Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2022

The Pro-Russian volunteer movement known as LEGION is calling to launch DDoS attacks against the final of the Eurovision song contest. Another week has passed and Anonymous has hacked other Russian companies and leaked their data via DDoSecrets. May 14 – Pro-Russian hacktivists target Italy government websites.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

Pro-Ukraine hackers are using Docker images to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a dozen Russian and Belarusian websites. “Docker Engine honeypots were compromised to execute two different Docker images targeting Russian, Belarusian and Lithuanian websites in a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

Proofpoint researchers recently reported that a Russian hacking group, tracked as Winter Vivern (aka TA473), has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities ( CVE-2022-27926 ) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

The latest executive order from the Italian ACN agency banned Group-IB, a Russian-led cybersecurity firm from working in the government sector. Kislitsin continues to work for Group-IB and is still currently listed on the Russian version of their official WEB-site. Government. Government.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 4, 2022

Ukraine Cyber War Marked by Anti-Russian Activism But Not Large-Scale Russian Offensives – So Far. While no one is ruling out a large-scale cyberattack on Ukraine, attacks reported by the media to date have been mostly anti-Russian hacker activity and smaller-scale attacks against the Ukraine government attributed to Russia.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

Below is the timeline of the events related to the ongoing Russia invasion that occurred in the previous weeks: May 06 – Anonymous and Ukraine IT Army continue to target Russian entities. The Anonymous collective and the volunteer group Ukraine IT Army continues to launch cyber attacks on Russian entities. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2022

The Pro-Russian volunteer movement known as LEGION is calling to launch DDoS attacks against the final of the Eurovision song contest. The LEGION is a Pro-Russian volunteer movement that focuses on DDOS attacks. The group made the headlines for attacks against Western organizations and governments, including NATO countries and Ukraine.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In Q1 2023, threat actors linked to Russia’s military intelligence service focused their phishing campaigns on Ukraine, with the country accounting for over 60% of observed Russian targeting. The group targeted multiple sectors, including government, defense, energy, transportation/logistics, education, and humanitarian organizations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

DoJ charged the Russian citizen Denis Gennadievich Kulkov with running the Card-Checking services. Over a nine-month period in 2018, the site performed at least 16 million checks, and over a 13-month period beginning in September 2021, the site performed at least 17 million checks.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2023

The French Senate’s website was taken offline by a DDoS attack launched by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName. L'accès au site internet du Sénat est perturbé depuis ce matin, notre équipe est pleinement mobilisée pour remédier aux dysfonctionnements. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

Russia-linked APT29 targets diplomatic and government organizations Synology and QNAP warn of critical Netatalk flaws in some of their products Hackers stole +80M from DeFi platforms Rari Capital and Fei Protocol Apr 24 – Apr 30 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2020

According to FireEye, the campaign tracked as GhostWriter, has been ongoing since at least March 2017 and is aligned with Russian security interests. “We The attackers used to replace existing legitimate articles on the sites with the fake content, instead of creating new posts. SecurityAffairs – hacking, disinformation).

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Daniel Miessler

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Think about it another way: what if Russian Mafia decided to kidnap your 4th grader while she was walking home from school. Would you feel bad that you didn’t make your child’s school route resistant to Russian Special Forces? The Government. Super Hackers Trying to Hack You. It’s that simple.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Fake UpdraftPlus WordPress Plugins used to backdoor sites. Czech Police and Intelligence agency dismantled Russian Spy ring on its soil. Adobe Creative Cloud Users.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The REvil ransomware group's "Happy Blog" where it publishes stolen data, suddenly went offline. and global law enforcement, had apparently hacked the hacking group and taken it offline. led hacking. By Thursday, Reuters revealed the answer. The FBI, working with other U.S. They claim they are the victims of a bully.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

When it comes to nation-state hackers, Russian and Chinese operations are always in the limelight. One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Developing advanced phishing techniques to lure victims.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 15, 2021

» Related Stories Deere John: Researcher Warns Ag Giant’s Site Provides a Map to Customers, Equipment Dispute Over Data Leak Highlights Legal Risks for UK Researchers Seeds of Destruction: Cyber Risk Is Growing in Agriculture. government into an unanticipated crisis. government appears to be focused on rooting them out.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains. However, in both the sextortion and bomb threat spam campaigns, the vast majority of the email was being sent through Web site names that had already existed for some time, and indeed even had a trusted reputation.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. Fake donation sites started popping up after the Ukraine crisis broke out in 2022, pretending to accept money as aid to Ukraine.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

