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Cyber-Criminal espionage Operation insists on Italian Manufacturing

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ZLab researchers spotted a new malicious espionage activity targeting Italian companies operating worldwide in the manufacturing sector. This actor was first spotted by PaloAlto’s UNIT42 in 2018 during wide scale operations against technology, retail, manufacturing, and local government industries in the US, Europe and Asia.

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Nation-state actors are targeting UK universities to steal info on COVID-19 research

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The NCSC reported that nation-state actors are carrying out cyber espionage campaigns aimed at gathering intelligence on studies conducted by UK organizations related to Coronavirus pandemic. AstraZeneca is already working with the university to manufacture and distribute the vaccine in case the clinical trials will have positive results.

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Rhysida ransomware gang is auctioning data stolen from the British Library

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The library announced that its buildings remain fully open and the following services are available onsite: Reading Rooms (for personal study) any collection items ordered on or before 26 October very limited, manual collection item ordering in London via our printed catalogues, for items stored in St Pancras only.

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Japan suspects HGV missile data leak in Mitsubishi security breach

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Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and the Ministry of Defense. The Defense Ministry was working on a prototype of supersonic missile known as HGV, a technology also being studied by the U.S., Now, the authorities suspect a data leak that could have exposed details of a prototype missile.

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Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack

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Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense. “In a case study on its website, Trend Micro lists Mitsubishi Electric as one of the companies that run the OfficeScan suite.” An attempted attack requires user authentication.” SP1 for Windows.

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Russian submarines threatening undersea cables, UK defence chief warns

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Their security is crucial and intelligence agencies are alerting their governments about possible attacks from rogues states. Threat actors can do it by inserting backdoors during the cable manufacturing process, targeting onshore landing stations and facilities that link cables to networks on land, or tapping the cables at sea.

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Expert found Russia’s SORM surveillance equipment leaking user data

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The Russian Government obliges national ISPs to purchase and install the probes used by SORM system that allows the Federal Security Service (FSB) to monitor Internet traffic including online communications. Petersburg on August 25, technical details of his study are reported a paper titled “ SORM Defects.”.