried out over the last years.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The TTPs used in the most recent attacks are similar to those observed in attacks against governments, militaries, think tanks, law firms, human rights organizations, financial firms and universities around the world. According to the WADA, the hackers accessed the Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) database.

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IT Governance

APRIL 2, 2020

Victoria, Australia, school says former student gained unauthorised access to sensitive data (90,000). Medical and military contractor Kimchuk hit by ransomware (unknown). Settlement reached in lawsuit over 2016 hack of Quest Diagnostics. European electricity association says criminal hackers infiltrated its systems (unknown).

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 18, 2020

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). Near the end of the movie the Rebel Alliance infiltrates the Imperial Center of Military Research on the planet Scarif (i.e., The Rebels engaged in social engineering tactics—using ways of fooling the user into providing data or access to information—to steal the schematic plans for the Death Star.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

It’s used to keeping this stuff behind multiple levels of security: gates with alarms, armed guards, safe doors, and military-grade cryptography. It’s amazing that one person could have had so much access with so little accountability, and could sneak all of this data out without raising any alarms. And Edward Snowden?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 26, 2021

While the tool offers no defense for Exchange Servers that attackers already have access to, it is a sensible first step to diminishing the risk of an attack. Microsoft reports that the tool has been tested for Exchange Server 2013, 2016 and 2019. The other Vulnerability Culprits. According to their data, the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption is the act of translating data into secret code ( ciphertext ) and back again ( plaintext ) for secure access between multiple parties. With shared protocols and encryption algorithms, users can encode files or messages only accessible to other select clients. The Move to HTTPS. The History and Future of Encryption.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

There’s no mention of the incident on the company’s homepage , but in an FAQ page on its website , the company said an investigation “confirmed that the perpetrators gained access to email addresses and encrypted password credentials of customers who registered on the company website”. The bank refunded all of them within days.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. With 3000 servers in 160 locations and 94 countries, ExpressVPN boasts its military-grade encryption and leak-proofing features, including a kill switch and unlimited bandwidth for clients.

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