Collaborate Disseminate
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Trellix’s researchers uncovered a series of vulnerabilities in two prominent data center equipment vendors: CyberPower and Dataprobe.
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The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020—we don’t know how—and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story:
The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on—plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current and former U.S. and Japanese officials interviewed, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
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The 2020 penetration was so disturbing that Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, and Matthew Pottinger, who was White House deputy national security adviser at the time, raced to Tokyo. They briefed the defense minister, who was so concerned that he arranged for them to alert the prime minister himself…
MoustachedBouncer is a cyberespionage group that targets foreign diplomats in Belarus via ISP adversary-in-the-middle attacks.
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The voter registries were accessed over a period of more than a year, the agency said.
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Security deficiencies and business practices have researchers and officials furious at Microsoft for enabling an espionage operation.
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The Washington Post is reporting that the US is spying on the UN Secretary General.
The reports on Guterres appear to contain the secretary general’s personal conversations with aides regarding diplomatic encounters. They indicate that the United States relied on spying powers granted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to gather the intercepts.
Lots of details about different conversations in the article, which are based on classified documents leaked on Discord by Jack Teixeira.
There will probably a lot of faux outrage at this, but spying on foreign leaders is a perfectly legitimate use of the NSA’s capabilities and authorities. (If the NSA didn’t spy on the UN Secretary General, we should fire it and replace it with a more competent NSA.) It’s the bulk surveillance of whole populations that should outrage us…
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The malware campaign has been attributed to the Chinese APT group Mustang Panda, also known as Camaro Dragon.
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ESET has linked several cybercrime and espionage campaigns to a threat actor tracked as Asylum Ambuscade.
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Everyone is writing about an interagency and international report on Chinese hacking of US critical infrastructure.
Lots of interesting details about how the group, called Volt Typhoon, accesses target networks and evades detection.
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A group that appears to support the Houthis in Yemen is targeting organizations working in the region with malicious Android-based apps.
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