Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2024

Terrorist groups are increasingly using cyberspace and digital communication channels to plan and execute attacks. Yesterday Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray expressed growing concerns over the potential for a coordinated foreign terrorist attack in the United States.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

The Federal Public Service Interior’s communications director, Olivier Maerens, confirmed that the attackers were not able to breach the server of the ministry, this means that threat actors did not steal any data. BELNET provides web services to higher education, federal departments and ministries, and international organizations.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Josh Renaud alerted Missouri education department officials that their website was exposing the Social Security numbers of more than 100,000 primary and secondary teachers in the state. Renaud found teachers’ SSNs were accessible in the HTML source code of some Missouri education department webpages.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The group also relies on customized versions of open-source tools for C2 communications and to stay under the radar.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Millions of SMS messages have been leaked by a database run by TrueDialog, a business SMS provider for businesses and higher education providers. Security experts at vpnMentor discovered a database belonging to the US communications company, TrueDialog that was leaking millions of SMS messages.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The group is very sophisticated and used zero-day exploits and complex malware to conduct targeted attacks against governments and organizations in almost every industry, including financial, energy, telecommunications, and education, aerospace. Then the DePriMon malware uses Schannel for the communication.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Always verify the authenticity of received communications. About the author: Salvatore Lombardo ( Twitter @Slvlombardo ) Electronics engineer and Clusit member, for some time now, espousing the principle of conscious education, he has been writing for several online magazine on information security.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to Microsoft, the campaign aimed at building capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region in the case of future crises. The group also relies on customized versions of open-source tools for C2 communications and stay under the radar.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The malware was used in attacks against multiple industries, including education, real estate, retail, non-profit organizations, telecom companies, and governments. The backdoor is written in.NET and leverages the domain name service (DNS) protocol to establish a covert communication channel with the command and control infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The DigitalOcean storage bucket, containing almost a million sensitive files, was left open to anyone without requiring authentication. According to the company’s website, more than half a million students and over a million parents use the platform.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

Attackers often exploit current events or emergency situations to elicit emotional responses and induce victims to act hastily without carefully evaluating the legitimacy of the communications. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2024

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The group also relies on customized versions of open-source tools for C2 communications and to stay under the radar.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How to Avoid/Overcome: Overcome this issue by addressing objections directly with good communication and contextual education. Vendor-neutral research, or case studies, can be valuable tools when communicating with internal decision-makers. How to Avoid/Overcome: Once again, consistent communication is essential.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

The Akira ransomware has been active since March 2023, the threat actors behind the malware claim to have already hacked multiple organizations in multiple industries, including education, finance, and real estate. Like other ransomware gangs, the group has developed a Linux encryptor to target VMware ESXi servers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through its Education Platform. European Commission has chosen the Signal app to secure its communications. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. FBI recommends using passphrases instead of complex passwords.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2024

The group targeted multiple industries, including media and communications, telecoms, technology, healthcare, and education and government entities. Trend Micro researchers observed the APT targeting countries like Italy, Germany, UAE, and Qatar, and the group is suspected to have targeted also entities in Georgia and Romania.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Capitalise on the expertise of the health CSIRTs for helping Operators of Essential Services (OES) develop their incident response capabilities by establishing sector-specific regulations, cooperation agreements, communication channels with OES, public-private partnerships, etc. ” concludes the report. ” [link]. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in government, education, and finance sectors. In this network with no single point-of-failure, peers constantly communicate with each other to keep the network alive, resilient and up-to-date.”

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2022

Twenty years ago, Saturday Night Live nailed a tendency in IT to be overly absorbed in tech-speak and to do a poor job of educating users. Security awareness training should incorporate tailored alerts and customized training or education to help users become more aware. Security Awareness Training Improvements Coming. “As

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Targeted Sector Vulnerabilities: Financial Services, IT, Healthcare, Education, and Government sectors have emerged as primary targets, with attackers fine-tuning their strategies to exploit specific vulnerabilities within these industries. About the Author: Stefanie Shank.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The bad actors claim to have stolen a significant volume of data, including CRM records, personal information, email communications, contracts, and account credentials. The same day, Justice Blade also set up a Telegram account with a private communications channel.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

The attacks were observed as recently as February 2024, they targeted government, education, emergency services, healthcare, and other critical infrastructure sectors. For communication purposes, Phobos actors employ diverse instant messaging applications such as ICQ, Jabber, and QQ.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2024

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The group also relies on customized versions of open-source tools for C2 communications and to stay under the radar.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Experts noticed that the system still allows communications on port 502, which is used for Modbus protocol, that doesn’t require any authentication/encryption. This group also hit other American websites, including a governmental education website in Texas. An attacker could easily interact with the system via Modbus.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I am writing to you from an old desktop computer in the tent of the chaplain who works on behalf of a refugee agency, because here there is no internet point or effective means of communication. […]. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

During that window, the actor successfully compromised at least nine global entities across the technology, defense, healthcare, energy and education industries.” “This design makes detection and prevention of the NGLite C2 communication channel difficult.” Subsequently, exploitation attempts began on Sept.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

. “The TrickBot executable will download the plugin and its configuration file (from one of the available online C&Cs) containing a list of servers with whom the plugin will communicate to retrieve commands to be executed. The module implements three attack modes, named check, trybrute and brute.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

According to Microsoft, the campaign aims at building capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region in the case of future crises. The group also relies on customized versions of open-source tools for C2 communications and stay under the radar.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself. “InfraGard is a social media intelligence hub for high profile persons,” USDoD said.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2019

Since early 2018, the cyberspies hit at least 13 organizations across 10 different countries: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of a Latin American country The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of a Middle Eastern country The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of a European country The Ministry of the Interior of a South Asian country Two unidentified government (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

XORDDoS, also known as XOR.DDoS , first appeared in the threat landscape in 2014 it is a Linux Botnet that was employed in attacks against gaming and education websites with massive DDoS attacks that reached 150 gigabytes per second of malicious traffic.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The group has continued launching attacks against entities in Southeast Asia, including military, satellite communications, media and educational organizations. The Thrip group has been active since 2013, but this is the first time Symantec publicly shared details of its activities. ” concludes the report. “Its

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

This campaign was carried out by threat actors impersonating an educational accreditation council to hit users in the United States. The attackers used decoy documents apparently coming from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), a US association representing social work education.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Below is the list of flaws exploited by the ransomware gang’s affiliate: CVE-2021-27876 : The communication between a client and an Agent requires successful authentication, which is typically completed over a secure TLS communication. The UNC4466 group relies on SOCKS5 tunneling to communicate with compromised systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

PingPull, was first spotted by Unit 42 in June 2022, the researchers defined the RAT as a “difficult-to-detect” backdoor that leverages the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for C2 communications. Experts also found PingPull variants that use HTTPS and TCP for C2 communications instead of ICMP. org over port 8443 for C2.

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Communications Military Government Libraries 246

Krebs on Security

MAY 14, 2021

“After that, you will be free to communicate with them wherever you want in any way you want,” the instructions read. .” DarkSide organizers also said they were releasing decryption tools for all of the companies that have been ransomed but which haven’t yet paid.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Popular AI platforms Communication channels like websites, messaging apps and voice assistants are increasingly adopting AI chatbots. Secure communication channels: Ensure all communication channels between the chatbot and users are secure and encrypted, safeguarding sensitive data from potential breaches. These tools saved 2.5

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