Security News

U.S. charges Iranian for hacks on defense orgs, offers $10M for info
2024-03-01 14:47

The U.S. Department of Justice has unveiled an indictment against Alireza Shafie Nasab, a 39-year-old Iranian national, for his role in a cyber-espionage campaign targeting U.S. government and defense entities. The U.S. DoJ announcement says Nasab's job with Mahak Rayan Afraz was merely a front for the hacker's malicious operations.

New Silver SAML Attack Evades Golden SAML Defenses in Identity Systems
2024-02-29 15:21

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new attack technique called Silver SAML that can be successful even in cases where mitigations have been applied against Golden SAML attacks. Silver SAML...

Iran-Linked UNC1549 Hackers Target Middle East Aerospace & Defense Sectors
2024-02-28 15:08

An Iran-nexus threat actor known as UNC1549 has been attributed with medium confidence to a new set of attacks targeting aerospace, aviation, and defense industries in the Middle East, including...

US govt shares cyberattack defense tips for water utilities
2024-02-21 18:39

CISA, the FBI, and the Environmental Protection Agency shared a list of defense measures U.S. water utilities should implement to better defend their systems against cyberattacks. The fact sheet they published today outlines the top eight actions U.S. Water and Wastewater Systems sector organizations can take to reduce cyberattack risks and boost their resilience against malicious activity.

New Report Reveals North Korean Hackers Targeting Defense Firms Worldwide
2024-02-20 10:53

The North Korean state-sponsored threat actors have been attributed to a cyber espionage campaign targeting the defense sector across the world. In a joint advisory published by Germany's Federal...

North Korean hackers linked to defense sector supply-chain attack
2024-02-19 20:24

In an advisory today Germany's federal intelligence agency and South Korea's National Intelligence Service warn of an ongoing cyber-espionage operation targeting the global defense sector on behalf of the North Korean government. Today's joint cybersecurity advisory highlights two cases attributed to North Korean actors, one of them the Lazarus group, to provide the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by the attackers.

Chinese hackers breached Dutch Ministry of Defense
2024-02-07 14:31

Chinese state-sponsored hackers have breached the Dutch Ministry of Defense last year and deployed a new remote access trojan malware to serve as a backdoor. "The effects of the intrusion were limited because the victim network was segmented from the wider MOD networks," the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service and the General Intelligence and Security Service noted.

Chinese Coathanger malware hung out to dry by Dutch defense department
2024-02-06 17:15

Dutch authorities are lifting the curtain on an attempted cyberattack last year at its Ministry of Defense, blaming Chinese state-sponsored attackers for the espionage-focused intrusion. Specialists from the Netherlands' Military Intelligence and Security Service and the General Intelligence and Security Service were called in to investigate an intrusion at an MOD network last year, uncovering a previously unseen malware they're calling Coathanger.

A zero-day vulnerability (and PoC) to blind defenses relying on Windows event logs
2024-01-31 16:20

A zero-day vulnerability that, when triggered, could crash the Windows Event Log service on all supported versions of Windows could spell trouble for enterprise defenders. "I have only tested the whole thing a few times in a domain network consisting of a Windows 10 machine and a Windows Server 2022 domain controller. I was able to crash the event log service of the domain controller as an unprivileged user from the Windows 10 machine, and that was about it."

Perfecting the Defense-in-Depth Strategy with Automation
2024-01-26 11:04

Medieval castles stood as impregnable fortresses for centuries, thanks to their meticulous design. Fast forward to the digital age, and this medieval wisdom still echoes in cybersecurity. Like...