Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations. Group-IB’s annual report was presented at CyberCrimeCon 2019 international Threat Hunting and Intelligence conference in Singapore. The latter cannot be ignored by any state, corporation, or individual.”.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Attorney Buchanan, the indictment, and other information presented in court: Song allegedly engaged in a multi-year “spear phishing” email campaign in which he created email accounts to impersonate U.S.-based The messages were crafted to trick victims into providing source code or software related to aerospace research and engineering.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 31, 2020

Communication with stakeholders, extensive testing, and robust automation pays dividends for military intelligence agency, one of several presenters at GitLab's virtual Commit conference.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The Gamaredon APT group continues to carry out attacks against entities in Ukraine, including security services, military, and government organizations. If present, the current execution could simply be a scheduled execution triggered by the persistence mechanisms.”

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

The FBI also found what specific pages Al-Azhari visited, including a section on donating Bitcoin; another focused on military operations conducted by ISIS fighters in Iraq, Syria, and Nigeria; and another page that provided links to material from ISIS’s media arm. Someone at the NSA gave a presentation on this ten years ago. (I

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2022

The attackers said that the stolen data includes information about the employees of the company involved in military projects, commercial activities, contract agreements and correspondence with other companies. Adrastea said that they have found critical vulnerabilities in the company infrastructure and have stolen 60 GB of confidential data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Upon enabling the macro, the embedded VBA displays a Russian article titled “Western Assessments of the Progress of the Special Military Operation.” ” The macro launches the “check.bat” script using the “vbHide” parameter to avoid presenting a command prompt window to the victim.

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IT Governance

MARCH 8, 2022

The Ukrainian government and its military were targeted by DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, while a pro-Ukrainian group attacked the Belarusian railway system with ransomware after discovering that it was being used by Russia to transport tanks and weapons.

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Unwritten Record

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

He and his team evoked pageantry and fanfare with live music, large statues, fireworks, symbolic decorations, the release of 2,000 pigeons, a military gun salute and 5,000 entertainers. Disney took the traditional opening event and turned it into the theatrical display we think of today.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 21, 2022

The researchers who performed the assessment believe the same critical vulnerabilities are present in other Micodus tracker models. BitSight found the device in use in 169 countries, with customers including governments, militaries, law enforcement agencies, and aerospace, shipping, and manufacturing companies.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 24, 2012

This shift affects everything from the strategy that guides it to the individuals who oversee it (civilian political appointees) and the lawyers who advise them (civilians rather than military officers). This is virtual reality as a new way of knowledge: a new and terrible kind of transcendent military power. Why not purple dragons? (Ed:

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2023

NPO Mashinostroyeniya (JSC MIC Mashinostroyenia, NPO Mash) is a leading Russian manufacturer of missiles and military spacecraft. The cyberspies targeted NPO Mashinostroyeniya in an attempt to steal highly confidential intellectual property on sensitive missile technology currently in use and under development for the Russian military.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

A previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ has been targeting military and government entities since 2018. Bitdefender researchers discovered a previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ that has been targeting military and government entities since 2018.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

A lack of region locks may also have caused card thieves to gravitate toward buying up as many cards as they could from USAA , a savings bank that caters to active and former military service members and their immediate families. Not long ago, the price of CNP accounts was less than half that of card-present accounts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2024

“We compared the banner hashes that were present on this ASN on October 27, to the banner hashes present on October 28th and observed a drop of ~179k IP addresses that had an ActionTec banner. In addition, this type of attack has only ever happened once before, with AcidRain used as a precursor to an active military invasion.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2020

The attackers were spreading fabricated content, including falsified news articles, quotes, correspondence, and other documents designed to appear as coming from military officials and political figures in the target countries. ” continues the report.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows. Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft Corp. Those sources say Microsoft has quietly shipped a patch for the bug to branches of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Rapid7 found a bypass for the recently patched actively exploited Ivanti EPMM bug Russian APT29 conducts phishing attacks through Microsoft Teams Hackers already installed web shells on 581 Citrix servers in CVE-2023-3519 attacks Zero-day in Salesforce email services exploited in targeted Facebook phishing campaign Burger King forgets to put a password (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2023

