Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2025

Mustang Panda has been active since at least 2012, targeting American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organizations at the Vatican. In the 2022 campaigns, threat actors used European Union reports on the conflict in Ukraine and Ukrainian government reports as lures.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2022

has indicted four Russian government employees for their involvement in attacks on entities in critical infrastructure. has indicted four Russian government employees for their role in cyberattacks targeting hundreds of companies and organizations in the energy sector worldwide between 2012 and 2018. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The US government has known about it for almost as long, and has tried to keep the attack secret: China’s exploitation of products made by Supermicro, as the U.S. The US government has known about it for almost as long, and has tried to keep the attack secret: China’s exploitation of products made by Supermicro, as the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Davis , a former Democratic state representative from Kansas handed $85 (PDF) to Web Listings in 2012. The fundraising committee for Republican Dick Black ‘s 2012 campaign for the Virginia Senate also paid Web Listings Inc. $85. Image: Better Business Bureau. three years in a row ( 2016 , 2017 and 2018).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Government Payment Service Inc. — a company used by thousands of U.S. Indianapolis-based GovPayNet , doing business online as GovPayNow.com , serves approximately 2,300 government agencies in 35 states. GovPayNow.com displays an online receipt when citizens use it to settle state and local government fees and fines via the site.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The BMDS isn’t the only military defense system to receive a failing grade in security; a report issued by the Government Accountability Office earlier this year found that nearly all of U.S. weapons systems developed between 2012 and 2017 are vulnerable to cyberattacks, despite regular warnings from government watchdogs. .

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

The government alleged that between December 2010 and September 2014, the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to identify or pay to identify blocks of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that were registered to others but which were otherwise inactive. .'” Adconion was acquired in June 2014 by Amobee , a Redwood City, Calif.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 2, 2021

A North Korean threat actor active since 2012 has been behind a new espionage campaign targeting high-profile government officials associated with its southern counterpart to install an Android and Windows backdoor for collecting sensitive information.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Flushed with venture capital funding in 2012, Norse’s founders started hiring dozens of talented cybersecurity professionals. Extensive government work experience from working with federal governments.” By 2014 it was throwing lavish parties at top Internet security conferences.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 23, 2018

On June 25, 2012, Islam and nearly two-dozen others were caught up in an FBI dragnet dubbed Operation Card Shop. The government accused Islam of being a founding member of carders[dot]org — a credit card fraud forum — trafficking in stolen credit card information, and possessing information for more than 50,000 credit cards.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

companies and government entities. A New Jersey grand jury indicted Kovalev in 2012 after an investigation by the U.S. The 2012 indictment against Kovalev relates to cybercrimes he allegedly perpetrated prior to the creation of Trickbot. .” government’s first swipe at the Trickbot group. This is not the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The government also indicted and sanctioned a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon , whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia’s most active money laundering networks. Joker’s sold cards stolen in a steady drip of breaches at U.S. This batch of some five million cards put up for sale Sept.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 22, 2018

From the Lookout announcement: Dark Caracal has operated a series of multi-platform campaigns starting from at least January 2012, according to our research. It primarily targets mobile devices compromised by fake secure messaging clients like Signal and WhatsApp. The campaigns span across 21+ countries and thousands of victims.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 19, 2019

George Washington University Professor Orin Kerr ‘s 2017 dissection of the government’s charges is worth a read for a deep dive on this sticky legal issue. “Attachment A” beginning on page 15 outlines the government’s case against Hutchins and an alleged co-conspirator. The plea agreement is here (PDF).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers from Sentinel Labs have discovered the digital activities of Aoquin Dragon group and have confirmed that the primary focus of the APT was to conduct espionage on government operations happening across Cambodia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, and the Anthony Albanese-led nation.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

According to the media, these are the largest penalties imposed by the Kremlin on Western IT firms under internet use laws since 2012. Roskomnadzor is attempting to oblige the IT giants, including Facebook, Twitter, and Google to move data related to Russian citizens to servers in Russia allowing the Government to monitor them.,

