Chinese APT Deploys EggStreme Fileless Malware to Breach Philippine Military Systems

An advanced persistent threat APT group from China has been attributed to the compromise of a Philippines-based military company using a previously undocumented fileless malware framework called EggStreme. "This multi-stage toolset achieves persistent, low-profile espionage by injecting malicious...

Privacy-Preserving Authentication for Military 5G Networks

As 5G networks gain traction in defense applications, ensuring the privacy and integrity of the Authentication and Key Agreement AKA protocol is critical. While 5G AKA improves upon previous generations by concealing subscriber identities, it remains vulnerable to replay-based synchronization and...

China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks

The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020--we dont know how--and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story: The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on--plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to...

New ComRAT Malware Uses Gmail to Receive Commands and Exfiltrate Data

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new advanced version of ComRAT backdoor, one of the earliest known backdoors used by the Turla APT group, that leverages Gmail's web interface to covertly receive commands and exfiltrate sensitive data. "ComRAT v4 was first seen in 2017 and known still ...

Samsung Knox Vulnerable to Data Intercept

An Israeli security researcher from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber Security Labs claims to have uncovered a serious security flaw in Samsung Knox. Knox is a security- and privacy-centric platform built into certain Samsung devices running Android. The Knox architecture, tailored f...

US Military approved iPhones and iPads for military networks

The US Department of Defense has cleared Apple's iPhone and iPad for use on its military networks, along with the Samsung Galaxy S4 and BlackBerry 10 devices, the agency said in a statement Friday. The entire DOD is much, much larger, of course, and mobile devices are increasing in importance for...

US Military approved iPhones and iPads for military networks

The US Department of Defense has cleared Apple's iPhone and iPad for use on its military networks, along with the Samsung Galaxy S4 and BlackBerry 10 devices, the agency said in a statement Friday. The entire DOD is much, much larger, of course, and mobile devices are increasing in importance for...

Pentagon Plans Massive Increase in Cybersecurity Teams

As the Senate pushes for legislation to improve information-sharing on threats and attacks and President Barack Obama prepares to issue an executive order on cybersecurity, the Department of Defense is looking for a massive increase in the number of trained cybersecurity personnel helping to defe...

CheckPoint Firewall-1 SecuRemote Topology Service Hostname Disclosure

This module sends a query to the port 264/TCP on CheckPoint Firewall-1 firewalls to obtain the firewall name and management station such as SmartCenter name via a pre-authentication request. The string returned is the CheckPoint Internal CA CN for SmartCenter and the firewall host. Whilst...

Report Claims U.S. Cyber Analysts Trace Most Serious Attacks To Just 12 Hacking Groups in China

Cyber security analysts at private sector firms in the U.S. say they have linked a string of devastating hacks of military networks and defense contractors to a small cadre of hacking groups within China, and are pushing the U.S. government for the green light to strike back. The report Monday in...

Buckshot Yankee

Then-U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III called it “the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever” and “a network administrator’s worst fear” when, in 2008, a silently operating, rogue program infiltrated classified U.S. military networks. The infection began at a...

NATO networks vulnerable to cyber threat !

BRUSSELS AFP - NATO's military networks are not fully protected against cyber threats and the alliance must make good on a promise to erect a virtual wall in 2012, a defense official U.S. says Tuesday top. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn warned after a two-day visit to Brussels that...

DARPA Project CINDER Targets Insider Threats

The U.S. military is looking for new ways to identify malicious insiders and stop them from operating from within government and military networks, which it assumes have already been compromised. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPAhttp://www.darpa.mil/ this week issued a call for...