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Operation Spalax, an ongoing malware campaign targeting Colombian entities

Security Affairs

Security experts from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax , against Colombian government institutions and private companies. Malware researchers from ESET uncovered an ongoing surveillance campaign, dubbed Operation Spalax , against Colombian entities exclusively. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 209 – News of the week

Security Affairs

DNS hijacking campaigns target Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal users. Experts spotted the iOS version of the Exodus surveillance app. Gulf countries came under hackers spotlight in 2018, with more than 130 000 payment cards compromised. Yoroi Welcomes Yomi: The Malware Hunter. [SI-LAB] Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2021

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The PyInstaller module for Windows contains a script named “Guard” Interestingly, this malware was developed for both Windows and macOS operating systems. The malware tries to spread to other hosts on the network by infecting USB drives. After this, they were tricked into downloading previously unknown malware.

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Reading the Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018

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Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018 – In 2018 cyber-security experts observed an increased number of cyber attacks, malware endure to be the most aggressive and pervasive threat. Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018 analyzes the evolution of the threat landscape observed between January 2018 and December 2018.

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US authorities track MuddyWater Hacking Group to Iran

CyberSecurity Insiders

US Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force has identified a new hacking group dubbed MuddyWater and tracked its operations to an Iranian intelligence funded company.

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APT trends report Q1 2022

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Disclaimer: when referring to APT groups as Russian-speaking, Chinese-speaking or other-“speaking” languages, we refer to various artefacts used by the groups (such as malware debugging strings, comments found in scripts, etc.) On February 23, ESET published a tweet announcing new wiper malware targeting Ukraine.

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Group-IB presents its annual report on global threats to stability in cyberspace

Security Affairs

Compared to its predecessors, the sixth “Hi-Tech Crime Trends” report is the first to contain chapters devoted to the main industries attacked and covers the period from H2 2018 to H1 2019, as compared to the period from H2 2017 to H1 2018. As for 2019, it has become the year of covert military operations in cyberspace.

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