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Earth Kurma APT is actively targeting government and telecommunications orgs in Southeast Asia

Security Affairs

Earth Kurma APT carried out a sophisticated campaign against government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia. Trend Research exposed the Earth Kurma APT campaign targeting Southeast Asias government and telecom sectors. Earth Kurma particularly targeted the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia.

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Change Healthcare Breach Hits 100M Americans

Krebs on Security

The chief information security officer for a large academic healthcare system affected by the breach told KrebsOnSecurity they participated in a call with the FBI and were told a third party partner managed to recover at least four terabytes of data that was exfiltrated from Change by the cybercriminal group.

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Italian police arrested a Chinese national suspected of cyberespionage on a U.S. warrant

Security Affairs

government, including the US Treasury. The man is also accused of 2020 attacks on U.S. “Zewei Xu is wanted by the FBI for allegedly being part of a team of hackers that allegedly carried out espionage operations, particularly in 2020 on anti-COVID vaccines being produced at the University of Texas.” authorities.

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Brazilian citizen charged for threatening to release data stolen from a company in 2020

Security Affairs

charges for allegedly threatening to release data stolen from a company in a March 2020 security breach. government has charged the Brazilian citizen Junior Barros De Oliveira, 29, with allegedly threatening to release data stolen from a company during a March 2020 security breach. A Brazilian citizen faces U.S.

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EU announced sanctions on three members of Russia’s GRU Unit 29155

Security Affairs

The EU sanctioned three members of Russia’s GRU Unit 29155 for cyberattacks on Estonia’s government agencies in 2020. “The Council today adopted additional restrictive measures against three Russian individuals responsible for a series of cyberattacks carried out against the Republic of Estonia in 2020. .

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T-Mobile is one of the victims of the massive Chinese breach of telecom firms

Security Affairs

telecoms, compromising networks to steal call records and access private communications, mainly of government and political figures. The US agencies confirmed that Chinese threat actors had compromised the private communications of a “limited number” of government officials following the compromise of multiple U.S.

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New Ghostwriter campaign targets Ukrainian Government and opposition activists in Belarus

Security Affairs

A Ghostwriter campaign using a new variant of PicassoLoader targets opposition activists in Belarus, and Ukrainian military and government organizations. SentinelLABS observed a new Ghostwriter campaign targeting Belarusian opposition activists and Ukrainian military and government entities with a new variant of PicassoLoader.