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Finnish intelligence warns of Russia’s cyberespionage activities

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The Finnish Security Intelligence Service ( SUPO ) warns Russia will highly likely intensify its cyber activity over the winter. The Finnish Security Intelligence Service ( Suojelupoliisi or SUPO ) warn of a highly likely intensification of cyberespionage activities conducted by Russia-linked threat actors over the winter.

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Russian Cybercrime group is exploiting Zerologon flaw, Microsoft warns

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The malicious updates employed in the Zerologon attacks are able to bypass the user account control (UAC) security feature in Windows and abuse the Windows Script Host tool (wscript.exe) to execute malicious scripts. We’re seeing more activity leveraging the CVE-2020-1472 exploit (ZeroLogon). states Microsoft.

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Microsoft spotted multiple malspam campaigns using malware-laced ISO and IMG files

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pic.twitter.com/EbI8kxICQG — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 4, 2020. A more recent Remcos campaign targeted accountants in the US with emails purporting to contain “COVID-19 related updates” for members of American Institute of CPAs.

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STRRAT RAT spreads masquerading as ransomware

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Microsoft Security Intelligence researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is spreading a remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as STRRAT. pic.twitter.com/mGow2sJupN — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 19, 2021. STRRAT RAT was first spotted in June 2020 by G DATA who documented its features.

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5 Components of the Kubernetes Control Plane that Demand Special Attention in Your Security Strategy

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Organizations and security incidents in Kubernetes environments, these are 5 key components of the control plane that demand special attention. Organizations are no strangers to security incidents in their Kubernetes environments. For information on how to secure that part of a Kubernetes cluster, click here. What is it?

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European firm DSIRF behind the attacks with Subzero surveillance malware

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com Running PowerShell scripts directly from a GitHub gist created by an account associated with DSIRF. Researchers from threat intelligence firm RiskIQ, using passive DNS data related to Knotweed attacks, linked the C2 infrastructure used by the malware since February 2020 to DSIRF. or later to detect the related indicators.

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Iran-linked APT groups continue to evolve

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Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed an evolution of the tools, techniques, and procedures employed by Iranian nation-state actors. Learn more from this blog summarizing these trends, as presented at #CyberWarCon : [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) November 16, 2021.

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