Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

During a video conference of the members of the European Council, EU leaders agreed on a new strategy aimed at boosting defense and security. The EU leaders emphasized that they looked forward to cooperating with the new US administration on a strong and ambitious transatlantic agenda that included a close dialogue on security and defence.

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AUGUST 6, 2023

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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. The post Threat actor claims to have hacked European manufacturer of missiles MBDA appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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 However, this indictment demonstrates that borders are not barriers to prosecuting bad actors who threaten our national security.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2020

According to security researchers from Trend Micro, the Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group has been scanning vulnerable email servers for more than a year. The cyberespionage group continues to target members of defense companies, embassies, governments, and the military. ” reads the report published by Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Security Affairs – Newsletter ). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 186 – News of the week appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Pierluigi Paganini.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

Researcher Sylvain Pelissier has discovered that the DataVault encryption software made by ENC Security and used by multiple vendors is affected by a couple of key derivation function issues. ” reads the presentation of the speech published on the rc3 website. ” reads the security advisory published by ENC.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

However, Macron said that France will favor European providers of 5G technology due to security concerns. It’s normal that … we want a European solution” because of the importance of “the security of our communication,” Macron told reporters. ” reported the Associated Press agency. .'”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Security researchers at the Mandiant Threat Intelligence team believe that Ghostwriter APT group is linked to the government of Belarus. In August 2020, security experts from FireEye uncovered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO by spreading fake news content on compromised news websites. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The officials pointed out that these interferences are unacceptable because threaten the integrity and security of the targeted states, and pose risk to the EU democracies. According to FireEye, the campaign, tracked as GhostWriter, has been ongoing since at least March 2017 and is aligned with Russian security interests.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2022

The activity of the Lyceum APT group was first documented earlier in August 2019 by researchers at ICS security firm Dragos which tracked it as Hexane. 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.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2023

During a meeting of security chiefs of the Five Eyes alliance held in California, McCallum told BBC that the Chinese cyber espionage reached an epic scale. “And we know that authoritarian states are laser-focused on the opportunities that these technologies may present for them.” ” reported BBC.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2019

The security incident has happened in July at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant at Yuzhnoukrainsk, in the south of the country. The equipment was discovered present in the power plant’s administration offices. ” reported ZDnet. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – nuclear power plant, hacking).

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Krebs on Security

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. ” Stalker himself credited Djamix with keeping Mazafaka online for so many years. Some of those photos date back to 2008.

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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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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Learn more from this blog summarizing these trends, as presented at #CyberWarCon : [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2021. The post Iran-linked APT groups continue to evolve appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Operation Cyclone).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 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 post Russia-linked APT28 uses COVID-19 lures to deliver Zebrocy malware appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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. ” concludes Anomaly. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

We've brought technology from our past into the present by creating emulators for Enigma, Typex and The Bombe in #CyberChef. The GCHQ developed emulators for Enigma, Typex and the Bombe that could be executed in the CyberChef , The Enigma machines were used by the German military to protect communications during the Second World War.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The list of Crypto’s customers included Iran, India and Pakistan, military juntas in Latin America and the Vatican. The events under discussion date back to 1945 and are difficult to reconstruct and interpret in the present-day context,”. The company was completely under the control of the spy agencies since 1970.

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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. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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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. National Security Agency (NSA) stating that NSA’s Director of Cybersecurity Anne Neuberger is slated to host a call on Jan.

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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

JUNE 8, 2019

A security researcher found new evidence of activities conducted by the ICEFOG APT group, also tracked by the experts as Fucobha. Chi-en (Ashley) Shen, a senior security researcher at FireEye, collected evidence that demonstrates that China-linked APT group ICEFOG (aka Fucobha ) is still active. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

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. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Government Accountability Office audit last week found that the defense department is playing catch up when it comes to securing weapons systems from cyberattacks. military and civilian personnel were compromised. The result: personal information and credit card data of at least 30,000 U.S. Timely trust decisions.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Security researchers revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom used BGP hijacking to misdirect Internet traffic through China. Security researchers Chris C. gov’’) and military (‘‘.mil’’) ” states the paper. The incident also affected US government (‘‘.gov’’) mil’’) websites. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2019

SyTech , a contractor for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has been hacked, attackers stole data about interna l projects. Attackers have hacked SyTech, a contractor for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), and exfiltrated data about interna l projects. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When scanned, an AirTag in Lost Mode will present a short message asking the finder to call the owner at at their specified phone number. The vulnerability was discovered and reported to Apple by Bobby Rauch , a security consultant and penetration tester based in Boston. A sample “Lost Mode” message.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is warning of risks posed by location services for staff who work in defence or national security. The United States National Security Agency (NSA) published a new guide to warn of the risks posed by location services for staff who work in defence or national security.

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