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Chinese Cycldek APT targets Vietnamese Military and Government in sophisticated attacks

Security Affairs

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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InvisiMole group targets military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe

Security Affairs

Security researchers at ESET recently uncovered a campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe. The attack chain begins with the deployment of a TCP downloader that fetches the next stage payload.

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Targeted operation against Ukraine exploited 7-year-old MS Office bug

Security Affairs

The researchers pointed out that the use of the “script:” prefix demonstrates the exploitation of the vulnerability CVE-2017-8570 , a bypass for CVE-2017-0199. “The lure contained military-related content, suggesting it was targeting military personnel. The remote script, named “widget_iframe.617766616773726468746672726a6834.html,”

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New Gallmaker APT group eschews malware in cyber espionage campaigns

Security Affairs

A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. Gallmaker is a politically motivated APT group that focused its surgical operations on the government, military or defense sectors. ” continues Symantec.

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MY TAKE: How advanced automation of threat intel sharing has quickened incident response

The Last Watchdog

military complex, who got frustrated by their inability to extract actionable intel from a deluge of threat feeds. Consider that 90% of the data that exists in the world was created in two years — 2017 and 2018 — and that our digital universe is on track to swell from 3.2

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The evolutions of APT28 attacks

Security Affairs

APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). For example from 2017 to early 2018 APT28 used specific techniques such as: T1251 , T1329 , T1336 and T1319.

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James Reese Europe: America’s Jazz Ambassador

Unwritten Record

military as a lieutenant during World War I in the all-Black 369th Infantry Regiment (known as the “Harlem Hellfighters”), in which he served as a band leader. Europe’s concerts before audiences of French, British, and American military personnel was the birth of European interest in jazz music. First Lieutenant James R.