Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Croatia government agencies have been targeted by unknown hackers with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. A mysterious group of hackers carried out a series of cyber attacks against Croatian government agencies, infecting employees with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. ” reads one of the alerts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education, government, and business services sectors. The most impacted sectors are education, government, and business services. The Powershell is used to retrieve a ZIP archive containing NetSupport RAT that. implacavelvideos[.]com).

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2022

The #OpRussia launched by Anonymous on Russia after the criminal invasion of Ukraine continues, the collective claims to have hacked multiple organizations and government entities. The collective has released a 130 GB archive via DDoSecrets that contains nearly 116,500 emails. Achinsk City Government. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Stayin’ Alive, targeted high-profile government and telecom entities in Asia. The threat actors leverage spear-phishing emails to deliver archive files utilizing DLL side-loading schemes. appeared first on Security Affairs. Is it linked to ToddyCat APT?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , has detected more than 40 000 compromised user credentials of online government services in 30 countries around the world. Group-IB Threat Intelligence has detected government websites’ user accounts compromised by cyber criminals in 30 countries.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2022

Ukraine CERT-UA published a security advisory to warn of spear-phishing attacks conducted by Russia-linked Armageddon APT (aka Gamaredon , Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) targeting local state organizations. The group targeted government and military organizations in Ukraine. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AIIM

AUGUST 10, 2021

The information flow is complicated, and the governance implications are substantial. Every aspect of content flow and collaboration – including Microsoft Teams and its information—must be integral to the organization’s approach to information governance. What is your existing Information Governance strategy?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 319 appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2022

B00da and Porteur leaked a 1T archive containing data and emails from the law firm. Anonymous has leaked a 823 GB archive containing 1.5 B00da , Porteur , and Wh1t3 Sh4d0w leaked a 184 GB archive containing company emails. All their biggest government websites are #Offline. million emails. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A first cluster composed of 69 fake accounts, part of these accounts were used to amplify narratives that were aligned with the politics of the Russian government, while a second subset was focused on undermining faith in the NATO alliance and its stability. ” Today we’re adding new data to our archive of information operations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

The threat actors shared a portion of the stolen data with TechCrunch as proof of the hack, it includes records on current and former government officials, diplomats, and politically exposed people. The disclosure of data in the archive poses a threat to the individuals whose data it contains. LSEG acquired Refinitiv is 2021.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2022

The group breached the systems of the company and released 62,000 emails (a 52GB archive) through DDoSecrets. Anonymous also claimed the hack of a website of the Government of Belarus related to the Economy of Volozhin, a Belarusian city in the Minsk region. Vinokurov is the son-in-law of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2020

Threat actors employed the previously-undetected PoetRAT Trojan in a Coronavirus-themed campaign aimed at government and energy sectors. . docx,” they claim to be from departments from the Azerbaijan government and India’s Ministry of Defense. . ” reads the analysis published by Cisco Talos.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The personal and health details of more than 16 million Brazilian COVID-19 patients, including Government representatives, have been exposed online. An employee of Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paolo has uploaded a spreadsheet containing usernames, passwords, and access keys to sensitive government systems on GitHub.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

“On October 30th Deep Instinct identified two archives hosted on “Storyblok” containing a new multi-stage infection vector.” ” Upon extracting the archive, several folders must be navigated until a LNK shortcut appearing as another folder named “Attachments.” . ” reads the report published by Deep Instinct.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In addition, the government seized the domain names for two popular anonymity services that were heavily advertised on Cracked and Nulled and allowed customers to rent virtual servers: StarkRDP[.]io Those archived webpages show both RDP services were owned by an entity called 1337 Services Gmbh. io , and rdp[.]sh.

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Gimmal

JANUARY 8, 2025

AI Governance vs. Data Governance: Understanding the Differences and Opportunities Written by In our current rapidly evolving technological landscape, enterprises are collecting, analyzin g, and lev eraging unprecedented amounts of data. YouTube Video: What is AI governance? What is AI Governance? What is AI Governance?

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Justin Bieber), government officials, and employees at some of the major tech companies. The hacker claims to have obtained the database from the hack of the DataViper monitoring service operated by the security firm Night Lion Security. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2021

Ukraine warned of a “massive” spear-phishing campaign carried out by Russia-linked threat actors against its government and private businesses. This is the third massive spear-phishing campaign that the Ukrainian government attributed to Russia-linked threat actors this year. Details in the application… ».

