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Iran’s Mahan Air claims it has failed a cyber attack, hackers say the opposite

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Iranian airline Mahan Air was hit by a cyberattack on Sunday morning, the “Hooshyarane Vatan” hacker group claimed responsibility for the attack. Iranian private airline Mahan Air has foiled a cyber attack over the weekend, Iranian state media reported. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Iran’s Mahan Air).

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks have since been attributed to state-funded threat actors.

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Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack

Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. According to ZDNet, the hackers involved in the attack against the Mitsubishi Electric have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan to infect company servers.

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Air India suffered a data breach, 4.5 million customers impacted

Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

million of its customers, two months after its Passenger Service System provider SITA was hacked. million of its customers, exposed data includes the personal information of customers registered between August. 26, 2011 and February. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Air India). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Russia-linked threat actors targets critical infrastructure, US authorities warn

Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Some of the hacking campaigns that were publicly attributed to Russian state-sponsored APT actors by U.S. Russian state-sponsored APT actors’ global Energy Sector intrusion campaign, 2011 to 2018. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Russia-linked threat actors). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Purple Lambert, a new malware of CIA-linked Lambert APT group

Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

Across the years, the researchers found analyzed multiple backdoors and hacking tools composing the arsenal of the cyberespionage group. Researchers at company firm Symantec reportedly linked the CIA hacking tools to a number of cyber attacks launched in recent years by a threat actor the company identified as the Longhorn group. “The

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Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, media blame China-linked APT

Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Kan said, “I was notified that it was confirmed that there was no leak of sensitive information such as defense equipment and electric power.” ” The two media outlets attribute the cyber attack to a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Tick (aka Bronze Butler ). . ” reported Kyodo News.

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The Essential Guide to Radio Frequency Penetration Testing

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

Introduction Radio Frequency (RF) penetration testing, popularly referred to as RF pentesting, stands as a vital domain within ethical hacking. Different wireless technologies operate within the RF spectrum, each utilizing specific frequency bands based on their intended applications (Molisch, 2011). IEEE Access, 6, 12725-12738.

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Dissecting the malicious arsenal of the Makop ransomware gang

Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

In particular, recent investigations were able to identify four of them: the ARestore escalation tool, the backdoor, and other publicly available toolkits such as Advanced_Port_Scanner and a particular popular Chinese hack tool. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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Iran-linked Phosphorous APT hacked emails of security conference attendees

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Iran-linked APT group Phosphorus successfully hacked into the email accounts of multiple high-profile individuals and security conference attendees. “Phosphorus, an Iranian actor, has targeted with this scheme potential attendees of the upcoming Munich Security Conference and the Think 20 (T20) Summit in Saudi Arabia.”

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Charming Kitten APT is targeting Iranian dissidents in Germany

Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2023

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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Iranian Charming Kitten APT targets various entities in Brazil, Israel, and the U.A.E. using a new backdoor

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at least since 2013, but experts believe that the cyberespionage group has been active since at least 2011 targeting journalists and activists in the Middle East, as well as organizations in the United States, and entities in the U.K., using a new backdoor appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Updates from the MaaS: new threats delivered through NullMixer

Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

During the recent period, Italy has been heavily targeted by cyber attacks, especially from young collectives of cyber-partisans supporting the Kremlin’s propaganda such as Killnet and NoName057. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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US Treasury imposes sanctions on a Russian research institute behind Triton malware

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2020

“In August 2017, a petrochemical facility in the Middle East was the target of a cyber-attack involving the Triton malware. Some of the TEMP.Veles hacking tools were tested using an unnamed online scan service. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Triton). According to the experts, the infection caused an explosion.

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Iran’s Mahan Air claims it has failed a cyber attack, hackers say the opposite

SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

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Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack

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Air India suffered a data breach, 4.5 million customers impacted

Russia-linked threat actors targets critical infrastructure, US authorities warn

Purple Lambert, a new malware of CIA-linked Lambert APT group

Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, media blame China-linked APT

The Essential Guide to Radio Frequency Penetration Testing

Dissecting the malicious arsenal of the Makop ransomware gang

Iran-linked Phosphorous APT hacked emails of security conference attendees

Charming Kitten APT is targeting Iranian dissidents in Germany

Iranian Charming Kitten APT targets various entities in Brazil, Israel, and the U.A.E. using a new backdoor

Updates from the MaaS: new threats delivered through NullMixer

US Treasury imposes sanctions on a Russian research institute behind Triton malware

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