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2021

The Kimsuky APT—also known as Thallium, Black Banshee, and Velvet Chollima—is a North Korean threat actor that has been active since 2012. The group conducts cyber espionage operations to target government entities mainly in South Korea. This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi. Victimology. Command and Control infrastructure.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

According to cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint , MrMurza has been active in the Russian underground since at least September 2012. 2012, from an Internet address in Magnitogorsk, RU. MrMurza also told the admin that his account number at the now-defunct virtual currency Liberty Reserve was U1018928.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 10, 2023

NOTE- Every developed country like the United States, the UK, China, Russia, and Iran has launched its own set of surveillance campaigns from 2012 and each has a different aim of spying on its populace n politicians, bureaucrats, and businesspersons of international fame.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It's also why the United States has blocked the cybersecurity company Kaspersky from selling its Russian-made antivirus products to US government agencies. Last year, Le Monde reported that the Chinese government bugged the computer network of the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

And virtually all IRRs have disallowed its use since at least 2012, said Adam Korab , a network engineer and security researcher based in Houston. “LEVEL 3 is the last IRR operator which allows the use of this method, although they have discouraged its use since at least 2012,” Korab told KrebsOnSecurity.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has disrupted a giant botnet built and operated by a Russian government intelligence unit known for launching destructive cyberattacks against energy infrastructure in the United States and Ukraine. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. energy facilities. energy facilities.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And four, that it is the role of government to create trust in society. I wrote about this in 2012 in a book called Liars and Outliers. In today’s society we regularly trust—or not—governments, corporations, brands, organizations, groups. With governments. They will not be trustworthy.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 24, 2019

I think this is a major change in government position. There's no longer a difference between consumer tech and government tech -- it's all the same tech. Moreover, in 2012 every CALEA-enabled switch sold to the Defense Department had security vulnerabilities. (I That telecommunications company was GTE­which became Verizon.

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Google Security

MAY 23, 2025

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and others in government, industry, and academia to develop and transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), which is expected to be resistant to quantum computing attacks. Google has long worked with the U.S.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 14, 2019

I think this is a major change in government position. There's no longer a difference between consumer tech and government tech -- it's all the same tech. Moreover, in 2012 every CALEA-enabled switch sold to the Defense Department had security vulnerabilities. (I That telecommunications company was GTE -- which became Verizon.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

” Another important distinction between this week’s coordinated action and past booter site takedowns was that the government actually tested each service it dismantled to validate claims about attack firepower and to learn more about how each service conducted assaults. ” DOWN THEM ALL.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2021

A British court has rejected the request of the US government to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the country. government will likely appeal the decision. ” The case against Julian Assange is the most dangerous threat to US press freedom in decades. Of course, the U.S.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Thousands of US state and local governments use the service to process online payments for everything from traffic tickets to court fines.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United States. A 2012 sales thread on Darkode for Rev Locker.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. Recently organizations in healthcare, research, and government facilities have been hit by Coronavirus-themed attacks that deployed multiple malware families, including ransomware and information stealers (i.e.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 29, 2021

However, they could not weed out the objective of Aquatic Panda in finding ways to gain access to intellectual property related to telecom, government and few technology companies. Note- Found in 2012, Aquatic Panda is found relying heavily on cobalt strike, the remote access exploiting tool.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2023

Alloy Taurus, a Chinese APT , has been active since 2012. The group is known to target telecommunication companies but in recent years has also been observed targeting financial and government institutions. Along with the new variant, another backdoor called Sword2033 was also identified by the researchers.

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Anton on Security

MAY 27, 2021

In this post, I wanted to quickly touch on this very topic and refresh some past analysis of this (and perhaps reminisce on how sad things were in 2012 ). Cloud providers haven’t necessarily simplified this journey for customers, even though, compared to 2012 , decent logs actually exist today in many cases.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense. This morning, at a press conference, Yoshii Kan, a secretary-general of Japan, said that the company had reported the intrusion. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun. ” reported Kyodo News.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February 2018 when researchers revealed that the APT group leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to deliver malware to South Korean users. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. That’s what the government believes. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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