“And we know that authoritarian states are laser-focused on the opportunities that these technologies may present for them.” The BBC reported the case of an acquisition of a sensitive UK tech company involved in UK military supply chains. ” reported BBC.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The attackers were spreading fabricated content, including falsified news articles, quotes, correspondence, and other documents designed to appear as coming from military officials and political figures in the target countries.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Even today, less than half of the known antivirus engines are flagging the infection on VirusTotal , as observed by BleepingComputer: The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2021

“Nevertheless, Russian intelligence operations pose a major threat to Lithuania’s national security,” State Security Department head Darius Jauniskis told Lithuanian lawmakers during the presentation of the report at the Parliament.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

DataVault is an advanced encryption software to protect user data, it provides comprehensive military grade data protection and security features to multiple systems. ” reads the presentation of the speech published on the rc3 website. Multiple vendors, including WD, Sony and Lexar use the DataVault software.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The cyberespionage group continues to target members of defense companies, embassies, governments, and the military.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A cyber catastrophe may seem inevitable, but there are basic practices and actionable steps any healthcare organization can take to begin reducing the clear and present risk of being impacted by a cybersecurity event. The risks are real, and the impact of cybersecurity events continues to grow. There is a reason organizations like the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2018

military and civilian personnel were compromised. However, over time, an adversary was smart enough to look and see if the vendor relied on lesser cyber protection, thereby presenting a softer target. The result: personal information and credit card data of at least 30,000 U.S. million personnel records from the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

The attack chain observed by the researchers starts with spear-phishing messages using weaponized Word document disguised as a news report related to military affairs in Iran. The AutoClose() function reads a PE file from the text box present on the 7th page of the document. “The dropped binary is a .NET one” = 85[.]206[.]175[.]199

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Unwritten Record

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This solemn memorial, the final resting place of three unknown members of the American military, holds a special place in the hearts and minds of American citizens as we reflect upon the meaning of service and sacrifice this Veterans Day. For a century, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has been the centerpiece of Arlington National Cemetery.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

Back to the present, the Iranian authorities are still investigating the accident, they only revealed that no injuries or pollution were caused by the attack. Last week, a spokesman for the Iranian military blamed Israel and the US for an explosion on the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Saviz vessel in the Red Sea.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2022

SideWinder has been active since at least 2012, the group main targeted Police, Military, Maritime, and the Naval forces of Central Asian countries. Below are the slides presented by the Kaspersky researcher Noushin Shabab at the BlackHat Asia 2022: Download Slides.

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Unwritten Record

JANUARY 26, 2021

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we wanted to share a story that highlights how materials held by the National Archives and Records Administration are used to connect the past with the present. It is rare to locate and positively identify specific people who appear in the footage shot by the US military.

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IT Governance

MARCH 18, 2021

For example, it is authorised to interfere with mobile phones to stop terrorists communicating with their contacts, and can implement defences to protect military aircraft from weapons systems. This is in line with what little we know about the tools at the NCF’s disposal. UK cyber security strategy.

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IT Governance

JUNE 16, 2022

Unlike War of the Worlds , which garnered such a strong reaction in part because of the improbability of the story – an alien invasion – The Undeclared War presents something that we are being regularly warned about. Let’s just hope that its show lives up to the hype and presents the genuine risks of a nation-state cyber attack.

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Unwritten Record

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The records of the military branches are a particularly plentiful source of material, with footage from the 1921 ceremony through the early 21st century. These films were created to document visits to the Tomb by military officials, diplomats, and U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Russia-linked Gamaredon cyberespionage group has been targeting Ukrainian targets, including diplomats, government and military officials. Russia linked APT group tracked as Gamaredon has been targeting several Ukrainian diplomats, government and military officials, and law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

The popular cryptographer and researcher Moxie claims the list of customers of the company includes authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russia, Venezuela, and China, death squads in Bangladesh, and military juntas in Myanmar. Industry-standard exploit mitigation defenses are missing, and many opportunities for exploitation are present”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The announcement comes ahead of the presentation of a long-term review of national security strategy to parliament on Tuesday which could lead to a reduction in armed forces personnel. Prime Minister Boris Johnson recognizes the importance of protecting his country from attacks originating in cyberspace, a new domain of warfare.

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