Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

“The SFile ransomware uses the Mbed TLS library, RSA-2048 and AES-256 algorithms for file encryption. The ransomware does not have its own portal; the attackers communicate with victims via email” reported ESET. The ransomware was involved in targeted attacks against corporate and government networks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The group focuses on government departments that are involved in foreign affairs, technology, and telecommunications. Attackers spread the backdoor as a dynamic library (DLL, SO), the malware allows attackers to fully control the compromised environment. The communication relies on GZIP-compressed and AES-GCM-encrypted messages.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

The hackers targeting organizations across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. The two loaders discovered by Cylance and used by the APT group use side-loaded DLLs and an AES128 implementation from Crypto++ library for payload decryption.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

Threat actors target government entities in the Middle East with a new backdoor dubbed CR4T as part of an operation tracked as DuneQuixote. The malware is developed in C/C++ without utilizing the Standard Template Library (STL), and certain segments are coded in pure Assembler.” ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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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

APRIL 26, 2023

In recent years, the researchers observed the group expanding its operations to include financial institutions and government entities. 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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Government experts analyzed 10 samples of malware involved in FASTCash attacks, state-sponsored hackers used them to compromise payment “switch application servers” within the targeted banks to facilitate fraudulent transactions. ” states the report. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Symantec pointed out that the attacks against government organizations in Hong Kong remained undetected for a year in some cases. Like the sample analyzed by Cyberreason, the Spyder Loader sample analyzed by Symantec uses the CryptoPP C++ library. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

LuminousMoth: Kaspersky uncovered an ongoing and large-scale APT campaign that targeted government entities in Southeast Asia, including Myanmar and the Philippines. “The archive contains two malicious DLL libraries as well as two legitimate executables that sideload the DLL files.

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Archiving File names Government Libraries 246

Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2019

Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware. Backdoor mechanism found in Ruby strong_password library. Cyberattack shuts down La Porte County government systems. Prototype Pollution flaw discovered in all versions of Lodash Library. New Miori botnet has a unique protocol for C2 communication.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

The group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East, targeting financial, government, energy, chemical, telecommunications and other industries. Repeated targeting of Middle Eastern financial, energy and government organisations leads FireEye to assess that those sectors are a primary concern of APT34. Source: MISP Project ).

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Computer and Electronics Communications Government Security 278

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Raspberry Robin worm attacks aimed at telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. exe, and rundll32.exe.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2022

The Log4Shell flaw ( CVE-2021-44228 ) made the headlines in December after Chinese security researcher p0rz9 publicly disclosed a Proof-of-concept exploit for the critical remote code execution zero-day vulnerability ( aka Log4Shell ) that affects the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Access Libraries Communications Government 246

CILIP

JANUARY 16, 2024

CILIP welcomes publication of Sanderson Review of Public Libraries CILIP has welcomed the publication of the findings of Baroness Sanderson of Welton’s Independent Review of Public Libraries, announced today at an event at the House of Lords attended by our CEO, Nick Poole.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

The experts obtained the sensitive data by analyzing the content of compact flash cards, capturing serial communication while using the product’s maintenance software serial communication, and physically removing and extracting data from the flash memory chip on the main circuit boards. ” reads the analysis published by Rapid7.

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Marketing Authentication Communications Manufacturing 246

Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

The US government announced to have disrupted the peer-to-peer (P2P) network of computers compromised by the Snake malware. The malware uses custom communications protocols designed to avoid detection. Government attributes to a unit within Center 16 of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).”

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

Lampion was first documented in December 2019 , and it was distributed in Portugal via phishing emails using templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. VBS file leverages the Windows rundll32 library to inject the first DLL into memory (P-14-7.dll), More recently, in May 2020, a new variant of Lampion was observed.

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Communications Cloud Phishing Encryption 331

Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

In the process of doing so, I encountered a small snag: The FSB’s website said in order to communicate with them securely, I needed to download and install an encryption and virtual private networking (VPN) appliance that is flagged by at least 20 antivirus products as malware. government on multiple occasions over the past five years.

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Encryption Ransomware Government Communications 331

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The money is kept by the government and in return, a “non-permanent” profit officially titled as “interest” is given back to the officers at the end of each year. The two dll are legit windows library and are used in support of the malicious behaviour. The Fund is financial planning for defense personnel. The SilentCMD Module.

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Military Communications Encryption IT 361

Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

These code repositories, called libraries, are hosted on sites like GitHub. There are libraries for everything: displaying objects in 3D, spell-checking, performing complex mathematics, managing an e-commerce shopping cart, moving files around the internet—everything. It’s a freely available library that does data compression.

