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Ukraine: Belarusian APT group UNC1151 targets military personnel with spear phishing

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Unlike other disinformation campaigns, GhostWriter doesn’t spread through social networks, instead, threat actors behind this campaign abused compromised content management systems (CMS) of news websites or spoofed email accounts to disseminate fake news. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Russian hackers defaced local British news sites

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“The operations have primarily targeted audiences in Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland with anti-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) narratives, often leveraging website compromises or spoofed email accounts to disseminate fabricated content, including falsified correspondence from military officials” reads the report published by FireEye.

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Ghostwriter disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO

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Unlike other disinformation campaigns, GhostWriter doesn’t spread through social networks, instead, threat actors behind this campaign abused compromised content management systems (CMS) of news websites or spoofed email accounts to disseminate fake news.

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Ghost Squad Hackers defaced a second European Space Agency (ESA) site in a week

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Their attempt to patch the vulnerability was a fail even after removing their CMS and adding a maintenance index we were still able to get access. ” According to the hackers, the ESA experts have yet to fix the problem, they only removed the installation of the CMS. ” the hackers told me. ” the hackers said. .

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 478 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Infosys McCamish Systems data breach impacted over 6 million people A cyberattack shut down the University Hospital Centre Zagreb in Croatia US announces a $10M reward for Russia’s GRU hacker behind attacks on Ukraine New P2Pinfect version delivers miners and ransomware on Redis servers New MOVEit Transfer critical bug is actively exploited New (..)

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German Parliament Bundestag targeted again by Russia-linked hackers

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The attackers are suspected to be hackers of the tracked as Ghostwriter group that works under the control of the Russian military secret service GRU. The messages were sent by threat actors to the private emails of the German politicians. “The Bundestag has again become the target of alleged Russian hackers.

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Mandiant links Ghostwriter operations to Belarus

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Unlike other disinformation campaigns, GhostWriter doesn’t spread through social networks, instead, threat actors behind this campaign abused compromised content management systems (CMS) of news websites or spoofed email accounts to disseminate fake news.

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