Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

The list of targets includes multiple Fortune 500 companies operating in various industry sectors, such as: Global government and military departments National telecommunications companies Defense contractors Technology firms Banking, finance, and accounting institutions Worldwide consulting services Aerospace, aviation, and engineering entities After (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2021

We call on all states to urgently identify and disrupt ransomware criminal networks operating from within their borders, and hold those networks accountable for their actions,” reads the statement.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Raspberry Robin worm attacks aimed at telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. “ANSSI has observed a number of phishing campaigns directed against French entities since February 2021.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In Q1 2023, threat actors linked to Russia’s military intelligence service focused their phishing campaigns on Ukraine, with the country accounting for over 60% of observed Russian targeting. On September 2022, the Sandworm group was observed impersonating telecommunication providers to target Ukrainian entities with malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

. “We will provide updates as more information becomes available.” ” Todd McKinnon, CEO at Okta, confirmed that in late January 2022, the company detected an attempt to compromise the account of a third party customer support engineer working for one of its subprocessors.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The group focuses on government departments that are involved in foreign affairs, technology, and telecommunications. The experts reported that the group exfiltrates documents from target systems and attempts to steal email account credentials.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Government of Bermuda blames Russian threat actors for the cyber attack City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 Government of Bermuda blames Russian threat actors for the cyber attack City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2020

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE are considered as national security threats. regulators declared Huawei and ZTE to be national security threats. Last week China accused the US government of “oppressing Chinese companies” after U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2024

modification – GIFTEDVISITOR” section of Volexity’s recent blog post.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The researchers used their OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) technology to crawl places and resources within the TOR network, across various web forums, Pastebin, IRC channels, social networks, messenger chats and many other locations where it is possible find leaked data. ” states the report published by ImmuniWeb.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

The activity of the Lyceum APT group was first documents earlier of August by researchers at ICS security firm Dragos that tracked it as Hexane. Security experts at Dragos Inc. reported that Hexane is targeting organizations in the oil and gas industry and telecommunication providers. ” continues the analysis.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This specialized form of testing has emerged as a crucial tool for evaluating the security of wireless networks and assessing their resilience against potential cyber-attacks (Davis & Brown, 2020). It underscores the vital role it plays in fortifying the burgeoning landscape of wireless technologies. What is Radio Frequency (RF)?

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. “On May 25, the NOBELIUM campaign escalated significantly. ” continues Microsoft.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

are subject to laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), as well as regulations such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA). Security, Privacy and Compliance Can Conflict.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

Using its patented graph network analysis technology, Group-IB researchers built a network graph, based on the email address from the phishing kit, that showed other elements of the threat actor’s malicious infrastructure employed by him in various campaigns along with his personal pages.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The group has targeted a variety of industries, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications, and has largely focused its operations within the Middle East. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft has now confirmed that the attackers have compromised the account of one of its employees gaining limited access to source code repositories. Our investigation has found a single account had been compromised, granting limited access. No customer code or data was involved in the observed activities. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

2 ] The threat actor leveraged a set of misconfigured Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) accounts that enabled it to enroll a new device for MFA and to access the victim network. The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) issued a warning about the use of Kaspersky products. [ About EclecticIQ Threat Research.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD]. Cloud security success and choosing the right investments is all about having a clear understanding of threat types and their resulting damages.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. The Nobelium cyberspies is using a new custom downloader tracked by the researchers as CEELOADER.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The product we built is based entirely on Open Source technology, and one of our security modules utilises a technology called Falco. The figure 1 below, we see how ACSIA responds to a valid user account being accessed multiple times from different locations that are not within the corporate network or environment of 4Securitas.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2023

The second-largest category of cases consisted of compromised accounts and malicious emails. Legitimate code-signing certificates, such as Nvidia’s leaked certificate and Kuwait Telecommunication Company’s certificate were used to sign a malicious driver which was then used in wiper attacks against Albanian organizations.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The most common objective of such attacks is cyberespionage and disruption of major telecommunications companies’ work. The telecommunications sector: Are providers ready for 5G? If they manage to compromise a telecommunications company, they can then also compromise its customers for surveillance or sabotage purposes.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 19, 2022

These transmissions contain sensitive metadata relating to messages, including the names of messages' senders and receivers and their user account identifiers. China has prioritized national security over individual protection when it comes to privacy, but it still has measures to protect individuals and companies.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2024

. “The Federal Government’s national attribution procedure regarding this campaign has concluded that, for a relatively long period, the cyber actor APT28 used a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook that remained unidentified at the time to compromise numerous email accounts.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB’s report Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 examines various aspects of cybercrime industry operations and predicts changes to the threat landscape for various sectors, namely the financial industry, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and the energy sector. In June 2020, REvil started auctioning stolen data. million.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Network Solutions data breach – hacker accessed data of more 22 Million accounts. WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group and its parent Q Cyber Technologies. China-linked APT41 group targets telecommunications companies with new backdoor. Proton Technologies makes the code of ProtonMail iOS App open source.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2023

North Korea-linked APT groups actively exploit JetBrains TeamCity flaw Multiple APT groups exploited WinRAR flaw CVE-2023-38831 Californian IT company DNA Micro leaks private mobile phone data Threat actors have been exploiting CVE-2023-4966 in Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway devices since August A flaw in Synology DiskStation Manager allows admin account (..)

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