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Reuters: Russia-linked APT behind Brexit leak website

Security Affairs

According to a Google cybersecurity official and the former head of UK foreign intelligence, the “Very English Coop d’Etat” website was set up to publish private emails from Brexit supporters, including former British MI6 chief Richard Dearlove, leading Brexit campaigner Gisela Stuart, and historian Robert Tombs.

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Smooth Cybercriminals: Google Warns of Iran-Backed APT Hackers

SecureWorld News

One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S. When they did, attackers sent them phishing links in follow-on correspondence.".

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Public Sector Cybersecurity Priorities in 2021

Security Boulevard

<a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> <a href='/blog?tag='></a> tag='></a> 2020 was a year of unprecedented challenge for anyone working in public sector cybersecurity.

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Five Key Points When Preventing Cybersecurity Attacks in a World of Hybrid Working

Security Boulevard

<a href='/blog?tag=Endpoint tag=Endpoint Protection'>Endpoint Protection</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Loss Prevention'>Data Loss Prevention</a> <a href='/blog?tag=File tag=File Transfers'>File Transfers</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Advanced

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 371 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 371 by Pierluigi Paganini appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Technical Analysis of Xloader’s Code Obfuscation in Version 4.3

Security Boulevard

This blog post analyzes the encryption algorithms used by Xloader to decrypt the most critical parts of the code and the most important parameters of the malware’s configuration. Previous blog posts have referred to this structure as the ConfigObj, with fields that are used to store flags, encryption parameters, pointers, etc.

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The UK and Australian Governments Are Now Monitoring Their Gov Domains on Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

As this service has grown, it's become an endless source of material from which I've drawn upon for conference talks, training and indeed many of my blog posts. And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains.