Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

. “FROZENBARENTS (aka Sandworm), a group attributed to Russian Armed Forces’ Main Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) Unit 74455, continues to focus heavily on the war in Ukraine with campaigns spanning intelligence collection, IO, and leaking hacked data through Telegram.” ” reads the report published by the Google TAG.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to the same article, another such attack took place in the late 1990s when the American military attacked a Serbian telecommunications network. One month later, a new strain named RansomBoggs again hit Ukrainian targets – both malware families were attributed to Sandworm. Key insights.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 2, 2019

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer behind “ Orcus RAT ,” a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. An advertisement for Orcus RAT. In an “official press release” posted to pastebin.com on Mar. 2017 analysis of the RAT.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In October, telecommunications firm Telenor Norway was another to fall victim. In December, Canada’s Laurentian University reported a DDoS attack. Educational institutions are recommended to use anti-DDoS solutions and strong firewall settings, and partner up with ISPs. But it dealt with the problem in a matter of minutes.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

Telecommunications companies like AT&T, Sprint and Verizon have begun rolling out 5G service to major cities in the U.S. In the impending 5G enabled world, attack surfaces will be larger than ever before, providing more opportunities for consumers and businesses to be hacked.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The malware used in the Target breach included the text string “ Rescator ,” which also was the handle chosen by the cybercriminal who was selling all of the cards stolen from Target customers. For starters, the text string “Rescator” was found in some of the malware used in the Target breach.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

One of the trends related to the active confrontation between attackers has been hacking back, i.e. when attackers become the victims of hacking. The past months have shown that the most dangerous hacks involved DNS hijacking, which helped attackers manipulate DNS records for MITM attacks.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

Well-known malware families are involved in the biggest and most wide-reaching campaigns. There is, of course, a documented porosity between the ransomware ecosystem and other cybercrime domains such as carding or point-of-sale (PoS) hacking. In the past, high-profile ransomware attacks have been used as a destructive means.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB’s report Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 examines various aspects of cybercrime industry operations and predicts changes to the threat landscape for various sectors, namely the financial industry, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and the energy sector. Threat actors have also set a new record in DDoS attack power: 2.3

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The malware posed as ransomware, demanding money from the victims for “decrypting” their data. UNC4841 deployed new malware designed to maintain presence on a small subset of high-priority targets compromised either before the patch was released or shortly afterwards. We have not seen anything of the kind in 2023.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Storm-1133 activity was observed in early 2023 and is targeting Israeli private-sector energy, defense, and telecommunications organizations. “Over 35 pro-Palestine hacking groups have commenced a series of attacks on diverse targets within Israel.” ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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