Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A stealthy APT group tracked as Gelsemium was observed targeting a Southeast Asian government between 2022 and 2023. Palo Alto Unit42 researchers an APT group tracked as Gelsemium targeting a Southeast Asian government. The experts tracked the cluster as CL-STA-0046, the malicious activity spanned over six months between 2022-2023.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

The US Department of Justice has indicted a hacker named Fxmsp for hacking over three hundred organizations worldwide and selling access to their networks. The US Department of Justice has indicted a hacker that goes online with the moniker Fxmsp for hacking over three hundred organizations worldwide and selling access to their networks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts at Flashpoint discovered the availability of the access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo. A new report published by researchers at Flashpoint revealed the availability on an underground hacking forum for Russian-speaking users of access to over 3,000 breached websites.

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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

APRIL 6, 2021

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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The group managed to maintain access without being detected for as long as possible. In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. and Guam without being detected.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What is Information Governance, and Why is it Important? There are many benefits to constructing an Information Governance program plan. How to Avoid Information Governance Pitfalls. How to Avoid/Overcome: Overcome this issue by addressing objections directly with good communication and contextual education. Conclusion.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

. “Urgent action was taken to prevent the attacker’s access” Maerens said. . In early May , a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack hit most of the Belgium government ’s IT network, according to the media the attack also knocked offline internal systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

CISA published an advisory on China-linked groups targeting government agencies by exploiting flaws in Microsoft Exchange, Citrix, Pulse, and F5 systems. Chinese state-sponsored hackers have probed US government networks looking for vulnerable networking devices that could be compromised with exploits for recently disclosed vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2021

A new Trojan written in the Go programming language, tracked as ChaChi, was involved in ransomware attacks against government agencies and US schools. “These actors are utilizing advanced knowledge of enterprise networking and security misconfigurations to achieve lateral movement and gain access to the victim’s environments.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2024

Iran-linked group APT33 used new Tickler malware in attacks against organizations in the government, defense, satellite, oil and gas sectors. The group also relied on social engineering efforts in attacks against organizations in the higher education, satellite, and defense sectors through LinkedIn.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.” reads the joint advisory.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

and foreign government organizations. and foreign government organizations. and foreign government organizations, education entities, private companies, and health agencies by unidentified cyber actors.” The FBI has issued a security alert about Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2025

Microsoft reported that China-linked APT group Silk Typhoon has shifted tactics to target IT solutions like remote management tools and cloud apps for initial access. Though not directly attacking Microsoft cloud services, they exploit unpatched apps to escalate privileges and gain access to customer networks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The online education platform for developers Thinkful suffered a security breach and is notifying the incident to its customers requiring them to reset their passwords. Thinkful confirmed that an unauthorized user was able to gain access to employee accounts credentials. ” reads the data breach notification sent by the company.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.” reads the joint advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.” reads the joint advisory.

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OpenText Information Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

But before then, we’ll be sharing proprietary research from the upcoming State of Secure Information Management where we explore strategies to enable secure access and protect sensitive data. This presents an opportunity for education and training programs in the industry.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

The attacks were observed as recently as February 2024, they targeted government, education, emergency services, healthcare, and other critical infrastructure sectors. Threat actors behind Phobos attacks were observed gaining initial access to vulnerable networks by leveraging phishing campaigns. ” reads the joint CSA.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. VPNs, RDPs) to gain initial access to the target network and maintain persistence. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

Just recently, the group has published a stolen data allegedly belonging to the Mexican Government which still remains available for sale today, and possibly becoming the first cybercriminal group that has touched a major state in Latin America on such a level. Mexican Government data is published for sale. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The list was published with the intent of raising awareness of common hardware weaknesses through CWE and educating designers and programmers on how to address them as part of the product development lifecycle. . The list includes a total of 12 vulnerabilities entries that had a score from 1.03 to 1.42 (the highest possible score was 2.0).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now available for Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers. Google announced that Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) is now available for all Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. “A hacker is someone who gains unauthorized access to information or content. On Wednesday, the St.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 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. This tool modifies a JavaScript constraints file and executes it with SYSTEM-level permissions.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

authoring agencies have recently observed indications of Volt Typhoon actors maintaining access and footholds within some victim IT environments for at least five years,” reads the alert. “the U.S. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

Government agencies revealed that Akira ransomware has breached over 250 entities worldwide and received over $42 million in ransom payments. The cybersecurity researchers observed threat actors obtaining initial access to organizations through a virtual private network (VPN) service without multifactor authentication (MFA) configured.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

The CVE-2022-22972 flaw affects Workspace ONE Access, VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), and vRealize Automation. VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting local domain users.” reads the advisory published by the company. “A Searching on Shodan.io

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2024

Attackers have also defaced websites and leaked data to launch influence campaigns against India’s government leaders, said researchers. The compromised credentials could have been obtained by intercepting login forms on popular Internet browsers or by accessing password storage on compromised devices.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

In each incident, the intruders have left behind a “web shell,” an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser. The web shell gives the attackers administrative access to the victim’s computer servers. based Volexity for reporting the vulnerabilities.

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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. ” concludes the report.

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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. This tool modifies a JavaScript constraints file and executes it with SYSTEM-level permissions.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

” Anyone can request access to the data by compiling this form. According to the summary findings related to the period 2013-2020, the most targeted critical infrastructures are government facilities, followed by education and healthcare. .” reads the project description. “This repository (version 10.2)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The Government organization disclosed a data breach that impacted about 1.3 The software vulnerability was exploited by a group of cybercriminals and allowed them to access and download files belonging to certain agencies in the State of Maine between May 28, 2023, and May 29, 2023.” million individuals. percent, Canada-based 2.6

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It appears that some as-yet-unidentified party or parties gained unauthorized access to at least one of our servers. Threat actors gained access to the network of the company and stole some data from its systems. “We had previously announced on August 10, 2023, about the unauthorized access to our servers (*).

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2022

Yet, there’s still work to be done to make this path more accessible and known among the veteran and transitioning military community. Fundamentally, cybersecurity professionals identify weaknesses and design systems and processes to protect any organization — government agencies, private companies — from cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Today Canadian Minister Responsible for Digital Transformation and Access to Information Eric Caire confirmed the decision of the government to shut down the sites that are being scanned for potentially malicious purposes resulting from the exploitation of the Log4Shell flaw.

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