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2022

The collective vows to release more data belonging to Russian businesses and government, organizations including a commercial bank. Anonymous vows to release more data belonging to Russian entities and government, including a commercial bank. The collective has leaked a 432GB archive containing 645,000 emails.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2022

Anonymous claims to have stolen 426,000 emails and leaked an archive of 160 GB in size. Anonymous claims to have stolen 15,600 emails and leaked an archive of 9.5 It was leaked now in response to the Belarusian government taking control of the system. GUOV i GS – General Dept. GB in size. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Security duo discovered personal and social information 1.2 The archive contained nearly 3 billion PDL user records associated with roughly 1.2 The archive included 650 million unique email addresses, the data belonging the three different PDL indexes were respectively scraped from LinkedIN (i.e. billion unique people.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

A previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ has been targeting military and government entities since 2018. Bitdefender researchers discovered a previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ that has been targeting military and government entities since 2018.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Turla).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The memo also reveals that the company has hired an external security firm to investigate the incident. GB archive called “STRATEGICPLANNINGpart62.zip” “We identified a security incident involving ransomware on August 4, 2020.” The gang has published a 2.2 ” reads the statement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2022

This week a Hensholdt spokesperson confirmed the security breach to BleepingComputer explaining that a small number of mobile devices in its UK subsidiary has been affected. Hensoldt AG focuses on sensor technologies for protection and surveillance missions in the defence, security and aerospace sectors. billion euros in 2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

The phishing messages use a RAR-archive named “Saboteurs.rar”, which contains RAR-archive “Saboteurs 21.03.rar.” “The archive contains documents and images of the bait, as well as VBScript code (Thumbs.db), which will create and run the.NET program “dhdhk0k34.com.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

DoppelPaymer operators have published a page titled “City of Torrance, CA” that contains numerous leaked file archives. “Based on the names of the archives, this data includes city budget financials, various accounting documents, document scans, and an archive of documents belonging to the City Manager.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2022

The government CERT started observing this campaign on March 17, 2022, threat actors launched spear-phishing attacks using malicious. The archive contains an obfuscated.NET program, experts tracked it as DoubleZero and the analysis revealed it was developed to destroy the infected system. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

After being informed about this ransomware attack, security researchers confirmed that the Netwalker ransomware operators were behind the attack. GB archive. Recently the FBI has issued a security alert about Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S. and foreign government organizations. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

Those behind such COVID-related campaigns target government organizations and private companies. Cybercriminals have used the following file extensions to deliver malware samples: gz,ace,arj, and.rar, three of which are archive formats. Most of the emails detected were in English. Hacker underground split over coronavirus.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2023

CDW Corporation is a provider of technology solutions and services for business, government and education. A secondary division of the company, known as CDW-G , focuses on United States governmental entities, including as K-12 schools, universities, non-profit healthcare organizations, State & Local and the Federal government.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2022

The attackers are using multiple different payloads to establish persistence on the infected systems and to be resilient to takedown operations conducted by security firms and government experts. The Pterodo variant employed in the attacks is a modified self-extracting archive, which contains obfuscated VBScripts that act as a dropper.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Researchers from Dutch security firm Hunt & Hackett observed Sea Turtle cyber espionage group (aka Teal Kurma, Marbled Dust, SILICON and Cosmic Wolf) targeting telco, media, ISPs, IT service providers, and Kurdish websites in the Netherlands. Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Suspected China-linked APT Earth Baxia targeted a government organization in Taiwan by exploiting a recently patched OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools flaw. Trend Micro researchers reported that China-linked APT group Earth Baxia has targeted a government organization in Taiwan and potentially other countries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2024

The government experts reported that the group carried out at least two massive campaigns since May 20, threat actors aimed at distributing SmokeLoader malware via email. The attackers sent out emails with ZIP archives containing an IMG files that serves as decoys for hidden EXE malware and ACCDB documents.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

A suspected China-linked APT group breached a digital certificate authority in Asia as part of a campaign aimed at government agencies since March 2022. “The victims in this campaign included a certificate authority, as well as government and defense agencies.” ” reads the report published by Symantec.

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