The Security Ledger

MARCH 6, 2022

we sit down with Christian Sorenson, the former lead of the international cyber warfare team at US Cyber Command and CEO of cybersecurity firm, SightGain, to talk about what we’ve learned so far from Russia’s war in Ukraine, and what may be coming next. Related Stories Episode 234: Rep. Read the whole entry. »

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti , an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. On Sunday, Feb. On Sunday, Feb. ” GAP #1.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Because, UK is supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia, the suspicion finger obliviously is pointing towards Kremlin. And nowadays, threat actors spreading such file encrypting malware have taken a step ahead by first stealing the data and then locking down the database from access.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 28, 2023

He told the incredible story of how he traveled to Ukraine right at the beginning of the Russian invasion to assist people fleeing the country into Poland. While it's not hard to imagine how difficult it would be to get people out of an active warzone, listening to the story is a completely different thing.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 18, 2023

The leaked documents included sensitive details about the Russia-Ukraine war and were circulating online for months before law enforcement caught on. However, it also raises concerns about the potential vulnerabilities of social media platforms in safeguarding sensitive data. Follow SecureWorld News for updates on the story.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2022

Instagram Stories hides a scam in plain sight Beware scammers disguised as fraud busters Beware Twitter Messages claiming “Your blue badge Twitter account has been reviewed as spam” The top 5 most routinely exploited vulnerabilities of 2021 Russia continues digital onslaught against Ukrainian systems Update now!

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2023

This story explores the history and identity behind Cryptor[.]biz Virtually all malware that is deployed for use in data stealing at some point needs to be crypted. Those records indicate the user Kerens registered on Verified in March 2009 from an Internet address in Novosibirsk, a city in the southern Siberian region of Russia.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 24, 2023

government has issued a warning to private space companies that foreign entities are actively trying to infiltrate and steal sensitive technologies and data from America's booming space industry. The theft of intellectual property and proprietary data by nation-state hackers not only puts U.S.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The United States and United Kingdom recently sanctioned Russia-based individuals associated with the cybercrime group known as Trickbot, marking a significant escalation in the fight against cybercrime. Though Conti disbanded in 2022 , it was one of the first cybercriminal groups to back Russia in its war against Ukraine.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

Unlike other ransomware strains that don’t encrypt victims in Russia and other CIS countries, Shade also targets computers in Russia and Ukraine. Now we made a decision to put the last point in this story and to publish all the decryption keys we have (over 750 thousands at all).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

But according to information obtained by KrebsOnSecurity, it is equally likely Vrublevsky was arrested thanks to his propensity for carefully documenting the links between Russia’s state security services and the cybercriminal underground. An undated photo of Vrublevsky at his ChronoPay office in Moscow. Some pay, some don’t.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 10, 2022

When we think of nation-state hacking most of us have a western skew, immediately think of “the usual suspects”, China, North Korea, and Russia. The report acknowledges that high publicity around Russia and China during the survey may have skewed responses as well. State-level cyber warfare comes in many forms with many “faces.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Thanks to your readership and support, I was able to spend more time in 2022 on some deep, meaty investigative stories — the really satisfying kind with the potential to affect positive change. I will also continue to post on LinkedIn about new stories in 2023.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity has identified the owner of RSOCKS as a 35-year-old from Omsk, Russia who runs the world’s largest forum catering to spammers. Shortly after last week’s story on the RSOCKS founder, I heard from Riley Kilmer , co-founder of Spur.us , a startup that tracks criminal proxy services. ru and alphadisplay[.]ru,

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Hot for Security

MAY 24, 2021

Although the earlier campaign targeted Ledger data leak victims, the perps used a similar email address, blacklisted by Bitdefender on May 9. Although the spammers were clearly not interested in crafting a convincing story in the body of the email, the PDF attachments offer users the details they need to participate in the so-called giveaway.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Hacking groups linked to Russia, China and India are leveraging a novel attack technique that makes it easier for them to spread malware , steal data and evade detection, according to a report this week by security firm Proofpoint. Also read: Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions for 2021. A Change from Office Files.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Department of Justice as a top figure in the JabberZeus Crew , a small but potent cybercriminal collective from Ukraine and Russia that attacked victim companies with a powerful, custom-made version of the Zeus banking trojan. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) declined to comment for this story. Tank, a.k.a.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

"And all of these targets have one thing in common; they have a lot of personal data on people. This is the story of a cyber mercenary group, dubbed Void Balaur, with victims around the world. So I could access that panel, as well, and I could just download data from this panel. And many other types of personal data.".

