Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“A January 2024 court-authorized operation has neutralized a network of hundreds of small office/home office (SOHO) routers that GRU Military Unit 26165 , also known as APT28, Sofacy Group , Forest Blizzard , Pawn Storm , Fancy Bear , and Sednit , used to conceal and otherwise enable a variety of crimes.”

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 5, 2022

However, in our research, Investing in Cyber Resilience (2021) we found that only 49 percent of companies have a fully implemented and rolled out cyber security strategy, indicating pervasive barriers to cyber strategy adoption. And who is creating and driving the cyber strategy?

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 2, 2021

Connecticut recently passed two cybersecurity laws that will become effective on October 1, 2021. On June 16, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed HB 5310, An Act Concerning Data Privacy Breaches. On July 6, 2021, Governor Ned Lamont signed HB 6607, An Act Incentivizing the Adoption of Cybersecurity Standards for Businesses.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Also Read: Best Encryption Tools & Software for 2021. We also look into the most dangerous strains today and predictions for 2021. Others go further in estimating ransomware will cost as much as $6 trillion per year starting in 2021 ( Cybersecurity Ventures ). Also Read: Top Threat Intelligence Platforms for 2021.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Security experts who reviewed the leaked data say they believe the information is legitimate, and that i-SOON works closely with China’s Ministry of State Security and the military. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

Sol Oriens statement to us now: “In May 2021, Sol Oriens became aware of a cybersecurity incident that impacted our network environment.” H/t @mcwellons — Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) June 10, 2021. The ransomware gang threatened to leak relevant documentation and data belonging to military agencies.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2021

The Operation Transparent Tribe (Operation C-Major, APT36, and Mythic Leopard) was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of cyber espionage operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. ” read the analysis published Cisco Talos.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2021

On March 2nd, Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported MS Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild. 2/5 — ESET research (@ESETresearch) March 2, 2021.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2022

The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. In December 2019, the APT group targeted several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement. The Gamaredon group was first discovered by Symantec and TrendMicro in 2015, but evidence of its activities has been dated back to 2013.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) shared the results of their analysis on the evolution of Iran-linked threat actors at the CyberWarCon 2021. Learn more from this blog summarizing these trends, as presented at #CyberWarCon : [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2021.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. In December 2019, the APT group targeted several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement. In the period 2017-2021 this group implemented the most numerous cyberintelligence actions on various vectors of public administration.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 13, 2020

If you look at the military model, the military is constantly training. million cybersecurity jobs are projected to be available, but unfilled, by 2021, according to a widely cited report from Cybersecurity Ventures. When it comes to skilled cybersecurity analysts and technicians, there are far too few of them.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Russia-linked Nobelium APT group has breached at least 14 managed service providers (MSPs) and cloud service providers since May 2021. NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Over the past 20 months, the group targeted at least 30 organizations within 14 nations that are probably of strategic intelligence significance to the Russian government and its military. The group operates out of military unity 26165 of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

“Since mid-2021, Snatch threat actors have consistently evolved their tactics to take advantage of current trends in the cybercriminal space and leveraged successes of other ransomware variants’ operations. .” HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Dutch government will not tolerate ransomware attacks that could threaten national security, it will use intelligence or military services to curb them. The Dutch government announced that it will not tolerate cyberattacks that pose a risk to its national security and will employ intelligence or military services to counter them.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The document provides details about the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) associated with threar actors since the second half of 2021. The group operates out of military unity 26165 of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The group operates out of military unity 26165 of the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS). The researchers noticed that the attackers also commonly employed multiple known vulnerabilities, including CVE-2023-38831 in WinRAR or CVE-2021-40444 in Windows MSHTML.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

DataVault is an advanced encryption software to protect user data, it provides comprehensive military grade data protection and security features to multiple systems. ” The vulnerabilities have been tracked as CVE-2021-36750 and CVE-2021-36751. Multiple vendors, including WD, Sony and Lexar use the DataVault software.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2021

Colonial Pipeline discloses a data breach of the personal information of thousands of individuals after the ransomware attack that took place in May 2021. On May 6, 2021, an unauthorized third party acquired certain records stored in our systems,” states the letter.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The French cyber-security agency ANSSI said that the Russia-linked Nobelium APT group has been targeting French organizations since February 2021. Le CERT-FR vient de publier un rapport sur des campagnes d’hameçonnage du mode opératoire d’attaquants Nobelium contre des entités françaises menées depuis février 2021.

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IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. They’ll review the breach, mitigate the damage and ensure that you are up and running again as soon as possible. Find out more.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 28, 2024

military scattered radio-signals and added noise to radio transmissions — to prevent the jamming of torpedo controls. Dispersive launched in 2021 to adapt these same concepts to protecting sensitive network transmissions in a highly dynamic environment. For historical context, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

APT37 has been active since at least 2012, it mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. The watering hole attacks on the Daily NK was conducted from March 2021 until early June 2021. ” reads the post published by Volexity. com to malicious subdomains of jquery[.]services.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2023

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 Recorded Future’s Insikt Group believes that the campaign has been active since November 2021.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2021

The first name was John Chris Inglis, who was nominated as the first-ever National Cyber Director, a role that was introduced by Congress in the Fiscal Year 2021. Easterly has worked in the cybersecurity division at Morgan Stanley for the past four years, she has served 14 years in government and military service.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Some info for people who got the warning and a reminder what it means: [link] and also in this — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) October 7, 2021. — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) October 7, 2021. TAG sent a above average batch of government-backed security warnings yesterday.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

Experts found similarities between the infection chain associated with this campaign, tracked as Asylum Ambuscade, and other attacks Proofpoint observed in July 2021, a circumstance that suggests they were conducted by the same threat actor. net) that appears to belong to a compromised Ukranian armed service member.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

On March 2nd, Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported MS Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild.

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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. billion “anomalies” from 2019 to August 2021, according to the report shared by Taiwan’s defence ministry. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2021

Most targeted sectors have been Government/Military (17% of all exploit attempts), followed by Manufacturing (14%), and then Banking (11%). Well, I'll say that the ProxyLogon Exchange CVE-2021-26855 Exploit is completely out of the bag by now. pic.twitter.com/ijOGx3BIif — Will Dormann (@wdormann) March 13, 2021.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

[link] — Freedom of the Press (@FreedomofPress) January 4, 2021. He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010. Let’s close with the comment of the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden : Holy s**t [link] — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) January 4, 2021. Of course, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2021

The campaign monitored by Microsoft was uncovered in January 2021 and evolved over time, the researchers observed a series of waves demonstrating significant experimentation. If the target is an Apple iOS device, the user was redirected to another server under NOBELIUM control, that attempts to trigger the CVE-2021-1879 flaw.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Google announced to have sent roughly 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or hacking attempts to customers during 2021. “So far in 2021, we’ve sent over 50,000 warnings, a nearly 33% increase from this time in 2020. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure. agencies fear the possibility that these actors could gain access to the networks of critical infrastructure to cause disruptive effects in the event of potential geopolitical tensions and/or military conflicts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

During the recent video conference of the members of the European Council (25-26 February 2021), NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg highlighted the importance to define a strategy to boost defense and security. “The EU efforts are going hand in hand with the military efforts across the continent,” said Stoltenberg.

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