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Russia-linked Turla APT targets Austria, Estonia, and NATO platform

Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

Russia-linked APT group Turla was observed targeting the Austrian Economic Chamber, a NATO eLearning platform, and the Baltic Defense College. The researchers investigated the TURLA’s infrastructures starting from the domains in the TAG report: wkoinfo.webredirect[.]org Researchers from SEKOIA.IO Researchers from SEKOIA.IO

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Indian power generation giant Tata Power hit by a cyber attack

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

” reported The Economic Times. The Economic Times, citing a senior official from the Maharashtra Police’s cyber unit, confirmed that local authorities warned of a threat to electricity companies in the country, including Tata Power.

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China-linked threat actors target Indian Power Grid organizations

Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2022

The security firm is tracking this cluster of malicious activities under the moniker Threat Activity Group 38 aka TAG-38. “The prolonged targeting of Indian power grid assets by Chinese state-linked groups offers limited economic espionage or traditional intelligence-gathering opportunities.

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News on WhatsApp listening to sleeping users and Doctors fraternity raising voice against AI threat to humanity

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 10, 2023

said Musk, by directly tagging the same to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg. On Tuesday, the Tesla Chief raised concerns that “WhatsApp cannot be trusted” when it comes to keeping its user data private and secure from snooping eyes. “If

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HUMAN Orchestrates Unprecedented Private Takedown, VASTFLUX

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

HUMAN worked closely with its partners in the Human Collective to get additional insight into traffic volumes and verification tags they were using on their ads. We leverage modern defense to disrupt the economics of cybercrime by increasing the cost to cybercriminals while simultaneously reducing the cost of collective defense.

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The Price Tag for Secure Systems is Way Too High

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

Considering the current economic climate, and with the impact of phishing and other serious cyberthreats forecast to intensify, the price for effective cyber-protection is staggeringly high. The post The Price Tag for Secure Systems is Way Too High appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Changing Behavior Of Malware Payloads

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

One of the interesting things about tracking malware campaigns is their changing behavior as the campaigns shift to different targets, employ new tactics to evade detection, and propagate new malware, based on the changing economics of the campaigns. The Advent Of The VisitorTracker Malware. Here’s a JavaScript example of VisitorTracker.

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Cybersecurity Mergers Flatline. Here’s Why That Won’t Last.

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

With interest rates rising precipitously and growing fears of an economic slowdown, there has been less willingness to take on financial commitments. As for the price tag on the deal, it’s estimated at $200 to $250 million. That is a level not seen since 2017, when there were 52 acquisitions. What’s going on?

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HUMAN Cements Leadership Position in Bot Mitigation and Fight Against Fraud

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2021

HUMAN’s rebrand from White Ops was also central to its growth in the first half of 2021, marking a renewed pledge to carry out the team’s long-held mission of protecting the integrity of the internet by disrupting the economics of cybercrime.

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Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Of course, this is the result of economic problems caused by the pandemic. A file that attempts to pass itself as ‘image/png’ but does not have the proper.PNG format loads a PHP web shell in compromised sites by replacing the legitimate shortcut icon tags with a path to the fake.PNG file.

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MY TAKE: Can Project Wildland’s egalitarian platform make Google, Facebook obsolete?

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The project grew out of discussions between Julian Zawistowski, Andrzej Regulski, and Joanna Rutkowska, and combines their interests and expertise in decentralized computing, computer security engineering, and the economics of networks and governance structures. LW: Is this primarily aimed at enterprises, SMBs or individuals?

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Dynamic Approaches seen in AveMaria’s Distribution Strategy

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Upon executing the attached.vhdx file, researchers observed the creation of a new system drive (see Tag 1 in Fig. 3 below) containing a malicious.lnk file, a decoy file, and other system related files (see Tag 2 in Fig. Triggering the malicious shortcut file downloads another payload via curl command (see Tag 3 & 4 in Fig.

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Moodle flaw exposed users to account takeover

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

TeX filter is usually needed for sharing mathematical formulas, so any university with a scientific or economics department, or any field that requires mathematical formulas probably have the TeX filter enabled. This means that the vulnerability our team discovered had existed for 6 years before being discovered and patched.

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US Gov adds surveillance firms Cytrox and Intellexa to Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2023

government added surveillance technology vendors Cytrox and Intellexa to an economic blocklist for trafficking in cyber exploits. In May 2023, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers discovered three campaigns, between August and October 2021, targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities.

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The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

Hyas’s service also pointed to this post on the Facebook page of the Prince George’s County Economic Development Corporation in Maryland, which appears to include a 2017 photo of Mr. Powder posing with county officials. A full list of domains tied to that 868- number is here.

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How to trace ransomware payments end-to-end

Elie

AUGUST 31, 2017

This was a titanesque task as there were 34 families (as shown in the tag cloud above) and hundreds of variants. Setuping this pipeline is worthwhile as it allows to shed unprecedent insights about the ransomware economics that helps combating more efficiently. Increasing coverage via clustering. of this series.

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EU to regulate AI based Facial Recognition

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2021

The much awaited legislation that has been pending on the table for approval may see a light by this year end as it still needs to go through the audit frame work and certification scheme that World Economic Forum has proposed. More details are awaited!

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Russia-linked APT29 group exploited WinRAR 0day in attacks against embassies

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Google TAG experts also observed the Russia-linked ATP28 group exploiting the flaw in attacks against Ukraine users. The economically motivated APT group used specially crafted archives in phishing attacks against forum users through online trading forum posts.

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Russia-linked Turla APT targets Austria, Estonia, and NATO platform

Indian power generation giant Tata Power hit by a cyber attack

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China-linked threat actors target Indian Power Grid organizations

News on WhatsApp listening to sleeping users and Doctors fraternity raising voice against AI threat to humanity

HUMAN Orchestrates Unprecedented Private Takedown, VASTFLUX

The Price Tag for Secure Systems is Way Too High

The Changing Behavior Of Malware Payloads

Cybersecurity Mergers Flatline. Here’s Why That Won’t Last.

HUMAN Cements Leadership Position in Bot Mitigation and Fight Against Fraud

Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

MY TAKE: Can Project Wildland’s egalitarian platform make Google, Facebook obsolete?

Dynamic Approaches seen in AveMaria’s Distribution Strategy

Moodle flaw exposed users to account takeover

US Gov adds surveillance firms Cytrox and Intellexa to Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits

The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks

How to trace ransomware payments end-to-end

EU to regulate AI based Facial Recognition

Russia-linked APT29 group exploited WinRAR 0day in attacks against embassies

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