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US Government, Wikipedia Go All-HTTPS. Should Site Owners Do It, Too?

  • Posted on:June 18, 2015 at 3:36 am
  • Posted in:Social
  • Author:
    David Sancho (Senior Threat Researcher)
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The past week has seen some interesting news in the world of online security. First, the US government announced that all websites maintained by federal agencies must be using HTTPS by the end of 2016. Second, the Wikimedia Foundation (best known for Wikipedia) announced that they, too, were rolling out mandatory HTTPS for their own sites…

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Tags: governmentHTTPSmozillaObamaonline securitywikimediaWikipedia

Hacktivist Group CyberBerkut Behind Attacks on German Official Websites

  • Posted on:January 20, 2015 at 8:30 am
  • Posted in:Targeted Attacks
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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A pro-Russian group called CyberBerkut claimed responsibility for a recent hack on certain German government websites in early January. We were able to gather some information on some of its members based on Pastebin data that had been leaked by the Ukrainian nationalist political party (Pravy Sektor). A Background on CyberBerkut CyberBerkut is an organized group…

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Tags: CyberBerkutGermanygovernmenthackinghacktivisimukraine

PLEAD Targeted Attacks Against Taiwanese Government Agencies

  • Posted on:May 23, 2014 at 1:25 am
  • Posted in:Exploits, Malware, Targeted Attacks, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Kervin Alintanahin (Threats Analyst)
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In the recent 2H-2013 Targeted Attack Roundup Report we noted that we have been seeing several targeted attack campaign-related attacks in Taiwan. We are currently monitoring a campaign that specifically targets government and administrative agencies in Taiwan. We are naming this specific campaign PLEAD because of the letters of the backdoor commands issued by the related…

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Tags: APTgovernmentgovernment agenciesMalwarePLEADspear phishingTaiwanTaiwaneseTargeted Attacktargeted attack campaign

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