The Hacker News

APRIL 19, 2023

Elite hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence service have been linked to large-volume phishing campaigns aimed at hundreds of users in Ukraine to extract intelligence and influence public discourse related to the war.

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The Hacker News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

based military weapons and hardware supplier. Recorded Future attributed the new infrastructure to a threat activity group it tracks under the name TAG-53, and is broadly known by the cybersecurity community as Blue Callisto,

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The Hacker News

MARCH 8, 2022

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said it took down two Blogspot domains that were used by the nation-state group FancyBear (aka APT28) – which is attributed to Russia's GRU military

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

China-linked Curious Gorge APT is targeting Russian government agencies, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that an APT group linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLA SSF), tracked as Curious Gorge , is targeting Russian government agencies.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 22, 2024

Researchers at Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) have published their findings about a group they have dubbed Coldriver. The main targets of the Coldriver group are high-profile individuals in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), former intelligence and military officials, and NATO governments.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The researchers from Google TAG are warning of Russia-linked threat actors targeting Ukraine with phishing campaigns. Russia-linked threat actors launched large-volume phishing campaigns against hundreds of users in Ukraine to gather intelligence and aimed at spreading disinformation, states Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

RFID gun tags leave the military exposed to tracking, sniffing and spoofing attacks, experts say. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2022

The campaign took place in February and Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team was not able to link it to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) director Shane Huntley confirmed that the IT giant was able to detect and block all phishing messages. government. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In March 2023, security firm Proofpoint observed the group actively exploiting vulnerabilities ( CVE-2022-27926 ) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats. The messages were sent from team.managment@outlook[.]com ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. TAG believes that the ARCHIPELAGO group is a subset of a threat actor tracked by Mandiant as APT43. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The data were provided by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which tracks government-backed hacking campaign, which warns of a significant increase in the number of the alert compared to the previous year. ” wrote Ajax Bash, a Google security engineer from the TAG.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Shane Huntley, the head of the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), wrote on Twitter that his group had sent an above-average batch of government-backed security warnings. . TAG sent a above average batch of government-backed security warnings yesterday.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 18, 2022

As both the nations are supporting Ukraine by supplying essential commodities to innocent civilians, Putin has tagged both the nations as adversaries to Russian Federation from April this year. It is facing an extreme scarcity of arms and ammunition on the battlefield and so should solve the issue through a fresh dialogue. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

Lazarus Group that is being funded by North Korea Military Intelligence is reportedly using signed executable to mimic a Coinbase website in order to attract employees and customers. United States Intelligence Community has given the group as Hidden Cobra and Microsoft has tagged the name of this group as ZINC.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

March 8 – Google TAG: Russia, Belarus-linked APTs targeted Ukraine. Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukraine and European government and military orgs. March 8 – Ukraine’s CERT-UA warns of phishing attacks against Ukrainian citizens.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

In March 2022, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) spotted phishing and malware attacks targeting Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine. The researchers uncovered a phishing campaign conducted by the COLDRIVER (aka Calisto ) APT against a NATO Centre of Excellence and Eastern European militaries.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Outlook NTLM exploit “Additionally, Microsoft confirmed that the flaw had been exploited as a zero day as part of limited attacks against government, transportation, energy, and military targets organizations in Europe by a Russia-based threat actor,” Narang said.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2021

Every Year only those who pass out with flying colors are moved to Universities where they are trained in related fields such as computer science and military warfare and after that they are tagged as a member of elite army comprising 7000 individuals (for now) who are well versed in spreading digital chaos and confusion on the World Wide Web.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The offensive volunteer unit Aushev said he is organizing would help Ukraine's military conduct digital espionage operations against invading Russian forces.". Follow SecureWorld News to stay up to date on the latest developments in Ukraine (using the Russia-Ukraine tag below).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

“The payment data exfiltration takes place via an <img> tag whose src parameter is changed to hxxps://terminal4.veeblehosting[.]com/~sucurrin/i/gate.php veeblehosting[.]com/~sucurrin/i/gate.php com/~sucurrin/i/gate.php , with relevant GET parameters such as card number, CVV, and expiration date stored in plain text.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. ” reads the analysis published by the expert. ” continues the analysis.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 7, 2021

Nation states represent a significant, persistent cyber espionage and attack threat to our military and critical infrastructure systems,” said John Loucaides, VP Federal Technology at Eclypsium. “As This lower level of visibility is essential to a resilient cybersecurity strategy.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 8, 2024

It stressed the need to protect sensitive information and cultivated a culture of silence over military matters. Laser microphone listening devices (some with a range of ~600m) which were once only available to the military are now available for anyone buy. There are positives and negatives of course.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2023

EclecticIQ analysts identified the same email address in a recent phishing email campaign sent to a Ukrainian military address on February 9, 2023 (5), indicating that the exposed panel was very likely used for malware delivery.htaccess Reveals Additional Adversary Infrastructure EclecticIQ analysts identified that the “.htaccess”

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2018

government should opt to carry out hack backs as retaliation against the massive attacks against organizations in the US private sector, and when appropriate, the military’s hacking unit should hit back, this is what three experts said at a panel organized by APCO. intelligence or military operations.”

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Javvad Malik

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Yes, it’s all very macho military – but it’s no different than running an incident recovery. But hold on, Dillon is tagging along. It’s behind enemy lines, to get the people who went in to get the people. You make a plan, go in, save the data, get out. The kind of stuff the SAS excel at.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

The ColdRiver APT (aka “ Seaborgium “, “Callisto”, “Star Blizzard”, “TA446”) is a Russian cyberespionage group that has been targeting government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since at least 2015. In November 2022, TAG spotted COLDRIVER sending targets benign PDF documents from impersonation accounts.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Encryption holds very ancient roots in human society, most obviously in military communications, where it’s designed to conceal the true message from enemies attempting to intercept to learn about troop movements and strategies. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag!

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Adaptive Monitoring and Tagging. This includes active tagging of workloads, threat hunting , and virus assessments, and consistent evaluation of traffic for mission-critical applications, data, or services. Once your micro-perimeters surround your most sensitive segments, there’s a need for ongoing monitoring and adaptive technology.

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SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2023

Other factors are a lack of certain candidate requirements, such as a higher education, military service record, absence of prior convictions, and so on. Changes on the market, layoffs, and pay cuts, too, often prompt them to look for a job on cybercrime websites. Legal age is the main requirements that many ads have in common.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 24, 2021

However, the method of using personal items as proofs of identity has not faded with history, with institutions such as the military using dog tags as individual identifiers for each soldier. 1046 BC – Tattoos. Another historical identification method was the use of tattoos. 1961 – The first computer password.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

Operational Security is typically a military process. US Army Video: Operations security or OpSec, preserves the effectiveness of military capabilities and keeps potential adversaries from discovering our critical information. It was first used during the US Vietnam War in the late 1960s.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2023

using our tag "CryptoScam" (as of this writing we have 3600+ sites on the list -- hosting companies and registrars, please take action!) Steynberg Arrested in Brazil Mr. Steynberg was arrested in 2022 by the Brazilian Military Police of the state of Goias: [link] Assurances from MTI CEO Steynberg: I am not a Ponzi Scheme!

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Some, like Adam Van Prooyan, just kind of wandered into that path, in part because he was interested in computers, and also because the West Point Military Academy just happened to have a CTF team that competes in the annual Cyberstakes competition. Vamosi: So, not everyone is in a military academy. Cyber 600 and that was.

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