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The Library of Congress discloses the compromise of some of its IT systems, an alleged foreign threat actor hacked their emails. Only email communications between congressional offices and some library staff, including the Congressional Research Service, from January to September, were affected. ” reported the NBC News.
The Rhysida ransomware group claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on the British Library that has caused a major IT outage. The Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. It is one of the largest libraries in the world. ” reads the announcement.
CERT France is warning of a new wave of attacks using Pysa ransomware (Mespinoza) that is targeting local governments. CERT France cyber-security agency is warning about a new wave of ransomware attack that is targeting the networks of local government authorities. Pierluigi Paganini.
In 2023, the researchers observed a surge in zero-day vulnerabilities in third-party components and libraries that can impact all products that use them. The Chinese government made the headlines because government-linked APT groups exploited 12 zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023, which marks a notable increase from seven in 2022.
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.
FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.
A cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Stayin’ Alive, targeted high-profile government and telecom entities in Asia. The CurKeep payload is very small, it is 10kb in size, contains 26 functions and is not statically compiled with any library. appeared first on Security Affairs. Is it linked to ToddyCat APT?
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. Pierluigi Paganini.
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Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites in response to the discovery of the Log4Shell flaw in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites as a preventative measure after the disclosure of a PoC exploit for the Log4Shell flaw ( CVE-2021-44228 ) in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library.
A campaign tracked as EastWind is targeting Russian government and IT organizations with PlugY and GrewApacha Backdoors. In late July 2024, Kaspersky researchers detected a series of targeted cyberattacks against the Russian government and IT organizations. “This library is a backdoor packed with the VMProtect tool.
Microsoft revealed that the Chinese group Storm-0558 stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump. Storm-0558 threat actors focus on government agencies in Western Europe and were observed conducting cyberespionage, data theft, and credential access attacks.
ESET researchers reported that a Windows version of DinodasRAT was used in attacks against government entities in Guyana. The campaign seems active since at least early 2022 and focuses primarily on government organizations. The library uses the Tiny Encryption Algorithm ( TEA ) in CBC mode to cipher and decipher the data.
The CISA agency is warning of a surge in Emotet attacks targeting multiple state and local governments in the US since August. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert to warn of a surge of Emotet attacks that have targeted multiple state and local governments in the U.S. since August.
The cyber-espionage group tracked as APT40 (aka TEMP.Periscope , TEMP.Jumper , and Leviathan ), apparently linked to the Chinese government, is focused on targeting countries important to the country’s Belt and Road Initiative (i.e. Hainan Xiandun even appears to operate from the Hainan University Library!”
This issue arises because the GeoTools library API, which GeoServer uses, evaluates property/attribute names for feature types in a way that unsafely passes them to the commons-jxpath library, allowing arbitrary code execution. government entities in Belgium, and telecommunications companies in Thailand and Brazil.
Government experts warn of sophisticated cyber threat actors which are actively scanning networks to potentially exploit the above flaws in vulnerable systems. Government experts warn of sophisticated cyber threat actors which are actively scanning networks to potentially exploit the above flaws in vulnerable systems.
. “CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.” ” reads the Malware Analysis Report (AR22-320A) published by CISA.
federal government commission associated with international rights. federal government commission associated with international rights. ” According to security firm Avast who discovered the attack, the backdoor was likely used as the initial vector in a multi-stage attack to penetrate the government network.
US CISA ordered federal agencies to address the critical Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library by December 24th, 2021. US CISA ordered federal agencies to address the critical Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library by December 24th, 2021. beta9 to 2.14.1. ” reads the announcement published by CISA.
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.
The Zeus Sphinx malware was first observed on August 2015, a few days after a new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan was offered for sale on hacker forums, At the end of March, experts from IBM X-Force uncovered a hacking campaign employing the Zeus Sphinx malware that focused on government relief payment.
Recently, the Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The advisory is part of the ongoing #StopRansomware effort, disseminating information about tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with ransomware groups.
Researchers at security firm ESET discovered an SFile ransomware variant supporting the FreeBSD platform that was used in attacks against a partially state-owned company in China. “The SFile ransomware uses the Mbed TLS library, RSA-2048 and AES-256 algorithms for file encryption.
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Recently, the Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library and China Energy Engineering Corporation to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors.
The group also claimed the hack of the British Library and China Energy Engineering Corporation. The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The Rhysida ransomware group has been active since May 2023.
Experts observed a 400% increase in the number of attacks, compared with October, that hit government organizations. PYSA ransomware operators focus on large or high-value finance, government and healthcare organisations. CERT-FR’s alert states that the Pysa ransomware code is based on public Python libraries.
” states the Government Agency. “Google Hosted Libraries have been designed to remove all information that allows identifying users before logging on. And of course we need to be able to make sure that our suppliers handle all data according to applicable law and within the framework agreed upon with them.”
Multiple threat actors exploited a critical flaw in Progress Telerik to breach an unnamed US federal agency, said the US government. Exploitation of this vulnerability allowed malicious actors to successfully execute remote code on a federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agency’s Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web server.”
“The document said the exploit worked for Android versions 9 to 11, which was released in 2020, and that it took advantage of a flaw in the “image rendering library.” Operation Zero’s clients include Russian government agencies and private businesses. ” wrote Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on TechCrunch.
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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.
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. Pierluigi Paganini.
Emotet is a modular malware, its operators could develop new Dynamic Link Libraries to update its capabilities. In October, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert to warn of a surge of Emotet attacks that have targeted multiple state and local governments in the U.S. since August.
The CVE-2021-44228 flaw 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.
Russia-linked APT29 group abused the legitimate information exchange systems used by European countries to target government entities. The HTLM files are hosted on a legitimate online library website that was likely compromised by the threat actors sometime between the end of January 2023 and the beginning of February 2023.
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