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New Russia-affiliated actor Void Blizzard targets critical sectors for espionage

Void Blizzard, a newly identified Russia-affiliated threat actor, has been conducting global cyberespionage operations since April 2024. Their primary targets are organizations in critical sectors, particularly in NATO member states and Ukraine, including government, defense, transportation, media, NGOs, and healthcare. The group employs tactics such as using stolen credentials, likely obtained from commodity infostealer ecosystems, and recently evolved to include targeted spear phishing for credential theft. Despite using unsophisticated techniques, Void Blizzard has been effective in gaining access and collecting large volumes of emails and files from compromised organizations. Their activities pose a significant risk to NATO member states and allies of Ukraine.

Pulse ID: 6835955789329a0d9f2f521c
Pulse Link: otx.alienvault.com/pulse/68359
Pulse Author: AlienVault
Created: 2025-05-27 10:35:03

Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

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The Verge: Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests. “Microsoft employees have discovered that any emails they send with the terms ‘Palestine’ or ‘Gaza’ are getting temporarily blocked from being sent to recipients inside and outside the company.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/26/the-verge-microsoft-blocks-emails-that-contain-palestine-after-employee-protests/

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I received an "important email" from #Dreamhost about my domain registration. You'd think that #email security would be paramount for them.

They have no DKIM setting, so it's impossible to see if the email was tampered with in transit and if it was sent by the claimed sender. And, their DMARC policy is p=none, which tells email providers, "don't do anything special if you can't verify me".

Their dreamhostregistry.com domain is wide open for spoofing because they've configured it to be wide open for spoofing.

How can a web hosting company be so lax about email security? How can I trust emails they send to me if I have no assurance they sent it, and it wasn't modified in transit?

💌 ARTISTS & NEWSLETTERS — AN OPEN SOURCE DIRECTORY 💌

Artists and musicians are moving away from social media and towards newsletters.

This open source list will help you find and discover these newsletters.

👷‍♀️ HELP OUT 👷‍♀️

Please add your own and your favourites to the list so we can grow this and have an easier time staying in touch with newsletters.

Add an entry by following the instructions in the post.

Plz boost!

#newsletters #beyourownplatform #email

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hyaline.systemsDirectory of Artist and Musician NewslettersArtists and musicians are moving away from social media and towards newsletters. This list will help you find and discover these newsletters.

PC Magazine: Did Ring Just Send Me a Racist Email?. “Over the weekend, numerous social media users reported receiving the emails from the official ring.com domain at ‘verify.ring.com.’ The emails were meant to confirm that the user has signed up for Ring’s online service, but names in the email were changed to a racist slur. “

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/pc-magazine-did-ring-just-send-me-a-racist-email/

Finally got around to setting up a self-hosted mail server. In the end I went with Stalwart for it's Rust-y all-in-oneness and relatively simple configuration (including NixOS module).

It spat out the required DNS entries for SPF, DKIM and DMARC, I added them to my test domain with @beasts and carried out some tests with Fastmail, GMail and Outlook.

I checked the @aaisp IPs I'd picked hadn't made it on to any block lists.

And it just works! No issues with delivery so far.

Microsoft blockiert E-Mails seiner Mitarbeiter.innen!

#EMail-#Blockade bei #Microsoft 🚫 Microsoft-Mitarbeitende berichten, dass E-Mails mit Begriffen wie „#Palästina“, „#Gaza“ oder „#Genozid“ intern wie extern vorübergehend blockiert werden.

#ZensurVorwürfe von #Protestgruppe 🗣️ Die Gruppe „No Azure for Apartheid“ kritisiert dies als gezielte Einschränkung der Meinungsfreiheit und Diskriminierung palästinensischer Angestellter. (1/2)