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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 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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Syria-linked APT group SEA targets Android users with COVID19 lures

Security Affairs

The experts found 71 malicious Android applications that were connecting to the same C2 server having an IP address linked to the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment (STE). .” The malicious apps employed by Syria-linked hackers have names such as “Covid19”, “Telegram Covid_19”, “Android Telegram”, and “Threema Arabic,” among others.

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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. 2017 analysis of the RAT.

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Becoming an MSSP: Tools, Services & Tips for Managed Security Services

eSecurity Planet

According to Jay McBain, an analyst at Forrester Research, spending on IT and telecommunications will be worth about $7 trillion by 2030. Phishing , general malware , and Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks are more common. DDoS Protection. Also read: Top 8 DDoS Protection Service Providers. Network Security.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2024

SecureList

This politician became the target of a previously undiscovered “zero-day” attack aimed at infecting his phone with spyware. It determined that the injection point was situated within the connection between two Egyptian telecommunication providers. It is hard to imagine any future conflict without hacktivist involvement.

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