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Reassessing cyberwarfare. Lessons learned in 2022

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Industroyer2 was discovered in the network of a Ukrainian energy provider, and it is very unlikely that the attacker would have been able to develop it without access to the same ICS equipment as used by the victim. It directly affected satellite modems firmwares , but was still to be understood as of mid-March.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2021

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We have seen targeted attacks exploiting the vulnerability to target companies in research and development, the energy sector and other major industries, banking, the medical technology sector, as well as telecoms and IT. That library was then loaded by the legitimate MsMpEng.exe by utilizing the DLL side-loading technique.

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Cyber Security Roundup for March 2021

Security Boulevard

The energy firm did not say how many accounts were affected by the breach, which was first reported by MoneySavingExpert.com. In Israel, Iranian state actors attempted, without success, to attack Israeli water utilities last year. DDoS Attacks Leverage Plex Media Server. Npower App Hack. VULNERABILITIES AND SECURITY UPDATES.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2024

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APT targeting turns toward satellite technologies, producers and operators The only known case of an attack utilizing satellite technologies that happened in recent years was the KA-SAT network hack of 2022. First, they can carry out actual cyberattacks, including DDoS attacks , data theft or destruction, website defacement, and so on.

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