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Phoenix ICT Solutions to partner with Australian Missile Corporation to support GWEO

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Phoenix ICT Solutions is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent with The Australian Missile Corporation (AMC). The AMC was invited to become an Enterprise Partner of the Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance (GWEO) enterprise in April 2022 and has since been engaged by the Commonwealth of Australia to assess national industrial capability and readiness to support GWEO outcomes.

Phoenix ICT Solutions has identified several opportunities to cooperate with the AMC including Cyber Security Assurance, Electronic Warfare, C4ISR, Systems Engineering, Test and Evaluation activities. 

Phoenix ICT Solutions CEO, Vijay Selvarathinam, said, “We are thrilled to work with AMC and its network of partners to assist in the delivery of this iconic Australian Defence Program.”

Phoenix ICT Solutions is an Australian SME headquartered in Canberra and has recently expanded its portfolio to include information technology, intelligence, systems engineering, and other in-demand capabilities centred in the Defence and National Security space. This expansion also increases Phoenix ICT Solutions service offering to Defence from strategic business advice, architecture and design to data science and systems engineering and integration, and grows its cadre of clients to now include the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, Head Quarters Joint Operations Command, Chief Information Officer Group, Army Head Quarters, DIO, Australian Cyber Security Centre and Space Command.

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City of Phoenix Memorial Day Holiday Notice – Phoenix (.gov)

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City of Phoenix Memorial Day Holiday Notice  Phoenix (.gov)

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Ukraine arrests ‘Phoenix’ hackers behind Apple phishing attacks

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The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has arrested five members of the international ‘Phoenix’ hacking group who specialize in the remote hacking of mobile devices.

The SSU’s announcement states that all five suspects live in Kyiv or Kharkiv and are higher technical education institutes graduates.

The goal of ‘Phoenix’ was to gain remote access to the accounts of mobile device users and then monetize them by hijacking their e-payment or bank accounts or selling their private information to third parties.

To steal mobile accounts of mobile device users, the actors used phishing sites that were clones of Apple’s and Samsung’s login portals.

This activity went on for at least two years, during which Phoenix hacked several hundred people’s accounts.

The hackers also offered remote mobile phone hacking services to others, charging between $100 and $200.

Messages between Phoenix and a client
Messages between Phoenix and a client
Source: SSU

Finally, the group was also unlocking stolen or lost devices made by Apple, tied to the original purchaser by locking them to the first account created on the device.

The police have conducted five searches in each arrest location, seizing computer equipment, mobile phones, specialized software, and hardware.

Stolen devices prepared to be resold as new
Stolen devices prepared to be resold as new
Source: SSU

While conducting searches of homes and fake telephone shops, officers found several devices that appeared to have been stolen and were being prepared for reselling as new in the Kyiv region.

The threat actors now face charges relevant to Article 361 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine for illegal interference in the work of electronic computers, systems, and computer networks.

While the five arrested individuals are most likely all the ‘Phoenix’ group members, the authorities will continue the investigations to potentially identify more conspirators.

Ukraine has been actively cracking down on cybercrime activity originating from their country, with recent arrests of ransomware members, money launderers, and threat actors behind DDoS attacks.

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Ukraine Arrests Five iPhone Hackers of the Phoenix International Hacking Group

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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has made five arrests in an investigation targeting the international hacking group known as Phoenix, allegedly specialized in hacking and selling stolen mobile phones.

According to the investigation, the five are residents of Kyiv and Kharkiv and all have “higher technical education.” They used social engineering tactics like phishing and website spoofing to steal victims’ passwords and defraud them or sell their data.

According to a machine-translated version of the SBU’s press release:

To gain access to the accounts of mobile device users, hackers used “phishing” resources – copies of sites of well-known manufacturers of mobile devices “Apple”, “Samsung” and others.

The user of the mobile device, downloading the application or application on such a “pseudo-official” site, provided the attackers with a password to their account. The attackers then copied the information stored on the hacked phone.

The data obtained in this way allowed the attackers to withdraw funds from citizens’ accounts and sell information about their private lives to third parties.

Victims lost $200 on average from the hacks, according to the SBU.

Phoenix was also engaged in hardware hacks, unlocking lost or stolen iPhones and reselling them through “a network of controlled stores” in Kyiv and Kharkiv.

Phoenix’s business, conducted under the guise of phone repair shops, reportedly ran for more than two years and claimed hundreds of victims.

Ukrainian Police seized “computer equipment and mobile phones with evidence of criminal activity, software and hardware for unauthorized interference with accounts, [and] stolen mobile phones, which were being prepared for sale under the guise of new ones.”

With these five arrests, the SBU believes it has apprehended all of the Phoenix gang members. For good measure, investigations continue to “identify and prosecute all persons involved in illegal activities,” just in case others can be linked to Phoenix.

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