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Shortly after breaking the Target story, KrebsOnSecurity reported that Rescator appeared to be a hacker from Ukraine. Efforts to confirm my reporting with that individual ended when they declined to answer questions, and after I declined to accept a bribe of $10,000 not to run my story. Chang’s.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 30, 2022

Vamosi: There was this short story, and much later a movie, called Ender’s Game. It’s author, Orson Scott Card, told me that he was sitting on his front porch when the idea for the short story came to him full blown. And now the data from that environment is not generic. Lee Rossi, CTO and co founder.of

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

launder money stolen from their victims and transfer funds to members of the conspiracy based in Russia, Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe. ’s victims led to dozens of stories over several years about small businesses battling their financial institutions to recover their losses. Bogachev, in undated photos.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2023

In the midst of ongoing tensions stemming from the Russia-Ukraine war, Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team has recently exposed the existence of a new Russian state-sponsored hacker group known as Cadet Blizzard. Follow SecureWorld News for more stories related to cybersecurity.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 13, 2023

The chart below shows botnet attacks as a percentage of all DDoS attacks, Q2 2021 – Q2 2023: The initial surge in IoT botnet activity coincided with the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Trojans, often disguised as seemingly harmless software, deceive users into unwittingly compromising their sensitive data.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled. VAMOSI: Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 28, 2022, members of the Conti ransomware group began leaking information about the internal operations.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

After that Fizot story got picked up internationally, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a source who suggested that Yalishanda and Fizot shared some of the same infrastructure. address state that he resides in Vladivostok, which is a major Pacific port city in Russia that is close to the borders with China and North Korea. WHO IS YALISHANDA?

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The Security Ledger

MAY 3, 2022

The post Feel Good Ukraine Tractor Story Highlights Ag Cyber Risk appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Related Stories DEF CON: Security Holes in Deere, Case IH Shine Spotlight on Agriculture Cyber Risk Episode 235: Justine Bone of MedSec on Healthcare Insecurity Episode 234: Rep. The bad news?

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

This is the natural progression of the 2023 predictions where the massive investments in tools, techniques, acquisition of vulnerabilities, and rapid development of exploits have positioned aggressive nations like Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran at the pinnacle of threats and a catalyst for other attackers.

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Spinone

JANUARY 22, 2020

It boils down to the simple time-tested moral of the story: better prevent than cure. Petya and NotPetya ransomware The Petya cyber attack happened in 2017 and was mostly targeted against Ukraine , but later got around as usual ransomware. It makes the affected user buy not one, but two keys: to unlock the bootloader and the data.

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SecureList

APRIL 24, 2023

Discovered files are collected in ZIP archives up to 5MB in size and sent to the C2 server over plain HTTP using POST requests containing such data as: { "n":"[timestamp]_[part].zip", Victims in Ukraine were infected with KopiLuwak and QUIETCANARY, two malware strains previously associated with Turla.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

There’s an online war in Ukraine, one that you haven’t heard much about because that country is holding its own with an army of infosec volunteers worldwide. But the full story of the bronze soldier affair is only becoming clearer now. Vamosi: His neighbor to the east, Russia, has come up before.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

In December, 2016, the lights went out in Kyiv, Ukraine. So it wasn't this story that we hear sometimes thrown around about Lightspeed net speed cyberattacks, you know it was human adversaries doing research on the environment, so the attack starts. Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems. Physical war.

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SecureList

APRIL 25, 2022

The DDoS landscape in Q1 2022 was shaped by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine: a significant part of all DDoS-related news concerned these countries. Anonymous is not the only hacktivist group to come out in support of Ukraine. According to Avast, one such app was downloaded by at least 900 users from Ukraine.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Attack on Kaseya and the REvil story. There is no proper validation of the processed data during the operation, so any malicious code can be downloaded. IT threat evolution in Q3 2021.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 5, 2020

In the 1980s, for example, the Soviet Union spread the false story that the US Department of Defense bioengineered HIV in order to kill African Americans. More recently, in 2018, Russia undertook an extensive disinformation campaign to amplify the anti-vaccination movement using social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

27, a Ukrainian cybersecurity researcher who is currently in Ukraine leaked almost two years’ worth of internal chat records from Conti, which had just posted a press release to its victim shaming blog saying it fully supported Russia’s invasion of his country. Need decryptors. “We are Conti Group.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

million patients in the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

For historical context, here are a few milestone hacks – each thought to be nation-state backed – that have brought us to this juncture: Russia meddles in US elections. WannaCry encrypted data on company servers and demanded ransom payment in Bitcoin. Russia muscles Ukraine. In the run-up to the 2016 U.S.

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