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Libraries e-Discovery Cybersecurity Government 143

ARMA International

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

i] Documents are created, deployed, and used to help us communicate, organize, control, discipline, monitor, and represent many aspects of information, institutions, and individuals. iv] Further, “the practices of government [and other public and private institutions] become formal or official to the extent that they are documented.” [v]

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Information governance Government Libraries Paper 94

Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2022

” The DOJ’s new policy (PDF) borrows language from a Library of Congress rulemaking (PDF) on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a similarly controversial law that criminalizes production and dissemination of technologies or services designed to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works.

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Security Computer and Electronics Access Libraries 310

CILIP

MAY 12, 2020

COVID-19 Guidance for School Libraries. This Guidance has been developed by a Working Party convened jointly by CILIP, the CILIP School Libraries Group (CILIP SLG) and the School Library Association (SLA). Schools and school libraries differ vastly in their size, governance and operations. Disclaimer.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2019

The hackers targeted organizations across multiple industries and have also hit foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. The 2018 variant analyzed by Cylance leverages a different piece of malware deployed on the victim host for communications. of the wolfSSL library , formerly known as CyaSSL.

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Manufacturing Libraries Communications Security 217

AIIM

APRIL 2, 2020

It was basically this handheld device that allowed you to easily communicate across any language – be it human or alien! Click here to access our full library of episodes. and be teleported back home. Another thing that really caught my eye on that show was their “universal translator.” Want more episodes like this?

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Artificial Intelligence Libraries Information governance Communications 129

CILIP

MAY 28, 2024

Libraries Change Lives – Join the campaign in the build up to the general election This summer, a change of government will take place, and potentially hundreds of new MPs will join the House of Commons for the first time. If you haven’t already taken part, please add you own service and share your success stories by 24 June 2024.

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Libraries Government Communications 52

Archives Blogs

JUNE 26, 2020

In this second installment of Library History with Heritage & University archives, we’ll be looking at the trajectory of the Library School since its reorganization in 1947. Strozier Library, 1957, view this item in the digital library. The school’s name was changed once more in 2004 to the College of Information.

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Libraries Archiving Communications Paper 46

The Texas Record

AUGUST 20, 2020

This event is organized by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and co-sponsored with the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to promote electronic records management in Texas government. Our theme is Records Are Virtually Everywhere. Please forward this announcement to others who might be interested.

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Records Management Communications Government Libraries 98

ChiefTech

MAY 22, 2012

Less than a quarter of the Australian Government's regular websites can be considered smartphone or mobile-friendly, according to a survey conducted by iTnews. A survey by the ITNews concludes that government Websites fail mobile access tests. Now, there are some very good examples of government in Australia using mobile.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

The problem: As announced last week , attackers able to intercept handshake processes can adjust sequence numbers to downgrade communication security and disable defenses against keystroke timing attacks. Government agencies have until January 23 to mitigate the issues or stop using affected products. Versions 0.65 Versions 0.65

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Encryption Libraries Cybersecurity Communications 110

Schneier on Security

MARCH 21, 2022

The application, node-ipc, adds remote interprocess communication and neural networking capabilities to other open source code libraries. As a dependency, node-ipc is automatically downloaded and incorporated into other libraries, including ones like Vue.js CLI, which has more than 1 million weekly downloads. […]. .”

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Libraries Manufacturing Risk Communications 105

Archives Blogs

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Rankin was the Director of the Municipal Reference Library for the City of New York. Her work included the promotion of resources and services of the library to its clients. The weekly broadcasts over WNYC also succeeded as an outreach service by communicating vital civic information. Librarian Barry W. ’ [1].

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Government Libraries Access Archiving 49

CILIP

MARCH 6, 2020

a great, free digital resource for public libraries. a great, free digital resource for public libraries. DO your library users have health issues they want to find out more about? The service is only available on terminals in public libraries and cannot be accessed remotely. users on library premises. "At

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Libraries Access Communications IT 52

Unwritten Record

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Ryan is an AV Archivist at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Local Identifier: WHPO-8498-17) White House Photo Office Collection, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Local Identifier: WHPO-8555-09A) White House Photo Office Collection, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

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Libraries Archiving Communications Access 48

CILIP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Asked why he chose the Civil Service above other areas of librarianship, David says: “It is just so interesting… it puts you in the centre of constantly changing challenges while offering unparalleled opportunities to move between librarianship, records management, knowledge management, information governance throughout your career.”

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Government Libraries Computer and Electronics Information governance 52

The Texas Record

JULY 12, 2021

This event is organized by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) and co-sponsored with the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) to promote electronic records management in Texas government. Our theme is Accelerating Towards the Texas of Tomorrow.

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