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Most of the attacks on Telecom Sector in 2019 were carried out by China-linked hackers

Security Affairs

China-linked cyber espionage groups increasingly targeted organizations in the telecommunications industry in 2019. According to the CrowdStrike 2020 Global Threat Report, the telecommunications and government sectors were the most targeted by the threat actors. SecurityAffairs – hacking, China). ” reads the report.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 438 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Government of Bermuda blames Russian threat actors for the cyber attack City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 NSA, FBI, and CISA Release Cybersecurity Information Sheet on Deepfake Threats 38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers Clorox Blames Damaging Cyberattack for Product Shortage MGM losing up to $8.4M

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

31, 2019, Rezvesz said his company recently was the subject of an international search warrant executed jointly by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). “In In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar.

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APT trends report Q1 2021

SecureList

During routine monitoring of detections for FinFisher spyware tools, we discovered traces that point to recent FinFly Web deployments. It was first publicly documented in 2014, in the aftermath of the Gamma Group hacking incident. FinFly Web is, in essence, a suite of tools and packages that implement a web-based exploitation server.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

From a different angle, reporting from The Intercept revealed mobile surveillance capabilities available to Iran for the purposes of domestic investigations that leverage direct access to (and cooperation of) local telecommunication companies. One glaring example is Iran, which faced a series of spectacular hacks and sabotages.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2024

SecureList

Mail servers become priority targets In June, Recorded Future warned that BlueDelta (aka Sofacy, APT28, Fancy Bear and Sednit) exploited vulnerabilities in Roundcube Webmail to hack multiple organizations including government institutions and military entities involved in aviation infrastructure. Drone hacking!

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