Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. Is it linked to ToddyCat APT? appeared first on Security Affairs.

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CILIP

JANUARY 31, 2025

Invitation to tender: Future ready libraries CILIP is inviting researchers to undertake a gap analysis and consultation with sector experts to create a comprehensive review of training provision for leadership in the public library workforce in England.

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CILIP

JUNE 7, 2024

Trust Libraries: 10 Pledges for libraries to a new Government A General Election is just round the corner and its outcome will affect us all, with a new government and potentially hundreds of new MPs taking their seats in the House of Commons.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

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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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Also: Iranian State Hackers Stalk Middle Eastern Governments This week, Canada banned WeChat and Kaspersky apps, REvil members faced trial in a Russian military court, the British Library experienced an IT outage, Iranian state-backed hackers targeted Middle East governments and European officials extended the ban on Meta's behavioral advertising practices. (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These flaws could allow attackers to inject malicious libraries into Microsoft’s apps and steal permissions. Despite these risks, Microsoft considers the issues low-risk and declined to fix them, stating that some apps need to allow unsigned libraries for plugin support. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 12, 2024

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.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The Government review was launched in September 2024 and aims to ensure that the national curriculum appropriately balances ambition, excellence, relevance, flexibility, and inclusivity for all children and young people. If they are lost it will be incredibly hard to replace them and their skilled staff. We are still awaiting a response.

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IG Guru

APRIL 27, 2021

The post The Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter April 2021 Edition available via Library and Archives Canada appeared first on IG GURU. Check out the post here.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2024

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.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

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.

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CILIP

MARCH 6, 2024

CILIP has previously signalled deep concern over the lack of financial support to Local Authorities and the fact that the recently announced ‘Exceptional Financial Support’ (EFS) package will prompt a ‘fire sale’ of vital assets, including public libraries, in the 19 Councils concerned.

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CILIP

APRIL 16, 2024

Libraries Change Lives Week anticipates this year’s General Election, puts the sector on a public platform where libraries, library staff and library users can evidence the value of this statutory service - both locally and nationally - to the leaders of tomorrow.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

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.

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AIIM

APRIL 17, 2020

Information governance audits, in particular, are used to ensure compliance with relevant information governance policies and procedures. On this episode of the AIIM on Air podcast , your host Kevin Craine explores Information Governance Audits with AIIM member Andrew du Fresne. Do they make compliance objectives more effective?

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2021

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.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2021

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.

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Gimmal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Enter metadata—a powerful tool that can revolutionize your information governance strategy. Facilitate Compliance and Governance : Use metadata to automate records management processes, apply retention policies, and ensure regulatory compliance. A Visual Analogy Imagine walking down a supermarket aisle looking for soup.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

. “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.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2020

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.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2025

In general, this means avoiding hardcoding particular algorithms and favoring libraries and systems that simplify migrating between algorithms. Governments are concerned about protecting citizen information that passes over the Internet and about protecting classified information that moves within its network.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Recently, the Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library 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 victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

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.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

These buckets contained software libraries that are still used. The TL;DR is that this time, we ended up discovering ~150 Amazon S3 buckets that had previously been used across commercial and open source software products, governments, and infrastructure deployment/update pipelines—and then abandoned.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

“The SFile ransomware uses the Mbed TLS library, RSA-2048 and AES-256 algorithms for file encryption. The ransomware was involved in targeted attacks against corporate and government networks. The ransomware does not have its own portal; the attackers communicate with victims via email” reported ESET.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It’s easy to think of it as a problem the federal government must address or something that enterprises deal with, but cybersecurity has to be addressed closer to home, as well. His company supplies a co-managed SIEM service to mid-sized and large enterprises, including local government agencies. I spoke to A.N. Election threat.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

The hackers targeting organizations across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. The two loaders discovered by Cylance and used by the APT group use side-loaded DLLs and an AES128 implementation from Crypto++ library for payload decryption.

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CILIP

MARCH 18, 2024

Libraries at Risk: Update CILIP has written to eight councils in the Libraries at Risk Campaign, launched the #DearChancellor campaign on social media, and written a formal letter to Lord Parkinson to initiate dialogue on the future of libraries. View all the #DearChancellor tweets on X (formerly Twitter).

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CILIP

AUGUST 30, 2024

CILIP writes to Libraries Minister CILIP has written to Sir Chris Bryant, detailing how CILIP can support the new government’s key missions. Chief Executive Louis Coiffait-Gunn reached out to the MP after he was announced as heading up responsibility for public libraries.

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CILIP

JANUARY 16, 2024

CILIP welcomes publication of Sanderson Review of Public Libraries CILIP has welcomed the publication of the findings of Baroness Sanderson of Welton’s Independent Review of Public Libraries, announced today at an event at the House of Lords attended by our CEO, Nick Poole.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Government experts analyzed 10 samples of malware involved in FASTCash attacks, state-sponsored hackers used them to compromise payment “switch application servers” within the targeted banks to facilitate fraudulent transactions. ” states the report. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

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.

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