Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Security experts at vpnMentor’s discovered a breach in a database belonging to Autoclerk, a reservations management system owned by Best Western Hotels and Resorts Group. The list of affected users includes the US government, military, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). . ” . . ” continues vpnMento r.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group were spotted using new KandyKorn macOS malware in attacks against blockchain engineers, reported Elastic Security Labs. It utilizes reflective loading, a direct-memory form of execution that may bypass detections,” notes Elastic Security, which identified and analyzed the threat.”

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Security experts from Yoroy-Cybaze ZLab have conducted a detailed analysis of an implant used by the Gamaredon APT group in a recent campaign. It is distributed in a spear-phishing campaign with a weaponized office document that appears to be designed to lure military personnel. . Information about first SFX archive.

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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. The post Threat actor claims to have hacked European manufacturer of missiles MBDA appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

The memo also reveals that the company has hired an external security firm to investigate the incident. GB archive called “STRATEGICPLANNINGpart62.zip” The post Maze ransomware gang leaked Canon USA’s stolen files appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

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

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. The nation-state actor is carrying out spear-phishing attacks for cyberespionage purposes.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

National Security Agency (NSA) Equation Group. The Bvp47 backdoor was first discovered in 2013 while conducting a forensic investigation into a security breach suffered by a Chinese government organization. The post Researchers shared technical details of NSA Equation Group’s Bvp47 backdoor appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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

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

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In March 2018, security experts at InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers, or Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas (CPFs), for 120 million Brazilian nationals. The folder included data archives ranging in size from 27 megabytes to 82 gigabytes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. 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. The attackers breached dozens of enterprises and in some cases compromised their IT infrastructure, taking over systems used to manage security solutions.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 3, 2018

I have a Yahoo email account, I’ve shopped at Home Depot and Target , my father was in the military and had a security clearance, which included a dossier on his family, archived at the U.S. Related: Uber hack shows DevOps risk. In 2014, a JP Morgan Chase hack exposed 76 million households.

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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. ” concludes Anomaly.

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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 post NK-linked InkySquid APT leverages IE exploits in recent attacks appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Security experts at ESET have uncovered a new campaign carried out by Russia-linked Fancy Bear APT group aimed at political targets. Security researchers at ESET have uncovered a new campaign carried out by Russia-linked Fancy Bear APT group (i.e. It also contains an embedded ZIP archive that the macros dropped and extracted.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2019

Security researchers at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab uncovered a new campaign carried out by the Russian state-actor dubbed Gamaredon. 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. Introduction.

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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. The post Russia-linked InvisiMole APT targets state organizations of Ukraine appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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Archives Blogs

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The National Archives released 2,891 records on Thursday related to the assassination of President John F. Based on requests from executive offices and agencies the President has allowed the temporary withholding of certain information that would harm national security, law enforcement, or foreign affairs.

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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. The post Anonymous and Ukraine IT Army continue to target Russian entities appeared first on Security Affairs. The Anonymous-linked group leaked a 482.5 Anonymous leaked a 20.4 Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Schedule

AUGUST 9, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission. In the Other category, Digital Archives Specialist was most common. Jessika Drmacich spoke about her work with collaborative archiving of student records at Williams College and the vital role of relationship building. Krista Oldham is the University Archivist at Clemson University.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new backdoor, tracked as Titanium, that was used by the Platinum APT group in attacks in the wild, the malicious code implements sophisticated evasion techniques. The backdoor deploys an SFX archive containing a Windows task installation script. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

IT Governance found 73 publicly disclosed security incidents in August 2023, accounting for 79,729,271 breached records. It also breaks down each month’s cyber security incidents and provides more information about the biggest and most notable breaches of the month.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

He had been working on the Edward Snowden archive for a couple of months, and had a pile of more technical documents that he wanted help interpreting. I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. I tried to talk to Greenwald about his own operational security.

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Everteam

MARCH 14, 2019

The platform which was designed by Everteam, linked more than 180 government entities within the Kingdom in various sectors including civil and military bodies, institutions and companies. The overall progress includes managing and archiving documents with the application of security standards.

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Unwritten Record

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Photograph of the Wright Brothers’ Camp in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,” Records of the US Army Air Forces, Record Group 18, National Archives Local Identifier: 18-WP-48625. Orville and Wilbur spent the next five years perfecting their designs and securing a patent. military took renewed interest in the Wright’s machine.

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Unwritten Record

MAY 25, 2021

Photograph of Researcher in the Central Search Room of the National Archives Building. Moreover, sometimes you can track down the archival institution that houses a photo you found online or in a book by simply examining what markings you can find on it. Text reads: Federal Security Agency, U.S. 64-PR-20-1, NAID: 74228254.

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