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Russian Cybercrime group is exploiting Zerologon flaw, Microsoft warns

Security Affairs

— Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 6, 2020. To exploit the vulnerability, attackers abuse MSBuild.exe to compile Mimikatz updated with built-in ZeroLogon functionality. — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 6, 2020. states Microsoft. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Israel aims at hardening aviation industry assets from cyberattack

Security Affairs

The defense and aviation industries are particularly exposed to cyber attacks and are adopting new countermeasures to harden their infrastructure and aircraft. “A group of Israeli cybersecurity firms, along with the Economy and Industry Ministry, has set up a new cyber consortium for the aviation industry.

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Iran-linked APT is exploiting the Zerologon flaw in attacks

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Microsoft researchers reported that Iranian cyber espionage group MuddyWater is exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability in attacks in the wild. Microsoft published a post and a series of tweets to warn of cyber attacks exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability carried out by the Iran-linked APT group known as MuddyWater , aka Mercury.

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Iran-linked Phosphorous APT hacked emails of security conference attendees

Security Affairs

.” Microsoft Threat Intelligence Information Center (MSTIC) has uncovered activity by the threat actor PHOSPHOROUS, which has been masquerading as conference organizers and sending spoofed invitations by email to high-profile individuals. Get details here: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 28, 2020.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

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Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

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

Security Affairs

A deeper analysis of some of these samples revealed that they were compiled in 2014 and used in the wild between 2014 and 2015. 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.

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