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Facebook links cyberespionage group APT32 to Vietnamese IT firm

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The APT32 group has been active since at least 2012, it has targeted organizations across multiple industries and foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. Threat actors were contacting people of interest with romantic lures, they set up pages that were specifically designed to target followers with malware and phishing attacks.

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US Gov warns of BEC attacks to hijack shipments of food products

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US government is warning of business email compromise (BEC) attacks aimed at hijacking shipments of food products and ingredients. In BEC attacks threat actors usually aims at compromising email communications to hijack payments, this time the attacks target the food and agriculture sector with a different purpose.

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Israel announced to have foiled an attempted cyber-attack on defence firms

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The Israeli statement did not explicitly refer to the government of Pyongyang and did not provide details about the attack (the targeted companies, data of the attack). The attackers launched spear-phishing attacks against employees of the targeted firms, the messages impersonated managers, CEOs and leading officials in HR departments.

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New Bad Magic APT used CommonMagic framework in the area of Russo-Ukrainian conflict

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In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a malware campaign aimed at infecting government, agriculture and transportation organizations located in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea regions with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 365 by Pierluigi Paganini

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The LEGION collective calls to action to attack the final of the Eurovision song contest OpRussia update: Anonymous breached other organizations Pro-Russian hacktivists target Italy government websites SonicWall urges customers to fix SMA 1000 vulnerabilities Zyxel fixed firewall unauthenticated remote command injection issue Iran-linked COBALT MIRAGE (..)

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CISA, FBI, NSA warn of the increased globalized threat of ransomware

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Almost any sector was hit by sophisticated, high-impact ransomware attacks, including the Defense Industrial Base, Emergency Services, Food and Agriculture, Government Facilities, and Information Technology Sectors. Cybersecurity agencies from the U.K., ” reads the joint advisory.

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Watch out, ransomware attack risk increases on holidays and weekends, FBI and CISA

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The government agencies have observed an increase in ransomware attacks occurring on holidays and weekends, the choice of these period is motivated by the lower level of defense due to the reduced presence of the personnel. The FBI and CISA warn organizations to keep high their defenses against ransomware attacks during weekends or holidays.