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A CAD drawing of a radar antenna stolen and leaked online by criminals is of a military radar system produced by defense contractor Leonardo and fitted to a number of US and UAE aircraft, The Register has learned. The Register can reveal Clop got its hands on at least one drawing of a Leonardo Seaspray 7500E radar antenna, and divulged on its Tor-hidden website a rendering of the hardware in some detail - without its external covers usually seen in promotional material.

The malware strains named Hornbill and SunBird have been delivered as fake Android apps by the Confucius advanced persistent threat group, a pro-India state-sponsored operation known to spy on Pakistani and South Asian targets, since at least 2013. A report from California-based cybersecurity firm Lookout has revealed counterfeit Android apps laden with malware that was used by pro-India actors to spy on Pakistan's military and nuclear authorities, in addition to Kashmir's election officials.

Researchers have uncovered two novel Android surveillanceware families being used by an advanced persistent threat group to target military, nuclear and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir. The two malware families, which researchers call "Hornbill" and "SunBird," have sophisticated capabilities to exfiltrate SMS messages, encrypted messaging app content and geolocation, as well as other types of sensitive information.

The report provides insights from across the 5G eco-system on the current status of 5G, illustrating the accelerated timetables from service providers in upgrading to 5G standalone with the new 5G Core, and revealing how 5G is driving new initiatives and sector engagements. 5G activity surged in 2020 with accelerated timetables from service providers to deliver 5G SA core deployments, following non-standalone's inability to really wow customers and deliver a solid new revenue proposition.

The new self-appointed military government of Myanmar has temporarily banned Facebook. Newswire Reuters' Myanmar reporter Hnin Zaw posted a notice from Myanmar's Ministry of Transport and Communications that imposed a ban until February 7th. Using optical character recognition and online translation tools, The Register surmises that the order says the ban is needed to stop the spread of fake news.

The NSA has just declassified and released a redacted version of Military Cryptanalytics, Part III, by Lambros D. Callimahos, October 1977. Parts I and II, by Lambros D. Callimahos and William F. Friedman, were released decades ago - I believe repeatedly, in increasingly unredacted form - and published by the late Wayne Griswold Barker's Agean Park Press.

Facebook said Tuesday that it had removed two networks based in Russia and one linked to the French military, accusing them of carrying out interference campaigns in Africa. Two networks running multiple Facebook accounts were assigned to people associated with the Russian Internet Research Agency, and the third had "Links to individuals associated with French military," the social media platform said.

Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned.

BAE Systems has unveiled a next-generation cyber-threat detection and mitigation solution for U.S. military platforms. The system's cyber resilience capabilities can be integrated into ground, air, and space vehicles to protect our warfighters and platforms from cyber attacks designed to access and degrade mission capabilities.

For the past year, Russia-linked threat actor Strontium has targeted hundreds of organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom to harvest account credentials, Microsoft reveals. On Thursday, Microsoft published information on a newly identified Strontium campaign that focused on harvesting Office365 credentials for tens of thousands of accounts at organizations in the US and UK, many of them directly involved in political elections.