Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Taiwan ‘s government agencies face around five million cyberattacks and probes every day, most of them from China. Around five million cyber attacks hit Taiwan’s government agencies every day, and most of the hacking attempts are originated from China. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Taiwan Government).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2023

TrickGate is a shellcode-based packer offered as a service, which is used at least since July 2016, to hide malware from defense programs. The TrickGate packer was primarily used in attacks aimed at the manufacturing sector, and other attacks aimed at the education, healthcare, government, and finance industries.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2019

Russian APT groups are targeting European governments for cyber-espionage purposes ahead of the upcoming European elections. The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2019

Security researchers have found a new government spyware, tracked as Exodus, that was distributed through the Google Play Store. According to Motherboard, the Android surveillance malware on the Google Play store that was sold to the Italian government by a company that sells surveillance cameras. on November 6, 2017.”

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MAY 1, 2022

Russia-linked APT29 (Cozy Bear or Nobelium) launched a spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomats and government entities. In mid-January 2022, security researchers from Mandiant have spotted a spear-phishing campaign, launched by the Russia-linked APT29 group, on targeting diplomats and government entities. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The access was first blocked via national provider Turk Telecom (AS9121), but later other service providers applied the government restrictions. In December 2016 , the Turkish blocked social media in the country to prevent the sharing of a video of the executions of Turkish soldiers by the IS group. local time (8:30 p.m.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

The unsecured storage server was discovered by security expert Greg Pollock from UpGuard, it contained 3 terabytes of data including millions of sensitive Government files and years worth of sensitive FBI investigations. The server also included email backups from 1999 to 2016, the largest and most recent reaching 16GB in size.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In addition, the government seized the domain names for two popular anonymity services that were heavily advertised on Cracked and Nulled and allowed customers to rent virtual servers: StarkRDP[.]io to , and vDOS , a DDoS-for-hire service that was shut down in 2016 after its founders were arrested. io , and rdp[.]sh. lol and nulled[.]it.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Spanish Police arrested an unnamed hacker who allegedly breached tens of government institutions in Spain and the US. Spanish National Police arrested a hacker responsible for multiple cyberattacks on government institutions in Spain and the U.S. Targe including the U.S. Army, UN, NATO, and other agencies.

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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

In the second half of 2017, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosed it was the victim of a cyber-attack in 2016. ” Radchenko and Ieremenko were charged in January 2019 for their participation in a scheme to profit from information stolen from hacked from a government database.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2018

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. Governments in Europe. A government of a South American country.

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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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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 1, 2020

Mayhem emerged from a 2016 government-sponsored contest at a Las Vegas casino hotel. Now it's used by the military—and Netflix.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Bvp47 backdoor was first discovered in 2013 while conducting a forensic investigation into a security breach suffered by a Chinese government organization. In 2016 and 2017, the hacking group The Shadow Brokers l eaked a bunch of data allegedly stolen from the Equation Group, including many hacking tools and exploits.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

The man was arrested by the FBI in October 2016 , the US DoJ charged Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material. According to a court complaint , the stolen data include source codes developed by the NSA to its hacking campaigns against foreign governments.

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APRIL 22, 2024

The threat actors shared a portion of the stolen data with TechCrunch as proof of the hack, it includes records on current and former government officials, diplomats, and politically exposed people. In June 2016, security researcher Chris Vickery found a copy of the World-Check database dated 2014 that was accidentally exposed online.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 30, 2023

The 2003 Cyberattack Has Been Linked to a State-Sponsored Cyberespionage Campaign The United Kingdom's national cybersecurity agency on Friday marked the 20th anniversary of its response to the first-ever cyberattack against the government by disclosing how government agencies responded.

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JUNE 10, 2021

The intrusion was uncovered by the Dutch intelligence service AIVD, the government experts discovered that a Dutch police IP address was connecting to servers operated by Russia-linked APT. The group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The man has remained stuck in the Asian country since February 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdown imposed by the local government and the cancelation of international travel. TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously upgraded it by implementing new features.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, 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

JANUARY 10, 2019

Kaspersky was a long accused to support Russian intelligence in cyber espionage activities and for this reason, its products have been banned by the US Government and EU Parliament. In August 2016, the FBI has arrested the former NSA contractor Harold Thomas Martin over a massive secret data theft. A first message sent on Aug.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky was recently spotted using a new piece of malware in attacks on government agencies and human rights activists. The researchers believe that attackers have tampered with the creation date of most of the files employed in the attacks and backdated them to 2016.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

The researchers concluded that 911 is supported by a “mid scale botnet-like infrastructure that operates in several networks, such as corporate, government and critical infrastructure.” The 911 user interface, as it existed when the service first launched in 2016. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS. com , cleantraffic[.]net

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

Microsoft has observed APT28 using GooseEgg in post-compromise activities against various targets, including government, non-governmental, education, and transportation sector organizations in Ukraine, Western Europe, and North America. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 21, 2020

Parliament Panel's Report Slams Government for Not Investigating Russian Activities The British government was underprepared for Russia's alleged attempts to influence the outcomes of the Brexit referendum in 2016 and the 2017 general election and failed to conduct adequate investigations, according to a report by the U.K.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

The Japanese government’s cybersecurity strategy chief Yoshitaka Sakurada is in the middle of a heated debate due to his admission about his cyber capability. “It’s a matter that should be dealt with by the government as a whole. I am confident that I am not at fault. ” replied Sakurada. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2019

Interior Minister Jan Hamacek told the CTK news agency that the government infrastructures have been dealing with the cyber attack for several months. A Czech spy agency blamed Russia for another wave of attacks targeting the Foreign Ministry in 2016 , state-sponsored hackers hacker broke into 150 ministry email accounts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2024

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, 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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Bruno Kahl, the President of the Bundesnachrichtendienst intelligence service since 2016, warned of state-sponsored attacks aimed at liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the country. The head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service warns of state-sponsored attacks aimed at liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the country.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The incident also affected US government (‘‘.gov’’) In February 2016, another attack hijacked traffic from Canada to Korean Government websites to China in what is defined as a perfect scenario of long-term cyber espionage. gov’’) and military (‘‘.mil’’) mil’’) websites.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2022

The good news is that the attacks were detected and neutralized by government experts with the help of cybersecurity firms ESET and Microsoft. Security firm ESET, which helped the Ukrainian government, published a detailed report on the Industroyer2 wiper used to target a Ukrainian energy company.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2018

government agencies, businesses and think tanks. government agencies, think tanks, and businesses. APT29 along with APT28 cyber espionage group was involved in the Democratic National Committee hack and the wave of attacks aimed at the 2016 US Presidential Elections. Cyber security experts are warning of new attacks against U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2020

According to the firm, the US cyber spies are targeting various industry sectors and government agencies. The Qihoo 360 experts claim that a CIA hacking unit tracked as APT-C-39 has hacked organizations in the aviation, scientific research, oil, technology industries, it also targeted government agencies.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations. ” reads the report published by ESET.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

The man was arrested at the end of August 2021 at the Seoul International Airport, he has remained stuck in the Asian country since February 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdown imposed by the local government and the cancelation of international travel. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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