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Russia-linked APT TAG-70 targets European government and military mail servers exploiting Roundcube XSS

Security Affairs

The nation-state actors are known to carry out cyber-espionage against targeting government, military, and national infrastructure entities in Europe and Central Asia since at least December 2020. “TAG70 has demonstrated a high level of sophistication in its attack methods.

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Cisco addressed Webex flaws used to compromise German government meetings

Security Affairs

Cisco addressed vulnerabilities that were exploited to compromise the Webex meetings of the German government. In early May, German media outlet Zeit Online revealed that threat actors exploited vulnerabilities in the German government’s implementation of the Cisco Webex software to access internal meetings.

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Russia-linked hackers target Ukrainian military with Infamous Chisel Android malware

Security Affairs

Russia-linked threat actors have been targeting Android devices of the Ukrainian military with a new malware dubbed Infamous Chisel. The GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and agencies in the United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand have published an analysis of the Android malware.

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UK Ministry of Defense disclosed a third-party data breach exposing military personnel data 

Security Affairs

The Ministry of Defence revealed that a malign actor gained access to part of the Armed Forces payment network, which is an external system completely separate to MOD’s core network. Defence Secretary Grant Shapps told House of Commons that the impacted system is not connected to the main military HR system. ” states the BBC. .”

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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

Krebs on Security

as members of the PLA’s 54 th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. Attorney General Bill Barr said at a press conference today that the Justice Department doesn’t normally charge members of another country’s military with crimes (this is only the second time the agency has indicted Chinese military hackers).

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A new piece of Ryuk Stealer targets government, military and finance sectors

Security Affairs

A new piece of the Ryuk malware has been improved to steal confidential files related to the military, government, financial statements, and banking. Targeted keywords in the new variant of the Ryuk stealer confirm that attackers are looking for confidential information in military, banking, finance and law enforcement.

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New HiatusRAT campaign targets Taiwan and U.S. military procurement system

Security Affairs

military procurement system. Threat actors leveraged edge routers, or “living on the edge” access, to passively collect traffic and set up a covert C2 infrastructure. Threat actors leveraged edge routers, or “living on the edge” access, to passively collect traffic and set up a covert C2 infrastructure. 57 155.138.213[.]169