Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The group targeted multiple sectors, including government, defense, energy, transportation/logistics, education, and humanitarian organizations. Google TAG also reported the malware-based attacks conducted by the group behind Cuba ransomware to distribute RomCom RAT in the networks of the Ukrainian government and military.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. On November 17, the library announced it was experiencing a major technology outage caused by a cyber-attack. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

German government warns that technology to regulate power consumption in Huawei network appliances could be used for sabotage purposes. government officials as well as European security authorities, which have warned of the risks associated with Chinese telecoms equipment.” The activity will be completed in the coming months.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Proofpoint researchers recently reported that a Russian hacking group, tracked as Winter Vivern (aka TA473), has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities ( CVE-2022-27926 ) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats. reads the post published by Proofpoint.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. manufacturers on behalf of Russian end-users, including defense contractors and other Russian government agencies.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2023

During the last week, private and government organizations in Israel were hit by massive cyber attacks that were part of the #OPIsrael campaign launched by hacktivists against Israeli critical infrastructure.

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erwin

APRIL 16, 2021

Data governance is best defined as the strategic, ongoing and collaborative processes involved in managing data’s access, availability, usability, quality and security in line with established internal policies and relevant data regulations. Data Governance Is Business Transformation. Predictability. Synchronicity. Maturity Levels.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2022

Fundamentally, cybersecurity professionals identify weaknesses and design systems and processes to protect any organization — government agencies, private companies — from cyberattacks. Many government and non-profit organizations like VetJobs and VetsinTech are doing just this. He is the author of The Shellcoder’s Handbook.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” continues the report. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

” reads the blog post published by OTORIO. This group also hit other American websites, including a governmental education website in Texas. The government urges to immediately change the passwords of control systems exposed online, ensure that their software is up to date, and reduce their exposure online.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This incident is the latest in a long line of cyber attacks on the education sector. It followed August’s ransomware attack on the education administrator Blackbaud , in which students’ phone numbers, donation history and events attendance were all compromised. Ransomware epidemic.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 21, 2021

On 22 September 2021, the UK Government (the “ Government ”) published its Artificial Intelligence (“ AI ”) strategy. The paper outlines the Government’s plan to make Britain a “global superpower” in the AI arena, and sets out an agenda to build the most “pro-innovation regulatory environment in the world”.

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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. This domain has been hosted on eight other IPs throughout its history, none of these IPs were directly affiliated with the South African government. saspecialforces.co[.]za za resolved to 196.216.136[.]139.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2023

Upon detecting network anomalies, the information department promptly activated relevant defense mechanisms and carried out recovery measures, and reported the incident to government law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity units.” ” reads a statement published by the company.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

In the last couple of years, other Israeli surveillance firms, like NSO Group and Candiru , made the headlines because their spyware was used by totalitarian regimes to spy on journalists, dissidents, and government opposition.

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Gimmal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Enter metadata—a powerful tool that can revolutionize your information governance strategy. Facilitate Compliance and Governance : Use metadata to automate records management processes, apply retention policies, and ensure regulatory compliance. A Visual Analogy Imagine walking down a supermarket aisle looking for soup.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

” The exposed information varied for each of the affected customers, it could include full name, contact information, account number and associated phone numbers, T-Mobile account PIN, social security number, government ID, date of birth, balance due, T-Mobile internal codes, and the number of lines. .”

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

government along with peers in Germany and Austria. . “Through the illegal operation of his websites, the defendant made at least $18 million in bitcoin (as well as an unknown amount through other payment systems), which he used to purchase a Ferrari, among other luxury items.”

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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. MSTIC will update this blog as we have additional information to share.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

“In October 2022, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) disrupted a campaign from HOODOO, a Chinese government-backed attacker also known as APT41, that targeted a Taiwanese media organization by sending phishing emails that contained links to a passwordprotected file hosted in Drive.”

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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. QuaDream reportedly sells a platform they call REIGN to governments for law enforcement purposes. ” reads the report published by Citizen Lab. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

According to the company, they have over 600,000 Cameras and 50,000 Recorders installed all over the world in multiple sectors such as Banking, Retail, Government, etc. ” reads the advisory published by Fortinet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm is behind destructive cyberattacks against Ukrainian state networks, the Ukrainian Government Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) warns. CERT-UA is warning of destructive cyberattacks conducted by the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group against the Ukraine public sector.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 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 alert.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Click to enlarge. PEACE HOSTING?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

but that recursive question raised a more general question: what are the differences between cybersecurity educational models? The education process is based upon the information to be shared, by meaning that information is the “starting brick” of education. The original post is available on Marco Ramilli’s blog: [link].

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

Mint Sandstorm targets both private and public organizations, including political dissidents, journalists, activists, the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), and employees from multiple government agencies, including individuals protesting oppressive regimes in the Middle East. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

Some of these installs belong to large corporations, small companies, government agencies, and universities. The researchers discovered that 2124 (~67%) out of 3176 instances were using one of the above four default keys. on April 5, 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

billion rubles. Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 414 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2019

Many in the security community leaped to his defense at the time, noting that the FBI’s case appeared flimsy and that Hutchins had worked tirelessly through his blog to expose cybercriminals and their malicious tools. “Once t[h]ings settle down I plan to focus on educational blog posts and livestreams again.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. government institutions, and about 250 Ukrainian victims. ” reads the joint advisory. ” continues the advisory.

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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

A digital identification tool provided by OCR Labs to major banks and government agencies leaked sensitive credentials, putting clients at severe risk. Its services are used by companies and financial institutions including BMW, Vodafone, the Australian government, Westpac, ANZ, HSBC, and Virgin Money.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

Taking note of the pervasive threat landscape, the US government has devoted more resources to building a team to protect citizens and businesses. Cyber attack instances are steeply rising across all sectors , leaving even the FBI to issue a bulletin about business email compromise (BEC) – the $43 billion scam.

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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. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. ” concludes Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 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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