Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2024

According to the media outlet, Chinese state-sponsored hackers used the Winnti trojan malware to infect the systems of the Company. 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. In autumn 2016, TeamViewer was target of a cyber-attack.

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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

JULY 15, 2018

Researchers from the Z-Lab at CSE Cybsec analyzed a new collection of malware allegedly part of a new espionage campaign conducted by the APT28 group. In particular, they noticed a malware sample submitted to Virus Total that was attributed by some experts to the Russian APT28 group.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2019

According to the media outlet, Chinese state-sponsored hackers used the Winnti trojan malware to infect the systems of the Company. The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. “In autumn 2016, TeamViewer was target of a cyber-attack.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware. since Q3 of 2007.

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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. In 2018, the US intelligence agencies reported that Russian state-sponsored hackers used false flag attacks to hit the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , South Korea.

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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

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 tandem with the physical strikes against Ukraine, a piece of wiper malware first detected by researchers at Symantec and ESET had already begun targeting organizations in Ukraine. Current analyses of HermeticWiper reveal that the malware is being delivered in highly-targeted attacks in Ukraine, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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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. Hypponen: Alright, original sea change for monetizing malware was 2003. I remember meeting Mikko in 2006.

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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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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. east coast. The time for change is now. .

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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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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

This document actually is the first step of a more complex cyber attack. This Office password protection could be easily bypassed using the classic malware analysis tools and after the code extraction, it’s possible to analyze the plain-text code as follows. Figure 7: user agent set by malware.

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