European govt air-gapped systems breached using custom malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
from yogthos@lemmy.ml to security@lemmy.ml on 09 Oct 2024 22:39
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blackbrook@mander.xyz on 09 Oct 2024 22:55 next collapse

It seems really lame to airgap a system and not have some rigorous way of preventing USB infection. Isn’t that a really well-known vulnerability?

PC_Fluesterer@social.tchncs.de on 09 Oct 2024 23:05 next collapse
Maeve@midwest.social on 10 Oct 2024 00:22 collapse

I’m not sure I buy that it’s Russia. Maybe some other governmental authors posing as/blaming Russia. I wonder whichever other nations have done that in the past, and whichever possible ones have the most incentive, and whatever possible incentive could that be? Remember stux/flame?

Maeve@midwest.social on 09 Oct 2024 23:51 collapse

bleepingcomputer.com/…/goldenjackal-state-hackers…

GoldenJackal is an APT group, active since 2019, that usually targets government and diplomatic entities in the Middle East and South Asia," explains Kaspersky.

So Europe, the Middle East and South Asia. Anywhere else?