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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A phishing campaign targets Ukrainian military entities using drone manuals as lures to deliver the post-exploitation toolkit Merlin. The campaign, codenamed STARK#VORTEX by Securonix, targets Ukrainian military entities and CERT-UA attributed it to a threat actor tracked as UAC-0154. ” reads the analysis published by Securonix.

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JUNE 29, 2024

The US military wants to team up with the private sector to protect assets everyone relies on. As more and more infrastructure is deployed in space, the risk of cyber attacks increases.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Ukrainian government’s military intelligence service announced the hack of the Russian Federal Taxation Service (FNS). The military intelligence service said that the hack was the result of a successful special operation on the territory of Russia. At the same time, the Russian IT company Office.ed-it.ru,

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AUGUST 14, 2023

The Washington Post has the story : The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on—plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current and former U.S. More analysis.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

as members of the PLA’s 54 th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. Attorney General Bill Barr said at a press conference today that the Justice Department doesn’t normally charge members of another country’s military with crimes (this is only the second time the agency has indicted Chinese military hackers).

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JUNE 24, 2023

Army’s Criminal Investigation Division warns that US military personnel have reported receiving unsolicited smartwatches in the mail. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division reported that service members across the military received smartwatches unsolicited in the mail. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked HENSOLDT France, a company specializing in military and defense electronics. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. The post Snatch group claims to have hacked military provider HENSOLDT France appeared first on Security Affairs.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The nation-state actors are known to carry out cyber-espionage against targeting government, military, and national infrastructure entities in Europe and Central Asia since at least December 2020. “TAG70 has demonstrated a high level of sophistication in its attack methods. . ESET researchers also detailed the same attack chain.

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MARCH 18, 2022

Also: Anonymous Continues Its Cyberwar Against the Russian Government As the Ukrainian military resists Russian advances toward its major population centers, its IT security teams are contending with record cyber incidents - although the same is true of their eastern neighbors, with Russia reporting "unprecedented" cyberattacks on its networks.

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MARCH 4, 2020

Defense Department Says No Data Was Compromised Australia reportedly took a sensitive military recruiting database offline for 10 days in February following concerns it may have been compromised. The Defense Department says there's no evidence data was stolen.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

South Korea military exercise. The military drill, the Ulchi Freedom Guardian summer exercises , will start on Monday, August 21, 2023 , and will last 11 days. The military exercises aim at improving the ability of the two armies to respond to North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats. .

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Ukraine’s CERT-UA revealed the national Delta military intelligence program has been targeted with a malware-based attack. ” states the Ukrainian military. . ” states the Ukrainian military. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Delta military intelligence). Pierluigi Paganini.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

The NSA has just declassified and released a redacted version of Military Cryptanalytics , Part III, by Lambros D. Callimahos, October 1977. Parts I and II, by Lambros D. Callimahos and William F. I own them in hardcover. Like Parts I and II, Part III is primarily concerned with pre-computer ciphers. The monograph a while to become public.

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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

APRIL 5, 2022

Anonymous continues to support Ukraine against the Russian criminal invasion targeting the Russian military and propaganda. Anonymous leaked personal details of the Russian military stationed in Bucha where the Russian military carried out a massacre of civilians that are accused of having raped and shot local women and children.

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MAY 8, 2024

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps told House of Commons that the impacted system is not connected to the main military HR system. The Ministry of Defence revealed that a malign actor gained access to part of the Armed Forces payment network, which is an external system completely separate to MOD’s core network.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Ransomware-as-a-Service Group Purports to Sell Indian Military Data on Dark Web The BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service group says it's selling 2 terabytes worth of military data including classified documents culled from Indian explosives and propellant manufacturer Solar Industries.

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JUNE 14, 2023

The IT giant pointed out that Cadet Blizzard is distinct from other known APT groups operating under the control of the Russian military intelligence GRU, such as Forest Blizzard ( STRONTIUM ) and Seashell Blizzard (IRIDIUM). Unlike other Russia-linked APT group, CadetBlizzard operations are extremely disruptive.

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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 5, 2024

Unit 29155 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency—a team responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings—has branched out into brazen hacking operations with targets across the world.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Callimahos’s Military Cryptanalytics, Part III. Late last year, the NSA declassified and released a redacted version of Lambros D. We just got most of the index. It’s hard to believe that there are any real secrets left in this 44-year-old volume.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Chinese threat actors, tracked as Tropic Trooper and KeyBoy, has been targeting air-gapped military networks in Taiwan and the Philippines. Chinese APT group Tropic Trooper, aka KeyBoy, has been targeting air-gapped military networks in Taiwan and the Philippines, Trend Micro researchers reported. ” continues the report.

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MARCH 20, 2020

UK printing company Doxzoo exposed hundreds of gigabytes of information, including documents related to the US and British military. “There are potentially over 100,000 users affected by this data leak, with implications not only for copyright violations, but also American and British military data exposure.”

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JANUARY 26, 2023

The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have hacked SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA and to have stolen 2TB of “secret military data.” The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have breached the company infrastructure and to have stolen 2TB of data, including secret military data related to weapons production.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

Military Intelligence-Linked Group Attacked Ukrainian Energy Sector Firm, Says Eset Security researchers say they found the Russian intelligence-linked Sandworm threat actor deploying a novel disk wiper against an energy sector company located in Ukraine. Data wipers have played a key role in Russia's hacking campaign against Ukraine.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

China-linked threat actor tracked as CactusPete was employing an updated backdoor in recent attacks targeting military and financial organizations in Eastern Europe. If we recall that CactusPete targets military, diplomatic and infrastructure organizations, the information could be very sensitive indeed,” Kaspersky continues.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

military and other agencies for a decade and passing the gear off as American made. Prosecutors Allege Firm Sold Chinese Surveillance Tech That Contained Vulnerabilities Federal prosecutors have charged a Long Island company, along with seven of its employees, with selling vulnerability-laden Chinese technology to the U.S.

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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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JANUARY 3, 2024

Hackers Used the Cameras to Spy on Ukraine's Air Defenses, Critical Infrastructure The Russian military hacked into surveillance cameras to spy on Ukrainian air defenses and Kyiv's critical infrastructure during the missile and drone strikes on the capital city Tuesday.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

A new piece of the Ryuk malware has been improved to steal confidential files related to the military, government, financial statements, and banking. Targeted keywords in the new variant of the Ryuk stealer confirm that attackers are looking for confidential information in military, banking, finance and law enforcement. .

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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

JUNE 6, 2020

Hackers have stolen confidential documents from the US military contractor Westech, which provides critical support for US Minuteman III nuclear deterrent. The post Maze ransomware operators stole data from US military contractor Westech appeared first on Security Affairs. The LGM-30 Minuteman is a U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JULY 26, 2024

The European Commission is allocating €7.3 billion for defense research over the next seven years. From drones and tanks of the future to battleships and space intelligence, here's what it funds.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A review of this user’s hacker identities shows that during his time on the forums he served as an officer in the special forces of the GRU , the foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Federation. In almost any database leak, the first accounts listed are usually the administrators and early core members. ” Mr.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Network data collected by the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that Turkey has blocked access to social media as Idlib military crisis escalates. in #Turkey where social media have been blocked for six hours after a military incident in #Idlib , Syria. Partial restrictions have also affected YouTube and WhatsApp at the same time.

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JUNE 27, 2024

government charged Russian civilian Amin Stigal with assisting Moscow's GRU military intelligence unit in its use of WhisperGate malware against Ukraine beginning in the weeks leading up to Moscow's all-out invasion, as well as probing America's critical infrastructure.

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