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Russia-linked APT used a car for sale as a phishing lure to target diplomats with HeadLace malware

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A Russia-linked APT used a car for sale as a phishing lure to deliver a modular Windows backdoor called HeadLace. Unit 42 pointed out that other threat groups, like Cloaked Ursa , in 2023 used an advertisement for a BMW for sale to target diplomatic missions within Ukraine.

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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

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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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Classified NATO documents sold on darkweb after they were stolen from Portugal

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After discovering that Classified NATO documents belonging to the Armed Forces General Staff agency of Portugal (EMGFA) were offered for sale on the darkweb, the Portuguese agency discovered it has suffered a cyberattack. It is responsible for the planning, command and control of the Portuguese Armed Forces.

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The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data

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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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EU bodies agree on new EU export rules for dual-use technology

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The European Union this week agreed to tighten up rules for the sale and export of dual-use technology. European Parliament votes to tighten up rules for the sale and export of surveillance and encryption technology. The term “ dual-use ” refers to technology that can be used for both peaceful and military aims.

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Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have stolen data from Boeing

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billion in sales, the aerospace giant has 156,000 (2022). “Boeing, the 60 billion Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, services, and supports commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide.”

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 476 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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