Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

Estonia announced to have blocked a wave of cyber attacks conducted by Russian hackers against local institutions. Undersecretary for Digital Transformation Luukas Ilves announced that Estonia was hit by the most extensive wave of DDoS attacks it has faced since 2007.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2019

The patch addresses the UPnP memory corruption vulnerability ( CVE-2007-1204 ) that enables a remote attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of a local service account.” The post Too much UPnP-enabled connected devices still vulnerable to cyber attacks appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

When Israel in 2007 bombed a Syrian nuclear reactor, the raid was preceded by what is believed to have been a cyber attack on Syrian air defenses that resulted in radar screens showing no threat as bombers zoomed overhead.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Launched in Seattle in 2007, ExtraHop set out to help companies gain an actionable understanding of their IT environments. Mukerji and fellow co-founder Jesse Rothstein, ExtraHop’s chief technology officer, were colleagues at Seattle-based network switching systems supplier F5 Networks. Since then it has raised $61.6

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Treasury Department announced sanctions against Iran ‘s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and its Minister of Intelligence over the cyber attack that hit Albania in July. Since at least 2007, the MOIS coordinated a series of cyber operation against government entities and private organizations around the world. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2022

The number of cyber-attacks continues to increase as well as their level of sophistication. For this reason, the behavior of each actor in the cyber arena is becoming a national security concern for every government. Some of those activities being malicious.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2007-4559 , exists in the Python tarfile module, a default module in any project using Python and found in frameworks created by Netflix, AWS, Intel, Facebook, and Google, as well as applications used for machine learning, automation, and docker containerization.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The groups are behind several hacking operations that resulted in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide and destructive cyber-attacks on infrastructure. Lazarus Group is also considered the threat actors behind the 2018 massive WannaCry attack.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2024

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers, the nation-state actor has been active since at least 2007. The gang is financially-motivated and was mostly involved in cyber espionage campaigns. In autumn 2016, TeamViewer was target of a cyber-attack. said company spokesman.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2019

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. The gang is financially-motivated and was mostly involved in cyber espionage campaigns. “In autumn 2016, TeamViewer was target of a cyber-attack. ” said company spokesman.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

“In this in-depth research, we uncover significant parts of two advanced Iranian cyber-groups – Domestic Kitten and Infy. Both groups have conducted long-running cyber-attacks and intrusive surveillance campaigns, which target both individuals’ mobile devices and personal computers.” ” concludes the report.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

QuakBot aka QuackBot malware is actually a malicious software that has the potential to steal banking credentials and is existing since the year 2007. However, as the investigation is still underway, compromise of accounts is yet to be determined.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2022

issued a market bulletin dated August 16, 2022 setting out new rules for standalone cyber-attack policies that would exclude coverage for damages from state-sponsored attacks. In 2007, Estonia was subjected to a massive cyberattack which they blamed on Russia. Lloyds of London Ltd. But what is a war these days?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A joint UK and US investigation has revealed that the Russian cyber espionage group Turla carried out cyber attacks masqueraded as Iranian hackers. The Russian Government did not respond to a request for comment from the Financial Times, it always denied its involvement in cyber attacks on other states.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

since Q3 of 2007. According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2% of cyber attacks IBM handled. First, we’ll cover the technological side of cyber attacks, such as evading detection tools or digital reconnaissance techniques.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Experts analyzed tools and intrusion methods used by the China-linked cyber-espionage group Emissary Panda in attacks over the past 2 years. This morning I wrote about a large-scale cyber attack that hit the I nternational Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in November 2016, Emissary Panda was suspected to be the culprit.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Today, many reports are describing how infamous attackers are abusing such an emergency time to lure people by sending thematic email campaigns or by using thematic IM within Malware or Phishing links. Following few of them that I believe would be a nice reading: New Cyber Attack Campaign Leverages the COVID-19 Infodemic.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2018

The APT28 group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. In this case, the component was submitted to online sandboxes while the new campaign was ongoing.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Exabeam UEBA 2021 Private Cato Networks SASE 2020 Private Confluera Cloud XDR 2019 Private Aqua Container security 2017 Private Netskope SASE 2017 Private Zscaler Zero trust 2012 Nasdaq: ZS Sailpoint Identity management 2007 Private. New Enterprise Associates (NEA). NightDragon. YL Ventures.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Starting from Outlook 2007, there’s no such option anymore. It offers reliable backup for the entire Office 365 and in addition to that, it provides an extra security layer against social engineering cyber attacks. Probably, the developers considered it redundant. However, users don’t seem to support this opinion.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We saw, how Gmail was launched in 2007, then we saw, how they started engaging in the cloud war by launching their own cloud storage: Google Drive , and they continued to go on and on, making our lives easier with their products. one of the most valuable companies in the world. Why just not prevent the consequences of these situations?

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NopSec

OCTOBER 11, 2022

MITRE CAPEC Catalog MITRE CAPEC is a comprehensive dictionary of known attack patterns adversaries exploit weaknesses in software applications, hardware appliances, and IoT devices. The US Department of Homeland Security initially released it in 2007 to improve software assurance through security awareness at the development stage.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In the past, the country has been credibly blamed or proven responsible for several cyberattacks against Ukraine and its surrounding neighbors, including DDoS attacks in Estonia in 2007, Georgia in 2008, and Kyrgyzstan in 2009. As Ukraine defends itself against Russian forces, world leaders are faced with a difficult decision.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

I think event leaves open yet another possibility, that perhaps we’ve had many little digital pearl harbors already, such as the massive denial of service attack against Estonia, but we didn’t realize it at the time. I would claim that Ukraine is the best country in Europe and defending themselves against Russian cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Britain and the United governments blame Russia for being behind a destructive cyber attack that hit Georgia during 2019. The governments of Britain and the US declared that Russia’s military intelligence service GRU is behind the massive cyber attack that hit Georgia during 2019.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A cyber attack hit the German air traffic control agency (DFS) disrupting its operations, experts attribute it to Russia-linked group APT28. A cyber attack targeted the German Air Traffic Control Agency (DFS), as reported by Spiegel and European Truth. ” DFS is working to minimise the consequences of the incident.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2024

This group was also responsible for the 2015 cyber attack on the German Bundestag. These actions violate international cyber norms and require particular attention, especially during election years in many countries. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs also condemned long-term cyber espionage activities by the group APT28.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

Investigators determined that two hackers, known as Datastream Cowboy and Kuji, are behind the attack. 1998-2007 — Max Butler — Max Butler hacks U.S. After being released in 2003, he uses WiFi to commit attacks, program malware and steal credit card information. When was the last time I refreshed my Incident Response plan?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

This document actually is the first step of a more complex cyber attack. APT28 (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , SofacyGroup , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) launched several attacks on democratic institutions in Europe between September and December 2018. A copy of the Daily Express’ article published back in February.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Russia’s asymmetrical cyber-attacks have been a well-documented, rising global concern for most of the 2000s. Other milestone nation-state cyber-attacks include Titan Rain (China 2003 – 2006,) Stuxnet (U.S The wider context is all too easy to overlook. The wider context is all too easy to overlook.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2018

The tech giant attributed to Russia-linked APT28 a series of cyber attacks aimed at Members of United States’ Senate, conservative organizations and think tanks.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 21, 2019

Related: How botnets gave Trump 6 million faked followers To put it plainly, this represented a spike in cyber attacks bouncing through ordinary Internet-connected devices humming away in homes across America. These attacks were carried out by cyber criminals leveraging an insidious new attack tool: bulletproof proxies.

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