Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

State was able to access the MailItemsAccessed log to set up these particular Big Yellow Taxi alerts because it had purchased Microsofts government agency-focused G5 license that includes enhanced logging capabilities through a product called Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium).

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

He has been in charge of XZ Utils since he wrote it in 2009. The companies benefiting from these freely available libraries need to actually step up, and the government can force them to. Certainly the security of these libraries needs to be part of any broad government cybersecurity initiative. This is a systems problem.)

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. An ad for war.md, circa 2009.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Experts say Kislitsin’s prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States. Burkov was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities, and the Russian government fought Burkov’s extradition to the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 7, 2021

federal prison for his role in the theft of $9 million from RBS WorldPay in 2009. This appears to be the case regardless of which Russian government site you visit. government on multiple occasions over the past five years. Horohorin’s BadB carding store, badb[.]biz, biz, circa 2007. Image: VirusTotal.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

Analysis of over 200 cybersecurity incidents associated with nation state activity since 2009 also shows the enterprise is now the most common target (35%), followed by cyberdefence (25%), media and communications (14%), government bodies and regulators (12%), and critical infrastructure (10%).

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

China-Linked Cybercrime Group Attacks Asian Certificate Authority, Breaches Government Agencies. Symantec calls the group responsible Billbug, an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group they believe to be active at least since 2009. brooke.crothers. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 15:14. Billbug is longstanding threat. Damage control. UTM Medium.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Thrip, Lotus Blossom, Spring Dragon) is responsible for a campaign that targeted a certificate authority, government agencies, and defense organizations in multiple countries in Asia. It is believed that the hacking group, which has been operating since 2009, is a state-sponsored group working for China.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Recorded Future, founded in 2009, has made its name in recent years by harnessing AI to provide real-time threat detection and predictive analytics. In total, they work with 45 national governments and 1500+ clients in 75 countries , making them the world's largest threat intelligence company.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by cyber attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Major Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

government said Grichishkin and three others set up the infrastructure used by cybercriminals between 2009 to 2015 to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and victims throughout the United States. Grichishkin pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and was sentenced to four years in prison.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 31, 2019

The Department of Justice is looking to dismantle the Joanap botnet, which has been built and controlled by North Korea-linked hackers since 2009.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

When I first began writing about Vrublevsky in 2009 as a reporter for The Washington Post , ChronoPay and its sister firm Red & Partners (RNP) were earning millions setting up payment infrastructure for fake antivirus peddlers and spammers pimping male enhancement drugs.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The targets of the two groups show significant overlap, Billbug also targeted organizations many military and government organizations in South Asia since at least January 2009. Billbug is a long-established espionage group, active since at least January 2009. “What ties the two groups together is the Sagerunex backdoor.

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The State of Security

MAY 17, 2022

#1 The history of the National Cyber Security Centre The UK’s first cybersecurity strategy was launched in 2009 and outlined that whatever the shape of the cybersecurity mission, it made no sense to silo it away from other aspects of national security.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2022

Symantec this week reported a highly sophisticated malware called “Backdoor.Daxin” that “appears to be used in a long-running espionage campaign against select governments and other critical infrastructure targets” and appears to be linked to China. Codebase Dates to 2009. Symantec collaborated with the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Government refers to this team as BeagleBoyz, who represent a subset of HIDDEN COBRA activity.” ” reads the alert.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This is where DHS backed Cyber Talent Management System will help in recruiting the new talent as per a pre-specified government model of assessment, compensation and merit system where professionals can grow their career with a greater flexibility.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In 2009, after Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme was exposed, Congress authorized the SEC to award bounties from civil penalties recovered from securities law violators. And since payouts are a percentage of fines collected, it costs the government little to implement. It worked in a big way.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2024

The Finnish government contemplated expanding the options for individuals to change their social security number in certain circumstances, such as the aftermath of a hacking incident. Kivimäki, known online as Zeekill, was one of the leading members of several groups of teenage cybercriminals which caused chaos between 2009-2015.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2018

China used tiny chips implanted on computer equipment manufactured for US companies and government agencies to steal secret information. In 2009 the company announced a development partnership with In-Q-Tel Inc. , government.” ” continues the report. This portfolio made Elemental a target for foreign adversaries.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 22, 2021

TICK, a hacking group funded by People’s Liberation Army is said to be involved in the attack and is reported to be active since 2009. Its prime targets have so far been government agencies and research institutes operating in Japan”, says John Hultquist, Vice President of Intelligence Analysis, NHK Japan.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2022

#1 The history of the National Cyber Security Centre The UK’s first cybersecurity strategy was launched in 2009 and outlined that whatever the shape of the cybersecurity mission, it made no sense to silo it away from other aspects of national security. To be effective, it had to be able to take advantage of high-grade […]… Read More.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Orange Belgium is using Huawei equipment since 2007 for its mobile network in Belgium and Luxembourg, while the collaboration between Proximus and the Shenzhen-based company started in 2009 for the progressive upgrading of its network.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The group, also known as Cicada, Stone Panda , and Cloud Hopper , has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The US Department of Justice charged two Chinese hackers for hacking numerous companies and government agencies in a dozen countries, US Indicts Two Chinese Government Hackers Over Global Hacking Campaign.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The last global recession occurred in 2009. Every country’s government had different systems, and many were unprepared to deal with this new wave of criminal activity. Personal and government money is held for ransom and used manipulatively. Predicting the Future by Looking to the Past.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2021

To counter this, some major IT vendors are pushing forward with a decades-old encryption idea that was first talked about in the late 1970s but not successfully demonstrated for the first time until 2009. Since then, interest in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has increased, largely paralleling the rise of cloud computing.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

The APT10 group has added two new malware loaders to its arsenal and used in attacks aimed at government and private organizations in Southeast Asia. In April 2019, China-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as APT10 has added two new loaders to its arsenal and used it against government and private organizations in Southeast Asia.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

An Aadhaar is a unique, 12-digit individual identification number “issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India on behalf of the Government of India,” according to the UIDAI website. With roughly 1.4

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Andariel , is another Lazarus subgroup that focuses in targeting businesses, government agencies, and individuals.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide. ” conclude the EU.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. “ FASTCash schemes remotely compromise payment switch application servers within banks to facilitate fraudulent transactions.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

“TAG observed a North Korean government-backed attacker group that previously targeted security researchers posing as recruiters at Samsung and sending fake job opportunities to employees at multiple South Korean information security companies that sell anti-malware solutions.” ” reads the Google Threat Horizons report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Last year, researchers revealed that code reuse links most North Korean malware to Lazarus.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

The UK Security Service MI5 said 10,000 staff from every UK government department and from important UK industries have been lured by fake LinkedIn profiles. The United States should lead by example and execute a sustained, aggressive, whole of government, intelligence-driven anti-ransomware campaign, coordinated by the White House.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

When the European Union introduced e-passports in 2009, government agencies needed a way for officers in the field to verify the authenticity of these documents and the data contained within them. The post Inside the Netherlands Ministry of Justice’s Journey to Scalable PKI appeared first on Keyfactor.

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