Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2021

The Operation Transparent Tribe (Operation C-Major, APT36, and Mythic Leopard) was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of cyber espionage operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. ” read the analysis published Cisco Talos.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Gamaredon Group is a Cyber Espionage persistent operation attributed to Russians FSB ( Federal Security Service ) in a long-term military and geo-political confrontation against the Ukrainian government and more in general against the Ukrainian military power. . Information about first SFX archive. cmd” and “28847”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Italian Military Personnel and National Association of Professional Educators. MassaCarrara Web Archives. Administrator Username & Password To Access Archive: [link]. State Archive of Palermo. Archive Administrative Usernames & Password: [link]. Leaked Archive: [link]. State Archives S.I.A.S.

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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

JULY 31, 2022

The attackers said that the stolen data includes information about the employees of the company involved in military projects, commercial activities, contract agreements and correspondence with other companies. Adrastea said that they have found critical vulnerabilities in the company infrastructure and have stolen 60 GB of confidential data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The attackers attempted to trick victims into downloading and decompress a ZIP archive (Cross-Platform Bridges.zip) containing the malicious Python code masqueraded by an arbitrage bot. log – SUGARLOADER Stage 3 (Loader)- Discord (fake) – HLOADER Stage 4 (Payload) – KANDYKORN Decompressing the archive, it reveals a Main.py

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

GB archive called “STRATEGICPLANNINGpart62.zip” Maze operators were very active during the past months, they have also stolen data from US military contractor Westech and the ST Engineering group , and they have released credit card data stolen from the Bank of Costa Rica (BCR) threatening to leak other lots every week.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2024

The compromise of networks associated with Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence and European railway systems could allow attackers to gather intelligence to influence battlefield tactics and broader military strategies. Insikt Group speculated the operation was aimed at influencing regional and military dynamics.

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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

JUNE 15, 2023

The Gamaredon APT group (aka Shuckworm, Actinium, Armageddon, Primitive Bear, UAC-0010, and Trident Ursa) continues to carry out attacks against entities in Ukraine, including security services, military, and government organizations. The attack chain commences with spear-phishing emails with malicious attachments (.docx,rar,sfx

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The folder included data archives ranging in size from 27 megabytes to 82 gigabytes. Experts at InfoArmor discovered that one of the archive contained data related to Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPFs), personal information, military info, telephone, loans, and addresses. . ” reads the report published by InfoArmor.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The attacks were spotted while analyzing network artifacts associated with RomComRAT infections resulting from attacks targeting Ukrainian military institutions. In the KeePass RomCom campaign threat actors distributed an archive named “KeePass-2.52.zip” ” reads the report published by BlackBerry.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

The ColdRiver APT (aka “ Seaborgium “, “Callisto”, “Star Blizzard”, “TA446”) is a Russian cyberespionage group that has been targeting government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since at least 2015.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The group targeted multiple industries, including governments, telecom, aerospace, energy, financial institutions, nuclear research, oil and gas, military, transportation, and companies developing encryption technologies. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, backdoor).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

The recently patched vulnerability affecting the popular archiver utility WinRAR has been exploited to deliver new malware to targeted users. The flaw is an “Absolute Path Traversal” issue in the library that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code by using a specially-crafted file archive.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Russia-linked Gamaredon cyberespionage group has been targeting Ukrainian targets, including diplomats, government and military officials. Russia linked APT group tracked as Gamaredon has been targeting several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement. The Gamaredon group.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

Back in December, the SolarWinds supply chain attack made the headlines when a Russian cyber espionage group tampered with updates for SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management products that the IT company provides to government agencies, military, and intelligence offices. ” reads the incident report published by mimecast.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2019

During recent times, Gamaredon is targeting the Ukrainian military and law enforcement sectors too, as officially stated by the CERT-UA. The infection chain is composed by different stages of password protected SFX (self extracting archive), each containing vbs or batch scripts. Technical Analysis. Malicious e-mail. scr” extension.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2019

