Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2022

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 20, 2022

Last week, Ukrainian officials said they stopped an attack on high-voltage electrical substations with the help of cybersecurity firm ESET and Microsoft. The newest threat against Russia: ransomware gangs. Some of the most notable recent attacks against Russia have been by ransomware gangs. brooke.crothers.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 4, 2022

Cyberattacks against Ukrainian government websites and affiliated organizations include : Data-wiping malware that “infected hundreds of computers” including those in neighboring Latvia and Lithuania. This is mostly business as normal as to the levels of Russian targeting.”. brooke.crothers. Fri, 03/04/2022 - 15:39.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2022

” In February, US and UK cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies published a joint security advisory about a new malware, dubbed Cyclops Blink, that has been linked to the Russian-backed Sandworm APT group. . “The Russian government has recently used similar infrastructure to attack Ukrainian targets.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR 2022: Cyberattacks Reported At High Frequency. As anticipated in the last Analyst Prompt, the spate of cyberattacks targeting Ukraine and Western organizations continued in week three of the war. Large scale cyber-attacks with major impact on Ukrainian infrastructure or services have not been observed.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 6, 2022

As an example of the danger this poses, Microsoft says on-premise networks were an early target. Russia not surprisingly targeted Ukraine’s governmental data center in an early cruise missile attack,” the report said. And the destructive wiper malware attacks also targeted on-premises computer networks. Microsoft Perspective].

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 18, 2023

Ransomware activity stayed at steady levels throughout 2022’s fourth quarter (Q4 2022). Since we bid farewell to ever-present groups like Conti, the world of ransomware has remained a game of whack-a-mole: For every group that disappears, there are always several waiting in the shadows to replace it. The 707 tippers mark a 6.5%

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2022

On January 14, 70 Ukrainian websites were defaced: the attackers 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. The most remarkable findings.

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Malware Firmware Government Phishing 132

Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2021

So many readers had questions in response to the tweet that I thought it was worth a blog post exploring this one weird cyber defense trick. So many readers had questions in response to the tweet that I thought it was worth a blog post exploring this one weird cyber defense trick. “Sodinokibi”) ransomware groups.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Ransomware has given security professionals a headache for the better part of a decade. Germany, the UK, and Italy also registered high ransomware tallies. To understand how we got here, let’s first take a closer look at recent statistics on the top ransomware variants, countries and industries attacked. Top ransomware variants.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Russian government said today it arrested 14 people accused of working for “ REvil ,” a particularly aggressive ransomware group that has extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from victim organizations. The FSB said it arrested 14 REvil ransomware members, and searched more than two dozen addresses in Moscow, St.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2022

Targeted attacks. Our analysis of the rogue firmware, and other malicious artefacts from the target’s network, revealed that the threat actor behind it had tampered with the firmware to embed malware that we call MoonBounce. Since 2018, we have been tracking Roaming Mantis – a threat actor that targets Android devices.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Lockbit will continue to lead the pack Lockbit are currently the world’s most prolific ransomware group, which can be determined by looking at the activity levels on various groups’ data leak sites. Many groups that have faced law enforcement attention often follow an impactful attack being made against a sensitive target.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. Shortly after breaking the Target story, KrebsOnSecurity reported that Rescator appeared to be a hacker from Ukraine. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. Chang’s.

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SecureList

AUGUST 12, 2021

Ransomware attacks were defeated on the computers of 97,451 unique users. 8. . ** Unique users whose computers were targeted by financial malware as a percentage of all unique users of Kaspersky products in the country. Ransomware programs. Ransomware attacks on large organizations continued in Q2. Financial threats.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In tandem with the physical strikes against Ukraine, a piece of wiper malware first detected by researchers at Symantec and ESET had already begun targeting organizations in Ukraine. Current analyses of HermeticWiper reveal that the malware is being delivered in highly-targeted attacks in Ukraine, Latvia, and Lithuania.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This quarter we identified several malicious infection documents, droppers and implants that are typical of Gamaredon; and which may suggest an ongoing malicious campaign against the Ukrainian government, possibly active since May. When victims tried to access their corporate mail, they were redirected to a fake copy of the web interface.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2021

A Russian-based group’s cyberattack in late May on a range governmental agencies, think thanks, non-governmental agencies (NGOs) and the like around the world highlight the growing threat from software supply chain campaigns like the high-profile SolarWinds hack that was perpetrated by the same cybercriminals last year.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. In practice, Facebook found that not only criminals or terrorists were targeted by such groups, but journalists, dissidents and human rights activists as well.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 17, 2021

Darkside, the ransomware group that ransomed Colonial, has largely gone dark after its servers and Bitcoin were seized. Its blog, payments collection site, and its CDN have gone offline. Verizon DBIR 2021: The primary trends for this year’s DBIR report were web application attacks, ransomware, and credential stuffing.

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