Analysts acknowledge that in the fog of war, government entities or private institutions likely have not identified nor reported all cyber-incidents. On March 15th, the FBI and CISA released a report about Russian state sponsored actors targeting an unnamed NGO. [ Policy and Governance: German BSI Issus Warning For Kaspersky Products.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2022

Another week has passed and Anonymous has hacked other Russian companies and leaked their data via DDoSecrets. The #OpRussia launched by Anonymous on Russia after the criminal invasion of Ukraine continues, the collective claims to have hacked multiple organizations and government entities. Achinsk City Government.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The JabberZeus malware was custom-made for the crime group by the alleged author of the Zeus trojan — Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev , a top Russian cybercriminal with a $3 million bounty on his head from the FBI. Your payroll accounts have been hacked, and you’re about to lose a great deal of money.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2022

Researchers observed a spike in the attacks against Ukrainian WordPress sites since the beginning of the military invasion of the country. The attacks aimed at making the websites unreachable and causing fear and distrust in the Ukrainian government, WordPress security firm Wordfence reported. This data set includes 8,320.UA

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2019

Blogging I actually got a bit of a surprise when I pulled the list of my most popular blog posts for 2018: The surprise was that after the home page, the most popular page hit on my site was the one about Online Spambot , a post I published in August 2017. The sponsorship model continued strongly too.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2021

Microsoft has blunted the ongoing activities of the Nobelium hacking collective, giving us yet another glimpse of the unceasing barrage of hack attempts business networks must withstand on a daily basis. Nobelium is the Russian hacking collective best known for pulling off the milestone SolarWinds supply chain hack last December.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2021

roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, May 2021. report claimed millions of UK people could be at risk of being hacked due to using outdated home routers. UK Smarties Cities Cybersecurity Warning. million in Bitcoin to Darkside. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2021

re is used to grant the victims access to the threat actors WEB-site for further negotiations. It’s hard to believe such malicious activity has gone unnoticed by certain governments resulting in damage to thousands of enterprises globally.” – said Gene Yoo, Chief Executive Officer of Resecurity. Like decryptor[.]cc

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The lines between financially and politically motivated ransomware actors also blurred in Q3 2022, with government entities and private companies suffering the consequences. This blog is the latest edition of our quarterly assessments of ransomware activity , using primary and secondary source reporting.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2021

The news was revealed by a member of REvil ransomware gang, known as ‘UNKN,’ in a forum post on the Exploit hacking forum. A few hours ago, we lost access to the public part of our infrastructure, namely: Blog. “We do not believe — I emphasize, we do not believe the Russian government was involved in this attack.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

On January 14, attackers defaced 70 Ukrainian websites and posted the message “be afraid and expect the worst” The defacement message on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, written in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish, suggested that personal data uploaded to the site had been destroyed. Lapsus$ group hacks Okta.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

The results of the investigation, which involved the FBI and several other US government agencies, was reported to US President Joe Biden. In their blog, DarkSide’s creators heaped the blame on third-party operators. The new rule forbade the advertising and selling of any ransomware programs on the site.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2023

The Russian government today handed down a treason conviction and 14-year prison sentence on Iyla Sachkov , the former founder and CEO of one of Russia’s largest cybersecurity firms. Group-IB relocated its headquarters to Singapore several years ago, although it did not fully exit the Russian market until April 2023.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The FBI’s takedown of the LockBit ransomware group last week came as LockBit was preparing to release sensitive data stolen from government computer systems in Fulton County, Ga. 16, the entry for Fulton County was removed from LockBit’s site without explanation. 16 unless county leaders agreed to negotiate a ransom.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2021

. “We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined government and look for other our motives [sic],” reads an update to the DarkSide Leaks blog. Portions of a DarkSide recruitment message, translated from Russian. Under the “Why choose us?” Image: Intel 471.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

While I produced this episode, a 21 year old Massachusetts National Guard airman is alleged to have photographed and distributed copies of classified US Military material on Discord, a social media site. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. He started hacking in the 1990s.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

In this episode, Jack Cable talks about hacking the Qlocker ransomware and briefly interrupting its payment system. He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Would you use it?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

In this episode, Jack Cable talks about hacking the Qlocker ransomware and briefly interrupting its payment system. He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Would you use it?

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