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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Way back in 2018, people noticed that you could find secret military bases using data published by the Strava fitness app. Soldiers and other military personal were using them to track their runs, and you could look at the public data and find places where there should be no people running. Six years later, the problem remains.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2019

The Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) warn of “worrying” cyber espionage activities carried out by Russia and China. The Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) warn of “worrying” cyber espionage activities carried out by Russia and China.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

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. The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

Department of Justice brought charges against four Russian nationals suspected of using TRITON malware in cyber attacks on behalf of the Russian government between 2012 and 2018. ” reported the American Military News website. ” continues the American Military News website. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. According to experts from Symantec, the group is now actively conducting cyber espionage campaigns against government and military organizations in Europe and South America. Governments in Europe.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2018

Microsoft has spotted a new hacking campaign targeting 2018 midterm elections, the experts attributed the attacks to Russia-linked APT28 group. Microsoft has spotted a new hacking campaign targeting 2018 midterm elections. Securi ty Affairs – APT28, 2018 midterm elections). Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The decision is the result of assessments made by the Swedish military and security service. In April 2018, the UK GCHQ intelligence agency warned UK telcos firms of the risks of using ZTE equipment and services for their infrastructure. ” reads a press release published by the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on a Russia-linked military espionage unit, as well as companies operating for Chinese and North Korean threat actors that launched cyber-attacks against the EU and its member states. ” states the Council of the European Union.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Microsoft says Russian APT28 group carried out multiple cyberattacks on democratic institutions in Europe between September and December 2018. The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The attacks occurred between September and December 2018.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A review of this user’s hacker identities shows that during his time on the forums he served as an officer in the special forces of the GRU , the foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Federation. Or he could just be a guy wearing a military uniform.” Some of those photos date back to 2008. ” Mr. .”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The threat actors have been targeting the above industries since at least 2018. “Assessments as to the identity of the operators and authors of ShellClient resulted in the identification of a new Iranian threat actor dubbed MalKamak that has operated since at least 2018 and remained publicly unknown thus far.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

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.

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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. According to a report published by Symantec in October, the group was actively conducting cyber espionage campaigns against government and military organizations in Europe and South America.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Ivan Yermakov worked for the Russian Military Unit 26165 and was indicted by the US DoJ in October 2018, along six other defendants working for the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate ( GRU ), for hacking, wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. For the latter service, the men were keeping for them up to 60% of the profit.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to the Taiwan Investigation Bureau’s Cyber Security Investigation Office, the China-linked cyberespionage groups tracked as Blacktech and Taidoor have been targeting government agencies and information service providers since 2018. . “We know for sure that these 6,000 emails have been compromised.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

On the other end, the Chinese government considers the island its territory and does not exclude its military occupation in the future. The Chinese government has increased diplomatic and economic pressure on Taiwan over the years, it also showed the muscles increasing military drills near the country in recent weeks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Affected sectors include government, military, academic, business and healthcare,”. The CVE-2018-13379 flaw could be exploited to obtain administrator credentials in plain text. APT groups also exploit CVE-2018-13382, CVE-2018-13383, and CVE-2019-1579, in Palo Alto Networks products.

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APRIL 13, 2021

The Swedish Sports Confederation organization was compromised in 2017-18 by hackers working for Russian military intelligence, officials said. In the same period, Russia-linked hackers working for the military intelligence service GRU targeted other prominent sporting bodies, including World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and FIFA.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The decision is the result of assessments made by the Swedish military and security service. In April 2018, the UK GCHQ intelligence agency warned UK telcos firms of the risks of using ZTE equipment and services for their infrastructure.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

military curtailed the internet access of an infamous Russian trolling operation around the mid-term elections in November 2018 to stem the spread of noxious disinformation, and also directly contacted some of the troll-factory employees by name, the Washington Post reports.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Experts at Symantec first exposed the activity of the Chinese-linked APT Thrip in 2018, now the security firm confirms that cyber espionage group has continued to carry out attacks in South East Asia. The China-linked APT group Thrip is continuing to target entities in Southeast Asia even after its activity was uncovered by Symantec.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The military has identified at least six social media accounts that were used by attackers to trick the victims into installing malicious apps. Israeli military officials explained that Hamas operatives adopted the same tactic in a campaign launched in January 2018, when the hackers used the profile of a woman named “Elianna Amer.”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th 2018 – LulzSec Italy announced credit a string of hacks and leaks targeting numerous systems and websites across Italy. In celebration of Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th 2018, LulzSec Italy announced credit for a massive string of hacks and leaks targeting numerous systems and websites across Italy.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The UK agency reported that APT groups target several vulnerabilities, including CVE-2019-11510 and CVE-2019-11539 in Pulse Secure VPN solutions, and CVE-2018-13379 , The CVE-2018-13379 is a path traversal vulnerability in the FortiOS SSL VPN web portal that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to download FortiOS system files.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2021

The group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. APT28 was also involved in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election , experts link the APT to the Russian military intelligence service (GRU).

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Krebs on Security

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. The release was granted in part due to Ferizi’s 2018 diagnosis if asthma, as well as a COVID outbreak at the facility where he was housed in 2020.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2019

. “Further, the SBU also found and seized additional equipment[ 1 , 2 ] that looked like mining rigs in the building used as barracks by a military unit of the National Guard of Ukraine, tasked with guarding the power plant.” In February 2018, a similar incident took place in Russia. ” reported ZDnet.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. While 2017 was the year of WannaCry , NotPetya , and BadRabbit ransomware epidemics, 2018 revealed a lack of preparedness for side-channel attacks and threats related to microprocessor vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Since 2018, the hackers started targeting mobile users with an Android surveillance malware ChatSpy. The two malware were used to spy on personnel linked to Pakistan’s military, nuclear authorities, and Indian election officials in Kashmir. ” reads the report published by Lookout.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The list of Crypto’s customers included Iran, India and Pakistan, military juntas in Latin America and the Vatican. Crypto was liquidated in 2018, but its products are still in use in more than a dozen countries. The company was completely under the control of the spy agencies since 1970.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

Unknown hackers compromised 10 PCs at ministry’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration which is the office that manages the military procurement. The security breach has occurred on October 4, 2018, the attack aimed at 30 computers, but only 10 of them were hacked. ” the Korea’s Dong-A Ilbo reports.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2020

military’s Cyber Command. The Post report suggested the action was a bid to prevent Trickbot from being used to somehow interfere with the upcoming presidential election, noting that Cyber Command was instrumental in disrupting the Internet access of Russian online troll farms during the 2018 midterm elections. Image: Shuttstock.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2018

. “We see cyber being used to meddle in domestic political processes, attacks against critical infrastructure, and cyber will be an integral part of any future military conflict,” Stoltenberg said. Russia-linked APR groups are blamed of interference in some European elections and 2018 US midterm election.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The Sofacy APT group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. In September 2018, security experts from ESET spotted the first UEFI rootkit of ever, the code tracked as LoJax was used in attacks in the wild.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Justice Department indicted three North Korean military intelligence officials, members of the Lazarus APT group, for their involvement in cyber-attacks, including the theft of $1.3 In 2018, the U.S. government as “ FASTCash ” – including the October 2018 theft of $6.1 ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

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