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OCTOBER 22, 2018

The NATO military command center should be fully operational in 2023, every member states will contribute with its cyber capabilities to the military hub. NATO alliance is aware of growing threats in the cyberspace and the new NATO military command center aims to respond them. 31 at its military hub in Belgium.

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JUNE 30, 2019

The governments of Germany and The Netherlands agreed to build the first-ever joint military Internet, so-called TEN (Tactical Edge Networking). Government officials from Germany and the Netherlands signed an agreement for the building of the first-ever joint military Internet, so-called TEN (Tactical Edge Networking).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) US agency in charge of secure IT and communication for the White House has disclosed a data breach. The agency sent a data breach notification to its employees last week informing them of a security breach that took place last year between May and July. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Security researchers at ESET recently uncovered a campaign carried out by the InvisiMole group that has been targeting a small number of high-profile organizations in the military sector and diplomatic missions in Eastern Europe. The downloader communicates with C2 servers using DNS tunneling. Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In August 2020, security experts from FireEye uncovered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO by spreading fake news content on compromised news websites. According to FireEye, the campaign tracked as GhostWriter, has been ongoing since at least March 2017 and is aligned with Russian security interests.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Experts uncovered a new cyber-espionage campaign, dubbed “ Operation In(ter)receptio n,” aimed at aerospace and military organizations in Europe and the Middle East. For further communication with the customer, they used their own email address mimicking the victim’s.” ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

as members of the PLA’s 54 th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. Attorney General Bill Barr said at a press conference today that the Justice Department doesn’t normally charge members of another country’s military with crimes (this is only the second time the agency has indicted Chinese military hackers).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

” reads the statement published by Ukraine’s State Service for Special Communication and Information Protection. Yesterday, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) today revealed the country is the target of an ongoing “wave of hybrid warfare” conducted by Russia-linked malicious actors. ” ???? Pierluigi Paganini.

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JUNE 6, 2019

The Platinum cyber espionage group uses steganographic technique to hide communications with the Command and Control Servers (C&C). Experts from Kaspersky have linked the Platinum APT group with cyber attacks involving an elaborate, and new steganographic technique used to hide communications with C2 servers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MARCH 1, 2020

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. European Commission has chosen the Signal app to secure its communications. Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram blocked in Turkey as Idlib military crisis escalates. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 253 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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JULY 1, 2020

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE are considered as national security threats. regulators declared Huawei and ZTE to be national security threats. Last week China accused the US government of “oppressing Chinese companies” after U.S. In November 2019, the U.S.

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MARCH 17, 2022

The hacktivists also attempted to interfere with Russian military communications on the battlefield, recently they captured and shared Russian Military unencrypted High Frequency and morse code communications. The post Anonymous continues to support Ukraine against the Russia appeared first on Security Affairs.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2025

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JUNE 16, 2024

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JUNE 19, 2021

Experts attribute a series of cyber-espionage campaigns dating back to 2014, and focused on gathering military intelligence, to China-linked Unit 69010. These targets suggest the group is likely interested in gathering intelligence on military technology and defense” reads the report published by the Insikt Group.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Armed Forces General Staff (Portuguese: Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas), or EMGFA, is the supreme military body of Portugal. The National Security Office (GNS) and Portugal’s national cybersecurity center launched an investigation into the incident to determine the extent of the data breach. ” continues the website.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Ukraine’s security service (SBU) detained an alleged member of the pro-Russia hacker group “the Cyber Army of Russia.” ” Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, announced that it has identified and detained an alleged member of the pro-Russia hacker group known as the Cyber Army of Russia.

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

Italian police have arrested two people that have been accused of stealing 10 GB of confidental data and military secrets from defense company Leonardo S.p.A. The two people are the former employee of the IT security management of Leonardo SpA, Arturo D’Elia, who is currently in jail, and Antonio Rossi, head of the CERT (Cyber ??Emergency

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A previously undocumented threat actor tracked TIDRONE targets organizations in military and satellite industries in Taiwan. Since April, the group used CLNTEND , a previously undetected remote access tool (RAT), which supports a wider range of network protocols for communication, further enhancing their capabilities.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

The FBI and NSA have published a joint security alert containing technical details about a new piece of Linux malware, tracked as Drovorub , allegedly employed by Russia-linked the APT28 group. The post FBI and NSA joint report details APT28’s Linux malware Drovorub appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Sweden is banning Chinese tech giant Huawei and ZTE from building new 5G wireless networks due to national security concerns. The decision is the result of assessments made by the Swedish military and security service. ” reads a press release published by the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority. .

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MARCH 1, 2020

Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. Garda and military intelligence agencies believe the Russian agents were sent by the military intelligence branch of the Russian armed forces, the GRU.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ukraine’s premier law enforcement and counterintelligence disclosed the real identities of five alleged members of the Russia-linked APT group Gamaredon (aka Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) that are suspected to be components of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). ” concludes the announcement.

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AUGUST 25, 2018

Chinese-owned telecommunications firm Huawei has been banned from Australia’s 5G network due to security concerns. The Australian government considers risky the involvement of Huawei for the rolling out of next-generation 5G communication networks. Huawei Australia defined the decision disappointing. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

US adds Chinese multinational technology and entertainment conglomerate Tencent to the list of companies supporting the Chinese military. The US Department of Defense has added Chinese multinational technology and entertainment conglomerate Tencent to its “Chinese military company” list under the Section 1260 requirement.

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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. ” U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The cyber espionage group has tampered with updates released by IT company SolarWinds, which provides its products to government agencies, military, and intelligence offices, two people familiar with the matter told the Reuters agency. . Threat actors carried out a highly-sophisticated supply chain attack.

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

“We continue targeting internet and telecom providers to disrupt enemy communications. Another blow by our cyber army disrupting enemy military communication at the frontlines.” .” The IT Army is inviting supporters to joint its operations by installing their software. am on October 27, 2023.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

.” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics.

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JUNE 24, 2024

Check Point observed approximately 120 different malicious campaigns using the tool, threat actors successfully targeted high-profile organizations, including the military sector. The majority of the victims, more than 87%, are using Android versions that are no longer supported and that are not receiving security updates.

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MAY 24, 2022

Threat actors could perform reverse engineering of military-made malicious code and use their own versions in attacks in the wild. “The same applies for the digital weapons that, maybe today are used by the military, developed by military, and tomorrow will be available for criminals,” he explained. .

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The experts discovered a Mach-O universal binary communicating with a domain that they had previously classified as malicious. The binary is ad-hoc signed that was observed communicating with the domain swissborg[.]blog, The APT group’s campaigns focus on cryptocurrency exchanges, venture capital firms, and banks.

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JULY 15, 2020

“This attack was done solely for fun” The group claims to have hacked numerous organizations and government agencies over the years, including US military, European Union, Washington DC, Israeli Defense Forces, the Indian Government, and some central banks. .” Ghost Squad Hackers’s member s1ege told me.

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JUNE 11, 2022

The activity of the Lyceum APT group was first documented earlier in August 2019 by researchers at ICS security firm Dragos which tracked it as Hexane. “The malware employs the DNS protocol for command and control (C2) communication which increases stealth and keeps the malware communication probes under the radar to evade detection.”

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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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Experts at Symantec first exposed the activity of the Chinese-linked APT Thrip in 2018, now the security firm confirms that cyber espionage group has continued to carry out attacks in South East Asia. Security experts at Symantec speculate that Thrip is a sub-group of Billbug. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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