Collaborate Disseminate
By Deeba Ahmed
Russian hackers, part of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, are using compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to…
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Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are exploring the use of large language models in their operations.
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By Waqas
Ilya Sachkov was accused of treason by Russian authorities for providing classified cybersecurity data to a foreign intelligence firm.
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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. Sachkov, 37, has been detained for nearly two years under charges that the Kremlin has kept classified and hidden from public view, and he joins a growing roster of former Russian cybercrime fighters who are now serving hard time for farcical treason convictions. Continue reading Russia Sends Cybersecurity CEO to Jail for 14 Years
By Deeba Ahmed
APT28 or Fancy Bear is linked with the Russian military intelligence unit called GRU.
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Strontium — a group linked to Russian military intelligence — was using the domains to target Ukrainian institutions, Microsoft said.
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Hackers believed to be associated with the governments of Russia, Belarus and China are targeting Ukraine, Poland and European governments, researchers say, ranging from espionage attempts to phishing campaigns and coinciding with the intensification of the Russian assault on Ukraine. Shane Huntley, the director of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), said in a blog post Monday that the group has observed well-known Russian military hacking group Fancy Bear (also known as APT28) conducting several large credential phishing campaigns targeting UkrNet, a Ukrainian media company. Two recent campaigns, he said, involved newly created Blogspot domains as initial landing pages, which then redirected targets to credential phishing pages. TAG also observed a hacking operation known as Ghostwriter, or UNC1151, running credential phishing campaigns over the past week against Polish and Ukrainian government and military organizations. Ghostwriter refers to activity believed to be operating out of Belarus, researchers with cybersecurity firm Mandiant reported […]
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State-sponsored hacking groups have been uncharacteristically quiet leading up to the Olympic Games next month in Beijing. Researchers say there’s one big reason why: No one wants to get on the bad side of China. “Disruptive Russian, Iranian, and North Korean state-sponsored cyberattacks targeting the 2022 Winter Olympics are unlikely to manifest due to the close relationships those countries maintain with the host nation, China,” Recorded Future researchers write in a report on potential cybersecurity threats to the games released Wednesday. Although high-level attacks are unlikely, the Winter Games still present a target-rich environment for nation-state groups that focus on cyber-espionage, researchers say. And — as is typical for any large international event — cybercriminals also will be looking for opportunities to scam athletes, organizers, volunteers and fans during the Winter Games. Beware of SIM cards Advanced persistent threat (APT) groups from Iran and Russia, while unlikely to attack China […]
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Trend Micro said on Wednesday it has discovered a new Russian-language cyber mercenary group that has been going after targets ranging from Russian businesses to journalists and politicians. Researchers discovered the group after a long-time target of Pawn Storm, a hacking group connected to Russian intelligence, also known as Fancy Bear and APT28, said in March of 2020 that hackers targeted his wife with phishing emails. Trend Micro found that the indicators didn’t match Pawn Storm, and attributed the attacks to another Russian-language group it named Void Balaur. Unlike APT28, Void Balaur appears to be an independent group willing to hack into the emails of targets as diverse as aviation companies in Russia to human rights activists in Uzbekistan, according to Trend Micro. “Their targets are really a mixed bag,” lead researcher Feike Hacquebord said in an interview. “It looks like a lot of different customers are using them and […]
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10,000 high-risk users are being provided with free hardware security keys by Google, with the aim of better protecting their accounts from hackers.
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