Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Horizon3 security researchers have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit and technical analysis for the critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-22972 affecting multiple VMware products. VMware did not provide technical details about the flaw, then Horizon3 researchers performed an analysis of the patch. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

A sophisticated threat actor, tracked as Earth Lusca, is targeting government and private organizations worldwide as for financial purposes. ”reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. However, the group still primarily relies on tried-and-true techniques to entrap a target,” concludes the analysis.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The malware was used in attacks against multiple industries, including education, real estate, retail, non-profit organizations, telecom companies, and governments. The analysis of the C2 infrastructure revealed that it dates back to 2020.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

“In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group ’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. Investments in journalist security and education must be accompanied by efforts to regulate the sale, transfer, and use of surveillance technology.”

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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. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.” ” reads the joint advisory. mstsc.exe A native tool that establishes an RDP connection to a host.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

” states the analysis published by FireEye. The groups targeted organizations in the business services, financial, health, retail/consumer, aero-military, engineering and manufacturing, government, education, transportation, and utilities industries.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The group is very sophisticated and used zero-day exploits and complex malware to conduct targeted attacks against governments and organizations in almost every industry, including financial, energy, telecommunications, and education, aerospace. ” reads the analysis. “The described installation technique is unique.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Initially the municipal government in the town downplayed the incident, saying that attackers stole only a small amounts of data and that all the information had been restored from backup copies. The threat actors compromised some administrative servers and exfiltrated sensitive documents.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

A deeper analysis of some of these samples revealed that they were compiled in 2014 and used in the wild between 2014 and 2015. reads the analysis published by Symantec. According to the firm, the US cyber spies are targeting various industry sectors and government agencies.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Microsoft revealed that Russia-linked cyberespionage groups are behind the majority of the nation-state cyber attacks on US government agencies. Microsoft revealed that most of the cyber attacks on US government agencies are orchestrated by Russia-linked cyberespionage groups. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The group has continued launching attacks against entities in Southeast Asia, including military, satellite communications, media and educational organizations. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. The Thrip group has been active since 2013, but this is the first time Symantec publicly shared details of its activities.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2023

The operation targeted many organizations in critical infrastructure sectors, including financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation. organizations since 2020. law enforcement). According to the French ANSSI cybersecurity agency, LockBit 3.0

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“From our analysis of WS_FTP, we found that there are about 2.9k Most of these online assets belong to large enterprises, governments and educational institutions.” ” continues Assetnote. hosts on the internet that are running WS_FTP (and also have their webserver exposed, which is necessary for exploitation).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

In recent years, the researchers observed the group expanding its operations to include financial institutions and government entities. ” reads the analysis published by Unit 42. Analysis of the C2 for a second Sword2033 sample revealed that the domain *.saspecialforces.co[.]za org over port 8443 for C2.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Data were left unsecured online on a misconfigured Elasticsearch server, exposed data includes full PII, marital status and date of marriage, level of education, financial info, and more. . Security experts at vpnMentor have discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2022

Microsoft spotted a new destructive malware operation targeting government, non-profit, and IT entities in Ukraine. Microsoft spotted a destructive attack that targeted government, non-profit, and IT entities in Ukraine with a wiper disguised as ransomware. ” reported Reuters. ” concludes Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Most of the victims of the campaign are education, government, and healthcare organizations, as well as human rights activists and journalists. ” reads the analysis published by ESET. ESET reported that the Sponsor backdoor was deployed to at least 34 victims in Brazil, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2019

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. Group-IB Threat Intelligence team identified hundreds of compromised credentials from Singaporean government agencies and educational institutions over the course of 2017 and 2018.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

UK intelligence agency GCHQ, as part of the celebration of its centenary , has released emulators for World War II cipher machines that can be executed in the encryption app CyberChef released for educational purposes. We even tested them against the real thing! According to the GCHQ, CodeChef runs in Chrome and Firefox.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team reported that the China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool Google Command and Control ( GC2 ) in an attack against an unnamed Taiwanese media organization. China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool GC2 in an attack against a Taiwanese media organization.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A cyber espionage group targets governments and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries since early 2021. Threat actors are targeting government and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries as parts of a cyber espionage campaign that remained under the radar since early 2021.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

Russia-linked threat actors launched large-volume phishing campaigns against hundreds of users in Ukraine to gather intelligence and aimed at spreading disinformation, states Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). ” reads the report published by the Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The analysis of the hacked server revealed that it had all ColdFusion updates installed, except for the CVE-2018-15961 fix. ” continues the analysis. The servers belong to state government, educational, healthcare, and humanitarian aid organizations and each of them had been defaced or presented attempts to upload a webshell.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware. Related: Cyber espionage is in a Golden Age.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG. In one case, the group posed as a journalist for a South Korean news agency and sent benign emails with an interview request to North Korea experts.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

and foreign government organizations. and foreign government organizations, education entities, private companies, and health agencies by unidentified cyber actors.” Last week, the FBI has issued a new security flash alert to warn of Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S. reads the alert. public health organization.

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Collibra

JUNE 27, 2024

Healthcare executives are doubting whether their returns on AI investments will materialize, highlighting the importance of risk assessment and impact analysis. UCLA Health is at the forefront of AI innovation in healthcare and has partnered with Collibra to bring clear, accessible AI governance to all levels of its organization.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

“QuaDream Ltd (קוודרים בע”מ) is an Israeli company that specialises in the development and sale of advanced digital offensive technology to government clients. The victims were identified using a set of indicators of compromise based on an analysis of samples shared with Citizen Lab by Microsoft Threat Intelligence.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The Royal group began reconnaissance activity in April 2023, and the analysis of system log data dates the beginning of the surveillance operations on April 7, 2023. Between April 7, 2023, and May 4, 2023, Royal performed data exfiltration and ransomware delivery preparation activities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The STRONTIUM APT group (aka APT28 , Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , and Sednit ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Sonatype has discovered more malware in the npm registry which, following our analysis and multiple cyber threat intelligence reports, has led to the discovery of a novel and large scale malware campaign leveraging the open-source ecosystem. It is worth noting xpc.js What is xpc.js and what does it do? About the author: Ax Sharma.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. 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

JANUARY 13, 2023

The attacks started in March 2022 and targeted government and critical infrastructure organizations. Interestingly, NoName057(16) makes attempts to teach their followers through educational content such as explaining basic industry jargon and attack concepts.” ” reads the analysis published by SentinelOne.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In June 2021, the Nigerian government officially placed an indefinite ban on Twitter , restricting it from operating in Nigeria after the social media platform deleted tweets by the Nigerian president. KrebsOnSecurity spoke with a fraud investigator who is performing the forensic analysis of the devices seized from Medayedupin’s home.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. ” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro. similarities in blocks, and 98.9% similarity in functions, 99.3%

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

PowGoop appears to have been employed in attacks aimed at governments, education, oil and gas, real estate, technology, and telecoms organizations in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Iraq, Israel, Georgia, Turkey, and Vietnam.

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Collibra

JANUARY 9, 2024

In today’s world, data drives many of the decisions made by federal and state government agencies. High-quality data about vaccine supplies and population densities can lead to a successful distribution strategy, saving lives and strengthening public trust in the government’s response to the crisis.

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