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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. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, InvisiMole).

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WinRAR CVE-2018-20250 flaw exploited in multiple campaigns

Security Affairs

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-20250, was discovered by experts at Check Point in February, it could allow an attacker to gain control of the target system. The flaw is an “Absolute Path Traversal” issue in the library that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code by using a specially-crafted file archive.

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Chinese actor ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ remained undetected for five years

Security Affairs

A previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ has been targeting military and government entities since 2018. Since at least 2018, they used SilentGh0st, TranslucentGh0st, and three variants of the.NET agent SharpJSHandler supported by Ps2dllLoader. ” reads the report.

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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). However most of the new attacks, qualitative speaking, happened during the time frame between 2018 to 2019.

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Latest Turla backdoor leverages email PDF attachments as C&C mechanism

Security Affairs

The cyberspies first compromised the network of the country’s Federal College of Public Administration , then breached into the network of the Foreign Office in March 2017, the hack was discovered by German authorities at the end of the year and publicly disclosed in March 2018. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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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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