Russian Cozy Bear Hackers Phish Critical Sectors with Microsoft, AWS Lures

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Google: apparent Russian hackers play copycat to commercial spyware vendors

The attack campaigns show how spyware tech companies have become more akin to nation-state threat actors.

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Google Catches Russian APT Reusing Exploits From Spyware Merchants NSO Group, Intellexa

Google TAG publishes evidence showing identical or striking similarities between exploits used by Russia’s APT29 and commercial spyware vendors.
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CISA emergency directive tells agencies to fix credentials after Microsoft breach

CyberScoop first reported on the existence of the directive, which calls the pilfered emails “a grave and unacceptable risk to agencies.”

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Federal government affected by Russian breach of Microsoft

U.S. cybersecurity officials issued an emergency directive this week to address a breach by Russian operatives of Microsoft first disclosed in January.

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Russian APT29 Hackers Caught Targeting German Political Parties 

Russia’s APT29 hacking group is expanding targets to political parties in Germany using a new backdoor variant tracked as Wineloader.
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