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The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new phishing campaign orchestrated by the Russia-linked APT28 group to deploy previously undocumented malware such as...
India's government has granted its Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-In, immunity from Right To Information requests - the nation's equivalent of the freedom of information queries in the US, UK, or Australia. Reasons for the exemption have not been explained, but The Register has reported on one case in which an RTI request embarrassed CERT-In. That case related to India's sudden decision, in April 2022, to require businesses of all sizes to report infosec incidents to CERT-in within six hours of detection.
The suspected man-in-the-middle attack was identified when the administrator of jabber. Ru, the largest Russian XMPP service, received a notification that one of the servers' certificates had expired.
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has revealed that threat actors "interfered" with at least 11 telecommunication service providers in the country between May and September...
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine on Tuesday said it thwarted a cyber attack against an unnamed critical energy infrastructure facility in the country. "Visiting the link will download a ZIP archive containing three JPG images and a BAT file 'weblinks.cmd' to the victim's computer," CERT-UA said, attributing it to the Russian threat actor known as APT28.
The Russia-linked threat actor known as Gamaredon has been observed conducting data exfiltration activities within an hour of the initial compromise. "As a vector of primary compromise, for the most part, emails and messages in messengers are used, in most cases, using previously compromised accounts," the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine said in an analysis of the group published last week.
An ongoing phishing campaign with invoice-themed lures is being used to distribute the SmokeLoader malware in the form of a polyglot file, according to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine. In a related advisory, Ukraine's cybersecurity authority also revealed details of destructive attacks orchestrated by a group known as UAC-0165 against public sector organizations.
Google this week reversed an overhaul of one of its security-related file formats after the transition broke Android apps. In November, 2021, Google announced changes to the format of its Chrome Certificate Transparency log list file and, in August, 2022, notified developers whose apps might be affected that it would stop publishing legacy log list files on October 17, 2022.
A hacker is using fake code-signing certificates impersonating cybersecurity firm Emsisoft to target customers using its security products, hoping to bypass their defenses. In a new security advisory, Emsisoft warned that one of its customers was targeted by hackers using an executable signed by a spoofed Emsisoft certificate.
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine has issued an alert warning of cyber attacks against state authorities in the country that deploy a legitimate remote access software named Remcos. The bogus emails that kick-start the infection sequence claim to be from Ukrainian telecom company Ukrtelecom and come bearing a decoy RAR archive.