SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working for several months to try to identify who is behind an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers, specifically those who work on vulnerability research and development at a variety of organizations. Google's TAG team discovery: cyberattack motive.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

Following the attacks of the Killnet Collective, the group responsible for the attacks against major government resources and law enforcement, a new group has been identified called “Cyber Spetsnaz”. Based on the description, the actors call themselves “hacktivists”, however, it’s not yet clear if the group has any connection to state actors.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google TAG is warning that North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning that North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. ” reads the TAG’s report. ” reads the TAG’s report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported. According to the Google Threat Horizons report, the state-sponsored hackers sent fake job offers to employees at the security companies.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 12, 2023

SAP Security Note #3350297 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.1, The note was updated by SAP with a reference to the new HotNews Note #3399691 , stating that the vulnerability is only patched completely when applying both patches, #3350297 and #3399691. SAP Security Notes #3382353 , tagged with a CVSS score of 7.5,

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2022

The attacks were also reported by Google’s TAG team, which confirmed they were for intelligence purposes. In recent campaigns, threat actors used European Union reports on the conflict in Ukraine and Ukrainian government reports as lures. In some cases, the threat actors used stagers and reverse shells instead of using PlugX.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They’re often state-sponsored entities, foreign governments, or actual businesses. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over. Not surprisingly, cyber criminals don’t always stick to their word. High-stakes threat actors.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Dashboards clearly state the quantity and types of indicators of compromise (IoCs) and also provide Pulses to quickly summarize threats and their impact. Additionally, dashboards share data about threat names, any relevant reference URLs, tags, adversary and malware families, and attack IDs. critical infrastructure.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

what happened to gas supplies on the East Coast of the United States. The attack inspired political pressure, and that subsequently led to an increase in response speed from the US government on ransomware activities. MO: Up until this point, a lot of government response up had been about information sharing; getting the message out.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 16, 2024

However, the evolving threat landscape necessitates a shift toward more comprehensive data loss prevention methods considering data in various states—whether at rest, in motion, or in use. The Evolution of DLP: From Perimeter Defense to Comprehensive Strategy Traditionally, cybersecurity focused on building strong perimeter defenses.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) uncovered campaigns targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers discovered three campaigns, between August and October 2021, targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

global main say that the code is going to be written in 16bit mode and the external (exposed) tagged function is the one labelled as ‘main’ (the linker needs it in order to setup the original entry point in proper address space). The entire code exploits %cx register to setup the current state. The first two lines: 1] .code16

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

global main say that the code is going to be written in 16bit mode and the external (exposed) tagged function is the one labelled as ‘main’ (the linker needs it in order to setup the original entry point in proper address space). The entire code exploits %cx register to setup the current state. The first two lines: 1].code16

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

Let me explain: HIBP Has Always Been Open in Spirit I've already written extensively about the architecture of the system across many of the 128 previous blog posts tagged as Have I Been Pwned. The very second blog post on that tag was about how I used Azure Table Storage to make it so fast and so cheap.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Later that month, representatives from the Israeli government visited the offices of NSO as part of an investigation into the claims. And in October, India’s Supreme Court commissioned a technical committee to investigate whether the government had used Pegasus to spy on its citizens.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 24, 2021

As part of our series on Digital Identity , this blog will look back on the personal identification techniques of previous eras to show how methods of identification have developed over the course of human history. states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and California established the first state-wide palm print databases.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

This resulted in the deployment of a custom backdoor, named Sunburst, on the networks of more than 18,000 SolarWinds customers, including many large corporations and government bodies, in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In November and December 2020, two public blog posts were published about this campaign.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. It's estimated that within the first year, over half the homes in the United States had spark meters installed. During a harsh winter storm, the state of Texas experienced massive blackouts. In February 2021.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2023

It was a government contract, and he was not allowed to bring in his own laptop nor allowed to install any software on their machines. There are numerous packages upgrades in testing that never make it into stable, which would be in a stable state to release. For more information, please see their blog post, PDF , and FAQs.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 I’ll save the history lesson for the years between then and today because there are presently 106 blog posts with the HIBP tag you can go and read if you’re interested, let me just talk briefly about where the service is at today.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

Figure 4: Payload stored in “Company” tag of document metadata. The blog post, in fact, explains both AMSI and BlockLogging disabling techniques. The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. Stay Tuned.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

This tag was in the source code over at secure.donaldjtrump.com/donate-homepage yet it was pulling script directly off Igor Escobar's GitHub repository for the project. Even my own state government down here had been hit. from its current state. Now, imagine if Igor took a dislike to Trump. It was the US Courts too.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. We have indeed seen an increase in the number of persistent, sophisticated attacks targeting various states in META and specifically Africa.

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