Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. This information contains, for example, the list of installed security patches.”

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 30, 2022

Meanwhile, 200,000 well-trained and technically skilled military service members are discharged each year. Yet, there’s still work to be done to make this path more accessible and known among the veteran and transitioning military community. This experience can also be helpful when training cybersecurity talent.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the defendant was busted in March 2022, after fleeing mandatory military service in Ukraine in the weeks following the Russian invasion. 18 fleeing mandatory military service in Ukraine. Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky, seen here in a Porsche Cayenne on Mar. According to those sources, U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

military, federal, state, and local government agencies Public universities and schools Hospitals and health care providers Electric utilities Major financial institutions Numerous Fortune 500 companies. ZDNet researchers pointed out that ransomware operators could use the leaked credentials to target large enterprise. ” reported ZDNet.

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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

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. Most of the victims are from the United States, China, and Indonesia, but the researchers pointed out that they observed infections all over the world.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

“For example, UNC2529 used a unique username, masquerading as an account executive for a small California-based electronics manufacturing company, which Mandiant identified through a simple Internet search.” ” states the analysis published by FireEye.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Most of the infections were observed in organizations in the US and Europe, the most targeted industries were in the government, military, and manufacturing sectors. . Check Point’s experts have analyzed examples of targeted, hijacked email threads with subjects related to Covid-19, tax payment reminders, and job recruitment content.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2022

Here’s one example. ” The card reader Mark bought was sold by a company called Saicoo , whose sponsored Amazon listing advertises a “DOD Military USB Common Access Card (CAC) Reader” and has more than 11,700 mostly positive ratings. What could go wrong? A sample Common Access Card (CAC). Image: Cac.mil.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The offensive volunteer unit Aushev said he is organizing would help Ukraine’s military conduct digital espionage operations against invading Russian forces. Ransomware gangs could provide their support for state-sponsored hackers, for example, providing them accesses to already compromised government organizations and businesses.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

military’s Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture, it allows multiple independent cyber training operations to run simultaneously. “The Cyber Training Capabilities Project Arrangement signed today by Australia and the US “is an example of how the cyber mission forces of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The term “ dual-use ” refers to technology that can be used for both peaceful and military aims. We have set an important example for other democracies to follow,” said Marketa Gregorova, a European Parliament lawmaker who was one of the lead negotiato. Today is a win for global human rights.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Head Mare hacktivist group targets Russia and Belarus Zyxel fixed critical OS command injection flaw in multiple routers VMware fixed a code execution flaw in Fusion hypervisor U.S. Managing Cybersecurity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Clearview AI Faces €30.5M

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Security Affairs

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. Most of the victims are from the United States, China, and Indonesia, but the researchers pointed out that they observed infections all over the world.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2024

The Blackjack group is believed to be affiliated with Ukrainian intelligence services that carried out other attacks against Russian targets, including an internet provider and a military infrastructure. “For example, Blackjack claims to have damaged or destroyed 87,000 remote sensors and IoT collectors.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace. For example, in 2019, Lazarus attacked a nuclear organization in India, which led to the power plant’s second unit being shut down.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

However, his experiment is a perfect example of how poor cyber hygiene can leave organizations vulnerable to cyber attacks. However, evidence suggests that the rogue superstate’s cyber capabilities are as weak as its military stance in Ukraine, especially when met with resistance.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

In typical SSRF examples, the attacker might cause the server to make a connection back to itself, or to other web-based services within the organization’s infrastructure, or to external third-party systems. . “It seems they took the vulnerable service down also, this is their attempt to prevent future cyber attacks.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2023

.” Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed a Russian threat actor exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 flaw in targeted attacks against several organizations in the European government, transportation, energy, and military sectors, for approximately a year. ” concludes the expert.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2022

For example, we detected and disrupted recidivist CIB activity linked to the Belarusian KGB who suddenly began posting in Polish and English about Ukrainian troops surrendering without a fight and the nation’s leaders fleeing the country on February 24, the day Russia began the war. .”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

APT37 has been active since at least 2012, it mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. Below some examples of URLs used to load malicious code: hxxps://www.dailynk[.]com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.5.1 ” reads the post published by Volexity. services. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2024

SideWinder (also known as Razor Tiger, Rattlesnake, and T-APT-04) has been active since at least 2012, the group mainly targeted Police, Military, Maritime, and the Naval forces of Central Asian countries. ” reads the analysis published by the BlackBerry researchers.

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

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 5, 2022

The Ukraine-Russia war is a grim example of geopolitical risk intersecting with cyber security risk. And this is where strategic intelligence feeds into the cyber security puzzle.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2019

The attackers appear to be focused o n stealing military-related information. The operators behind the Bouncing Golf campaign attempt to cover their tracks, for example, they masked the registrant contact details of the C&C domains used in the campaign.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Our military systems are vulnerable. We need to face that reality by halting the purchase of insecure weapons and support systems and by incorporating the realities of offensive cyberattacks into our military planning. Over the past decade, militaries have established cyber commands and developed cyberwar doctrine.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This operation is another example of the Justice Department’s efforts to use every tool at our disposal to disrupt national security threat actors, including, but by no means limited to, prosecution.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Netherlands-based company with 12 million users worldwide provides “military-grade data protection” solutions with its popular DataVault encryption software. For example, sales communication channels could be used to phish clients by sending them fake invoices or spreading malware via trusted email addresses.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

The Gamaredon APT group continues to carry out attacks against entities in Ukraine, including security services, military, and government organizations. “A characteristic feature of the mentioned stealer working on a computer is the creation of a log file (for example, %LOCALAPPDATA%_profiles_1_new_.ini),

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2018

.” The Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD) is a foreign intelligence unit that is coordinated by China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), the agency that is tasked for non-military foreign intelligence and domestic counterintelligence operations. State-sponsored hacking is a direct threat to our national security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

The popular cryptographer and researcher Moxie claims the list of customers of the company includes authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russia, Venezuela, and China, death squads in Bangladesh, and military juntas in Myanmar. Cellebrite produce two primary pieces products, the UFED and Physical Analyzer.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2022

The Donot Team has been active since 2016, it focuses on government and military organizations, ministries of foreign affairs, and embassies in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries. The Donot Team threat actor, aka APT-C-35 , has added new capabilities to its Jaca Windows malware framework.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 19, 2022

The conflict in Ukraine is a prime example of how engaging in global commerce and providing aid to foreign countries or foreign nationals may pose a security risk. in order to persuade them to divulge U.S. national security secrets. national interests.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand. For example, it is unclear how much data would have been unrecoverable if a decryption key had not become available as the HSE’s backup infrastructure was only periodically backed up to offline tape.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

RCS Lab was providing its software to military and intelligence agencies in Pakistan , Chile , Mongolia , Bangladesh , Vietnam , Myanmar and Turkmenistan. “For example, a current Tykelab employee’s LinkedIn profile indicates that they also work at RCS Lab. However, we found various publicly-available clues that suggest otherwise.

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