Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

According to the flash alert published by the FBI, the Mamba ransomware was employed in attacks against local governments, public transportation agencies, legal services, technology services, industrial, commercial, manufacturing, and construction businesses. DiskCryptor is not inherently malicious but has been weaponized.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2024

Iran-linked group APT33 used new Tickler malware in attacks against organizations in the government, defense, satellite, oil and gas sectors. The first sample, contained in a file named Network Security.zip including: YAHSAT NETWORK_INFRASTRUCTURE_SECURITY_GUIDE_20240421.pdf.exe dll to execute its functions.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Macaw Locker ransomware encrypts victims’ files and append the .macaw macaw extension to the file name of the encrypted files. The US Government announced sanctions for ransomware negotiation firms that will support victims of the Evil Corp group in the ransom payments.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. Recently organizations in healthcare, research, and government facilities have been hit by Coronavirus-themed attacks that deployed multiple malware families, including ransomware and information stealers (i.e.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukraine and European government and military orgs. Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukrainian and European government and military organizations, as well as individuals. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2020

The phishing messages use Trojan sample associated with a file named “Company PLP_Tax relief due to Covid-19 outbreak CI+PL.jar,” experts from MalwareHunterTeam noticed that the malicious code was only detected by ESET AV. "Company The operators behind the campaign use COVID-19 lure promising victims tax relief.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

In other words, it could be nice to see what are the patterns used by malware in both: domain names, file names and process names. TOP domains, TOP processes and TOP File Names. It would be important for detection and even for preemptive blocking.

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Gimmal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Enter metadata—a powerful tool that can revolutionize your information governance strategy. Limited Sorting and Filtering : Users can only sort and filter files based on basic attributes like name and date within a folder, restricting efficient data retrieval. Efficiency : Reduce the time spent searching for documents.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2020

Experts from IBM X-Force uncovered a hacking campaign employing the Zeus Sphinx malware, as known as Zloader or Terdot , that focus on government relief payments. . Spam messages sent to the victims claim to provide information related to the Coronavirus outbreak and government relief payments.

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Gimmal

OCTOBER 30, 2024

For information governance professionals, understanding and managing RIOT data is crucial. Data Governance Challenges You can’t protect or govern what you can’t access or read. This solution helps enterprises and government agencies uncover and remediate RIOT data effectively.

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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. We found multiple archives like this with file names of government entities in Myanmar, for example “COVID-19 Case 12-11-2020(MOTC).rar”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

Over the past year, ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in the the following industries: Metallurgy Telecommunications Mining Information technology Government Software development The Cobalt’s hallmark was the use of the CobInt tool , the same tool that ExCobalt began using in 2022.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. Gallmaker is a politically motivated APT group that focused its surgical operations on the government, military or defense sectors. ” continues Symantec.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2004 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2019

The name ‘Boris’ is not new for the cyber security industry, it is the name of the hacker who breached the IT provider CityComp at the end of April. “The file names and accompanying directories – numbering almost 65,000 – fit with the focus of the surveillance technology biz.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Budworm cyber espionage group (aka APT27 , Bronze Union , Emissary Panda , Lucky Mouse , TG-3390 , and Red Phoenix) is behind a series attacks conducted over the past six months against a number of high-profile targets, including the government of a Middle Eastern country, a multinational electronics manufacturer, and a U.S.

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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. The attacks detailed by Cybereason targeted technology and manufacturing companies primarily located in East Asia, Western Europe, and North America. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

The phishing messages use a RAR-archive named “Saboteurs.rar”, which contains RAR-archive “Saboteurs 21.03.rar.” ” This second archive contains SFX-archive “Saboteurs filercs.rar,” experts reported that the file name contains the right-to-left override (RTLO) character to mask the real extension.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The government experts pointed out that the threat actor continues to evolve its TTPs to avoid detection. The attack chain starts with spear-phishing messages with a.RAR attachment named “12-1-125_09.01.2023.” The.RAR archive contains the.LNK file named “Запит Служба безпеки України 12-1-125 від 09.01.2023.lnk”

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2021

Government experts speculate the two attacks are part of the same campaign targeting the Irish health sector. The malware involved in the attack is Conti Ransomware v3 (32 bit), which attempted to encrypt all files with the exception of the following file names: – CONTI_LOG.txt – readme.txt – *.FEEDC

