Cyber Defense Advisors

Year: 2023

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  • January 20, 2023

Gamaredon Group Launches Cyberattacks Against Ukraine Using Telegram

The Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Gamaredon has continued its digital onslaught against Ukraine, with recent attacks leveraging the popular messaging app Telegram to strike military and law enforcement sectors in the country. “The Gamaredon group’s network infrastructure relies on multi-stage Telegram accounts for victim profiling and confirmation of geographic location,

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  • January 20, 2023

Would You Accept an Inconvenience To Prevent a Data Breach?

Addressing the rise in credential and session compromise In my last post, I wrote about AWS Service Control Policies that can be leveraged to create organization-wide policies. AWS Service Control Policies These types of policies, when leveraged properly can reduce the chance of privilege escalation and limit the blast radius in the event of session […]

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Real-World Steganography

From an article about Zheng Xiaoqing, an American convicted of spying for China: According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, the US citizen hid confidential files stolen from his employers in the binary code of a digital photograph of a sunset, which Mr Zheng then mailed to himself.

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Real-World Steganography

From an article about Zheng Xiaoqing, an American convicted of spying for China: According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, the US citizen hid confidential files stolen from his employers in the binary code of a digital photograph of a sunset, which Mr Zheng then mailed to himself.

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Real-World Steganography

From an article about Zheng Xiaoqing, an American convicted of spying for China: According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, the US citizen hid confidential files stolen from his employers in the binary code of a digital photograph of a sunset, which Mr Zheng then mailed to himself.

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Real-World Steganography

From an article about Zheng Xiaoqing, an American convicted of spying for China: According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) indictment, the US citizen hid confidential files stolen from his employers in the binary code of a digital photograph of a sunset, which Mr Zheng then mailed to himself.

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

“Workarounds” Helped Royal Mail Resume Shipping After Ransomware Attack

Thanks to technical “workarounds,” Royal Mail has been able to resume “limited” export services one week after being hit by cyber-attack

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“Workarounds” Helped Royal Mail Resume Shipping After Ransomware Attack

Thanks to technical “workarounds,” Royal Mail has been able to resume “limited” export services one week after being hit by cyber-attack

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Phishers Use Blank Images to Disguise Malicious Attachments

Researchers see another sophisticated attempt to obfuscate links

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