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EU Council Adopts New Cybersecurity Strategy

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Promotes Best Practices, Including Strong Encryption, Threat Information Sharing

Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) •
March 24, 2021    

EU Council Adopts New Cybersecurity Strategy

The Council of the European Union has adopted a new cybersecurity strategy aimed at protecting EU citizens and businesses from cyberthreats by promoting best practices, such as strong encryption and threat information sharing.

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The strategy outlines a set of frameworks for cybersecurity designed to help build
“a resilient, green and digital Europe.”

It calls for setting up security operation centers across the EU to monitor for attacks on networks. It also endorses implementing a security standard for 5G technology.

“The key objective is to achieve strategic autonomy while preserving an open economy,” the EU Council notes. “This includes reinforcing the ability to make autonomous choices in the area of cybersecurity, with the aim to strengthen the EU’s digital leadership and strategic capacities.”

Other Action Items

The strategy calls for:

  • Creating a joint cyber unit focused on the EU’s cybersecurity crisis management framework;

  • Accelerating the uptake of key internet security standards;

  • Developing strong encryption while protecting fundamental rights and supporting law enforcement and judicial authorities;

  • Preventing and countering cyberattacks that might affect supply chains, critical infrastructure and essential…

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Variant of SynAck Malware Adopts Doppelgänging Technique

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  1. Variant of SynAck Malware Adopts Doppelgänging Technique  Threatpost

  2. SynAck Ransomware Gets Dangerous ‘Doppleganging’ Feature  Dark Reading
  3. SynAck ransomware circumvents antivirus software through Doppelgänging technique  ZDNet

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Russian spy group adopts new tools to hack defense contractor networks

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A Russian cyberespionage group known as Pawn Storm has adopted new tools in an ongoing attack campaign against defense contractors with the goal of defeating network isolation policies.

Pawn Storm, also known as Sofacy, after its primary malware tool, has been active since at least 2007 and has targeted governmental, security and military organizations from NATO member countries, as well as media organizations, Ukrainian political activists and Kremlin critics.

Since August, the group has been engaged in an ongoing attack campaign focused on defense contractors, according to security researchers from Kaspersky Lab.

During this operation, the group has used a new version of a backdoor program called AZZY and a new set of data-stealing modules. One of those modules monitors for USB storage devices plugged into the computer and steals files from them based on rules defined by the attackers.

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Russian spy group adopts new tools to hack defense contractor networks – CIO

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Russian spy group adopts new tools to hack defense contractor networks
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Pawn Storm joins other sophisticated cyberespionage groups, like Equation and Flame, that are known to have used malware designed to defeat network air gaps. "Over the last year, the Sofacy group has increased its activity almost tenfold when compared …
Sofacy APT hits high profile targets with updated toolset – SecurelistSecurelist

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