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

APT34 is an Iran-linked APT group that has been around since at least 2014, it targeted mainly organizations in the financial, government, energy, telecoms and chemical sectors in the United States and Middle Eastern countries. The fake profiles asked the victims to open the weaponized excel file named ERFT-Details.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

.” The new backdoor uses the API of a cloud file hosting provider to implement command and control (C&C) communication and data exfiltration. The weaponized documents contain images showing blurry logos belonging to some Turkish government organizations, they trick victims into enabling macros to display the document properly.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

UK, Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand governments issued a joint alert about China-linked threat actors targeting CNI organizations and using living off the land to evade detection. “On May 29, the attackers returned and used a renamed version of ProcDump (file name: alg.exe) to dump credentials from LSASS.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The Russia-linked APT group delivers Cannon in a spear-phishing attack that targets government organizations in North America, Europe and in a former USSR state. Hackers used weaponized files named ‘crash list (Lion Air Boeing 737).docx’ docx’ for their campaigns.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2023

Researchers from the Fortinet FortiGuard Labs observed an attack targeting a government entity in the United Arab Emirates with a new PowerShell-based backdoor dubbed PowerExchange. The infection chain commenced with spear phishing messages using a zip file named Brochure.zip in attachment. with the new PowerExchange backdoor.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2023

The Gamaredon APT group (aka Shuckworm, Actinium, Armageddon, Primitive Bear, UAC-0010, and Trident Ursa) continues to carry out attacks against entities in Ukraine, including security services, military, and government organizations. A novelty observed in the recent attacks is the use of a USB propagation malware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

A previously undocumented APT group tracked as GoldenJackal has been targeting government and diplomatic entities in the Middle East and South Asia since 2019. The group focuses on government and diplomatic entities in the Middle East and South Asia. “The fake Skype installer was a.NET executable file named skype32.exe

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2019

A rogue server could send a LOAD DATA LOCAL statement to the client to get access to any file for which the client has read permission. “In theory, a patched server could be built that would tell the client program to transfer a file of the server’s choosing rather than the file named by the client in the LOAD DATA statement.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It creates temporary files with the “ lock” and “ trash” extensions. It uses hardcoded file names designed to masquerade as Microsoft office executables: OfficeTemplate.exe and MicrosoftOfficeDashboard.exe” reads the analysis published by Symantec.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

A new sophisticated malware strain, dubbed DownEx, was involved in attacks aimed at Government organizations in Central Asia. In late 2022, Bitdefender Labs researchers first observed a highly targeted cyberattack targeting foreign government institutions in Kazakhstan that involved a new sophisticated strain of malware dubbed DownEx.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. ReadMe file name: README.BlackSuit.txt. New #ransomware #BlackSuit targets Windows, #Linux. Extension: blacksuit.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

GOBLIN PANDA was focused on Vietnam, most of the targets were in the defense, energy, and government sectors. “Two exploit documents with Vietnamese-language file names were observed with file metadata unique to the GOBLIN PANDA adversary.” ” reads the analysis published by CrowdStrike.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2023

government. “It then receives a response containing a file name which the malware uses to download additional rooting binaries from C2 infrastructure if one exists for the specified device.” ” continues the report. ” The report also includes Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for both spyware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The script downloads a file named: AZZI.exe and saves it by a new name: VRE1wEh9j0mvUATIN3AqW1HSNnyir8id.exe on a System temporary directory for running it. The following code is the execution path that drives Stage 2 to Stage 3. var run = new ActiveXObject(‘WSCRIPT.Shell’).Run(powershell

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

Crimew discovered a file named NoFly.csv which is a legitimate U.S. records (first names, last names, and dates of birth) belonging to people with suspected or known ties to terrorist groups. “three csv files, employee_information.csv, NOFLY.CSV and SELECTEE.CSV. no fly list from 2019 containing over 1.56

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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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AIIM

APRIL 8, 2021

It serves in many ways to apply a formal governance framework to the document creation and collaborative editing processes. This feature also reduces the need to store multiple copies and versions, and their associated naming conventions, in order to retain a document’s history.

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