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Hackers Leak Internal Documents Stolen from Leidos Holdings

SecureWorld News

Internal documents from Leidos Holdings Inc., government agencies—including the Defense Department—have been leaked online by hackers. According to a Bloomberg News report on July 23, the documents are believed to have been exfiltrated during a breach of a system operated by Diligent Corp., which Leidos used for its operations.

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Towards native security defenses for the web ecosystem

Google Security

In this post we share how our Information Security Engineering team is deploying Trusted Types , Content Security Policy , Fetch Metadata Request Headers and the Cross-Origin Opener Policy across Google to help guide and inspire other developers to similarly adopt these features to protect their applications.

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RansomHub ransomware gang relies on Kaspersky TDSKiller tool to disable EDR

Security Affairs

. “ RansomHub used TDSSKiller with the -dcsvc flag to try disabling critical security services, specifically targeting Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Service (MBAMService). The command aimed to disrupt security defenses by disabling this service. In this instance, attackers attempted to disable MBAMService.

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New steganography attack targets Azerbaijan

Malwarebytes

Threat actors often vary their techniques to thwart security defenses and increase the efficiency of their attacks. Based on the decoy document, we assess that this attack is targeting the government and military of Azerbaijan. The malicious document contains a macro that is obfuscated. Maldoc analysis.

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How Steganography Allows Attackers to Evade Detection

eSecurity Planet

Steganography, derived from Greek words meaning “covered” and “writing,” has been used for centuries to hide secret messages inside regular documents. It does not raise curiosity, and most security tools do not flag such file types. In 2020, a campaign relying on steganographic documents affected companies in the U.K.,

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Experts link the Black Basta ransomware operation to FIN7 cybercrime gang

Security Affairs

The Sentinel Labs’s analysis revealed that Black Basta ransomware operators develop and maintain their own toolkit, they documented only collaboration with a limited and trusted set of affiliates. It focused on deploying POS malware and launching targeted spear-phishing attacks against organizations worldwide. bat WindowsILUg69ql2.bat

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Includes Word, Streaming Service Zero-Days

eSecurity Planet

Natalie Silva, lead cyber security engineer at Immersive Labs, told eSecurity Planet that the Word vulnerability in particular poses a high risk, noting that the Preview Pane is a potential attack vector. ” Exploiting the vulnerability could lead to the disclosure of Net-NTLMv2 hashes, she added.