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Hidden dangers loom for subsea cables, the invisible infrastructure of the internet

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Hidden dangers loom for subsea cables, the invisible infrastructure of the internet 21/09/2023 at 06:32 By Help Net Security More than 97% of the world’s internet traffic passes through subsea cables at some point, according to ENISA. Subsea cables are a vital component of the global internet infrastructure, and it is critical to protect them […]

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How Chinese hackers got their hands on Microsoft’s token signing key

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How Chinese hackers got their hands on Microsoft’s token signing key 07/09/2023 at 17:00 By Zeljka Zorz The mystery of how Chinese hackers managed to steal a crucial signing key that allowed them to breach Microsoft 365’s email service and access accounts of employees of 25 government agencies has been explained: they found it somewhere

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Trojanized Signal, Telegram apps found on Google Play, Samsung Galaxy Store

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Trojanized Signal, Telegram apps found on Google Play, Samsung Galaxy Store 31/08/2023 at 12:18 By Help Net Security ESET researchers have identified two active campaigns targeting Android users, where the threat actors behind the tools for Telegram and Signal are attributed to the China-aligned APT group GREF. Most likely active since July 2020 and since

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North Korean hackers breached Russian missile development firm

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North Korean hackers breached Russian missile development firm 08/08/2023 at 16:46 By Helga Labus North Korean state-sponsored hackers have breached Russian missile maker NPO Mashinostroyeniya, according to SentinelLabs researchers. North Korean hackers discovered The researchers came across leaked email communication between NPO Mashinostroyeniya’s IT staff that contained information about a possible cyber intrusion first detected

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Microsoft Exchange servers compromised by Turla APT

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Microsoft Exchange servers compromised by Turla APT 20/07/2023 at 15:17 By Helga Labus Turla has been targeting defense sector organizations in Ukraine and Eastern Europe with DeliveryCheck and Kazuar backdoors / infostealers and has been using compromised Microsoft Exchange servers to control them. Turla APT Turla (aka Secret Blizzard, Snake, UAC-0003) is a sophisticated and

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Chinese hackers forged authentication tokens to breach government emails

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Chinese hackers forged authentication tokens to breach government emails 12/07/2023 at 13:17 By Zeljka Zorz Sophisticated hackers have accessed email accounts of organizations and government agencies via authentication tokens they forged by using an acquired Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key, the company has revealed on Tuesday. “The threat actor Microsoft links to this incident

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Microsoft patches four exploited zero-days, but lags with fixes for a fifth (CVE-2023-36884)

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Microsoft patches four exploited zero-days, but lags with fixes for a fifth (CVE-2023-36884) 11/07/2023 at 22:31 By Zeljka Zorz For July 2023 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has delivered 130 patches; among them are four for vulnerabilites actively exploited by attackers, but no patch for CVE-2023-36884, an Office and Windows HTML RCE vulnerability exploited in targeted attacks

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Turla’s Snake malware network disrupted by Five Eyes’ agencies

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Turla’s Snake malware network disrupted by Five Eyes’ agencies 10/05/2023 at 14:47 By Help Net Security The US Justice Department announced the completion of court-authorized operation MEDUSA, to disrupt a global peer-to-peer network of computers compromised by sophisticated malware, called “Snake” (aka “Uroburous”), that the US Government attributes to a unit within Center 16 of

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