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Russian losses near Kyiv and a looming onslaught in eastern Ukraine may be a factor in the attack, a Ukrainian official said.
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Israel Defense Forces announced Sunday it had launched airstrikes on a building allegedly housing a number of Hamas soldiers that were preparing to launch a cyberattack against Israel. The IDF, which launched the airstrike jointly with the Israel Security Authority, did not detail the alleged cyberattack and other offensive capabilities Hamas was developing but it said it had neutralized the attack before launching the airstrikes. The incident marks the first time a government has publicly announced it has immediately responded to a cyberattack by launching a “kinetic attack,” a military term that describes the use of lethal force. Although this marks a first in cyberwarfare, Paul Rosenzweig, a former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, tells CyberScoop it’s not a surprising outcome. “We mistakenly tend to think that the cyber domain exists apart from the physical world, but it doesn’t,” Rosenzweig, a senior fellow at […]
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Government entities in Ukraine, including its military departments, were targeted with a spearphishing email campaign intended to conduct cyber-espionage early this year, according to a new report out Tuesday from FireEye. The malware and infrastructure from the campaign suggests the group behind the attack may have been active as early as 2014, and that it’s linked with the Luhansk People’s Republic, a group that declared independence from Ukraine in 2014 with backing from Russia’s military. This year’s campaign shows the group is becoming increasingly sophisticated with its tactics. For instance, one of the malicious files was disguised as an executable .LNK file, which can leverage legitimate apps, such as Microsoft Windows configuration management framework PowerShell, to download malware. This suggests attackers wanted to go unnoticed, since PowerShell hacks are blended into a trusted process that antivirus software usually doesn’t detect. “It’s really becoming mainstream to a point where a lot […]
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More than 15 different U.S. energy companies received phishing emails as part of a recently uncovered hacking operation, based on a list of targeted organizations provided to CyberScoop by a person familiar with the ongoing investigation. While evidence exists that ties these attackers to similar, past intrusion attempts against energy firms in Ireland and Turkey, the most recent wave of phishing emails — which began around early May — appears to have only been sent to U.S. companies, cybersecurity researchers and one government official told CyberScoop. As this story was being published, there were reports of a fresh attack in Ireland that had similarities to what happened in the U.S. Sources told CyberScoop that approximately 18 companies had received the phishing emails, with other incidents being investigated for ties to the same attackers. The number of facilities affected is currently unclear, as the targeted email accounts could be tied to […]
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