The discovered attack appears to be designed to lure military personnel: it leverage a legit document of the “State of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” dated back in the 2nd April 2019. Actually, the file is a Self Extracting Archive (SFX) claiming to be part of some Oracle software with an invalid signature. exe::6start “” “%fnQWAZC%.exe”If

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

The messages use an archive named “501_25_103.zip”, In past campaigns, the group targeted a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe. zip”, which contains a shortcut file. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

In January 2022, researchers at Kaspersky ICS CERT uncovered a series of targeted attacks on military industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and East Europe. China-linked threat actors targeted dozens of industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and Europe.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

GB archive containing 75,000 files, emails and disk images from CorpMSP. GB archive containing 31,990 emails from LLC Capital. According to NB65, the 9GB of files included client contracts and image files of the Ministry of Defense contracts. The Anonymous-linked group leaked a 482.5 Anonymous leaked a 20.4

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

APT37 has been active since at least 2012, it mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. Spawn a thread to recursively search a path and upload files as a ZIP archive. The watering hole attacks on the Daily NK was conducted from March 2021 until early June 2021. services. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Fancy Bear APT group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. It also contains an embedded ZIP archive that the macros dropped and extracted.” The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. The backdoor deploys an SFX archive containing a Windows task installation script.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. Introduction. The macro creates two folders inside %PROGRAMDATA% path, “ systemidleperf ” and “ SppExtComTel ”.

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Unwritten Record

MAY 19, 2020

Photographs of Native Americans can be found throughout the holdings of the National Archives in many record groups and series. In this blog post I will highlight some of the late 19th and early 20th century photographs that are located in the series 111-SC, Photographs of American Military Activities, ca.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

A 2006 document from the Snowden archives outlines successful NSA operations against "a number of "high potential" virtual private networks, including those of media organization Al Jazeera, the Iraqi military and internet service organizations, and a number of airline reservation systems.".

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Government employees, military and civilian citizens who had accounts on official government portals of France ( gouv.fr ), Hungary ( gov.hu ) and Croatia ( gov.hr ) became victims of this data compromise. The infection came from a malware included as an email attachment disguised as a legitimate file or archive.

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Unwritten Record

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is well known for preserving the first written records of our nation. The oldest known government-produced film in our holdings is First Army Aeroplane Flight, Fort Myer, Virginia , which captured daring test flights of the Wright Military Flyer. At that time, the U.S.

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Preservica

JULY 26, 2018

The world’s largest grassroots human rights organization will use Preservica’s active digital preservation platform to create a global archive that will accelerate investigations into human rights violations and protect digital records of significant historical importance to the global movement. Oxford, UK and Boston, MA.

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The Schedule

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This testimonial about the intersections of archives and records management comes from Elizabeth McGorty, Archivist & Records Manager for Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation. Architectural drawings are considered both a corporate record (as defined by our policies) and material of archival value.

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here in the Still Picture Branch at the National Archives, we have many photographs within our holdings that show many different ways that breakfast has been consumed throughout history. Take a look below at some of the various images found when searching the National Archives Catalog for different terms.

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Unwritten Record

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Genausts film footage was used in civilian and military newsreels, military training films, popular documentaries, and, more recently, to help identify the soldiers’ identities in Rosenthals photograph. Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima Forensic Film Archiving: Who Raised the Flag on Iwo Jima?

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Unwritten Record

AUGUST 20, 2024

This post was created in collaboration with Hilda Gitchell, Archives Technician in the Still Picture Branch Local ID: 90-G-23A-575 As the summer winds down and we brace ourselves for a transition to cooler (albeit still humid) weather, we would like to say goodbye and good riddance to a constant presence in most outdoor summer plans: the mosquito.

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Archives Blogs

APRIL 9, 2020

Just as digitization will improve the processing and access of these records to qualify individuals for benefits based on their military service, so it will support public access for the open analysis of historically significant military actions and activities as recommended by the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB).

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Archives Blogs

MARCH 31, 2020

The National Archives is committed to the health and safety of our visitors and staff, and we continue to do our part to prevent the spread of COVID-19. National Archives Building, Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC. NPRC’s holdings include medical records and patient clinical records from military hospitals across the world.

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