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AUGUST 21, 2023

military procurement system. military procurement system and was spotted targeting Taiwan-based organizations The choice of the new targets in the latest campaign suggests a strategic interest of the People’s Republic of China according to the 2023 ODNI threat assessment. military server used for contract proposals and submissions.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

” The man, who remails at large, used fake email accounts posing as US-based researchers and engineers to target government personnel to obtain software and source code created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“NASA”), research universities, and private companies. Air Force, Navy, Army, and the FAA.”

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AUGUST 9, 2022

China-linked threat actors targeted dozens of industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and Europe. In January 2022, researchers at Kaspersky ICS CERT uncovered a series of targeted attacks on military industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and East Europe. ” concludes the report.

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JUNE 26, 2022

Experts speculate a cyber attack may have turned off the industrial safety controls at the natural gas facility. ICS malware like TRITON , which experts associated with Russia-linked APT group XENOTIME , has offensive capabilities to shut down industrial safety controls and cause extensive damages to industrial facilities.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This year, 750 cyber specialists have participated in the military cyberwarfare exercise. The Defence Cyber Marvel 2 (DCM2) is the largest training exercise organised by the Army Cyber Association to allow personnel from across the Armed Forces to build their skills within the cyber and electromagnetic domain.

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MARCH 25, 2022

has indicted four Russian government employees for their involvement in attacks on entities in critical infrastructure. has indicted four Russian government employees for their role in cyberattacks targeting hundreds of companies and organizations in the energy sector worldwide between 2012 and 2018. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. Edited by Pierluigi Paganini.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Stolen documents include: confidential documents, including orders and reports circulated among over 2000 structural units of the Russian military service. Rosaviatsia is the government agency responsible for the oversight and regulation of civil aviation in Russia.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Over the past 20 months, the group targeted at least 30 organizations within 14 nations that are probably of strategic intelligence significance to the Russian government and its military. The Government experts pointed out that in some cases the group did not deployed any backdoor in the compromised systems.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2023

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against four entities and one individual for their role in malicious cyber operations conducted to support the government of North Korea. The sanctioned entities conducted operations to steal funds to support the military strategy of the regime.

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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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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. This isn’t new, this isn’t just data of non-US citizens, and this isn’t the US military.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Mapping the Global Spyware Market and its Threats to National Security and Human Rights Dissecting Lumma Malware: Analyzing the Fake CAPTCHA and Obfuscation Techniques – Part 2 Predator Spyware Infrastructure Returns Following Exposure and Sanctions Malware’s Shared Secrets: Code Similarity Insights for (..)

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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. Veterans have the characteristics that make them ideal for these roles. And it works.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Malaysia’s MyCERT issued a security alert to warn of a hacking campaign targeting government officials that was carried out by the China-linked APT40 group. Malaysia’s Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT) warns of a cyber espionage campaign carried out by the China-linked APT40 group aimed at Malaysian government officials.

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JANUARY 8, 2023

Polish authorities charged Russian and Belarusian individuals with spying for the Russian military intelligence service (GRU). Polish authorities charged Russian and Belarusian individuals, who were arrested in April, with spying for the Russian military intelligence service (GRU) from 2017 to April 2022.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

According to the South Korean authorities, the government of Pyongyang’s goal is to steal intellectual property and trade secrets from the South. According to the South Korean authorities, the government of Pyongyang’s goal is to steal intellectual property and trade secrets from the South. ” reads the advisory.

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MAY 5, 2021

.” At the time of the report, although Mandiant has no evidence about the purposes of the attacks, the broad targeting across multiple industries and the choosing of targets of a global scale, suggests that the attackers could be financially motivated. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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OCTOBER 22, 2023

Chinese cyber espionage aims at obtaining commercial secrets and intellectual property to advantage the government of Beijing. The espionage activity used different means to conceal the involvement of the Chinese government, including financial investments. ” reported BBC.

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MARCH 4, 2020

According to the firm, the US cyber spies are targeting various industry sectors and government agencies. The Qihoo 360 experts claim that a CIA hacking unit tracked as APT-C-39 has hacked organizations in the aviation, scientific research, oil, technology industries, it also targeted government agencies.

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MAY 21, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and the Ministry of Defense. ” The advanced prototype missile was designed to be deployed in Japan’s remote islands as a deterrence to military activities conducted by China in the area. . ” states the AP press agency.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Government of Pyongyang focuses on crypto hacking to fund its military program following harsh U.N. Cyber security and intelligence experts believe that attacks aimed at the cryptocurrency industry will continue to increase next year. economic sanctions were toughened in 2017 in response to its nuclear and missile tests.”

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MARCH 5, 2020

China-linked cyber espionage groups increasingly targeted organizations in the telecommunications industry in 2019. According to the CrowdStrike 2020 Global Threat Report, the telecommunications and government sectors were the most targeted by the threat actors. ” reads the report published by CrowdStrike.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

” Rosaviatsia is the government agency responsible for the oversight and regulation of civil aviation in Russia. The state-sponsored hackers claimed to have stolen sensitive documents that contained proof of a crisis in Russia’s aviation industry. ” continues the announcement. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to the government experts, the BLINDINGCAN malware was employed in attacks aimed at US and foreign companies operating in the military defense and aerospace sectors. Some of the attacks were attributed by the researchers to cyber espionage campaigns tracked as Operation North Star and Operation Dream Job. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Iran ’s Passive Defense Organization chief Gholamreza Jalali declared that the US government has started its cyber war against the country. Jalali is an Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) brigadier general, in November 2018 he announced that government experts have uncovered and neutralized a new strain of Stuxnet.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Expert found Backdoor credentials in ZyXEL LTE3301 M209 Raspberry Robin malware used in attacks against Telecom and Governments TikTok parent company ByteDance revealed the use of TikTok data to track journalists BetMGM discloses security breach impacting 1.5

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DECEMBER 20, 2020

The Department of Energy is responding to a cyber incident related to the Solar Winds compromise in coordination with our federal and industry partners. The agency is responsible for enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear science. said Shaylyn Hynes, DOE Spokeswoman.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The Bvp47 backdoor was first discovered in 2013 while conducting a forensic investigation into a security breach suffered by a Chinese government organization. The name “ Bvp47 ” comes form numerous references to the string “Bvp” and the numerical value “0x47” used in the encryption algorithm.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2024

Japanese video-sharing platform Niconico was victim of a cyber attack UK NHS call for O-type blood donations following ransomware attack on London hospitals Christie’s data breach impacted 45,798 individuals Sticky Werewolf targets the aviation industry in Russia and Belarus Frontier Communications data breach impacted over 750,000 individuals PHP (..)

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AUGUST 5, 2020

The researchers also analyzed the distribution of the vulnerable hosts by industry and discovered that the flaw affects hosts in: According to BadPacket, 677 out of the 913 unique IP addresses found in the list were detected by Bad Packets CTI scans to be vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510 immediately after the exploit was made public in 2019.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 22, 2024

Espionage Group Using Linux-based Espionage Tools to Nab Defense Secrets A politically motivated hacking group aligned with Pakistani interests is matching the Indian military's shift away from the Windows operating system with a heavy focus on malware encoded for Linux.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

EU lawmakers and the European Council aim to update controls for the sale of dual-use solutions such as surveillance spyware, facial recognition systems and drones to prevent authoritarian government abusing them for censorship and to persecute political opponents and dissidents violating human rights.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

and Taiwan across various sectors, including military, government, higher education, telecommunications, defense industrial base, and IT.” “This botnet has targeted entities in the U.S. ” concludes the report.

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