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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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Three major APTs are involved in ongoing compromises at pharma and clinical organizations involved in COVID-19 research, Microsoft says. Continue reading Nation-State Attackers Actively Target COVID-19 Vaccine-Makers
The Russia-linked threat group is harvesting credentials for Microsoft’s cloud offering, and targeting mainly election-related organizations. Continue reading APT28 Mounts Rapid, Large-Scale Theft of Office 365 Logins
Just months before the U.S. presidential election, hackers from Russia, China and Iran are ramping up phishing and malware attacks against campaign staffers. Continue reading Microsoft Warns of Cyberattacks on Trump, Biden Election Campaigns
Fancy Bear has begun targeting anti-doping authorities and sporting organizations ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. On October 28, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center revealed that it had identified at least 16 national and international org… Continue reading Fancy Bear Targeting Anti-Doping Organizations Ahead of 2020 Olympic Games
State-sponsored Russian hackers are targeting anti-doping authorities and other sports-related organizations ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, Microsoft announced on Monday. The hacking group known as Fancy Bear — or Strontium, APT28 and other names — targeted at least 16 national and international organizations across three continents starting Sept. 16, Tom Burt, Microsoft’s vice president for customer security and trust said in a blog post. That date roughly coincides with when World-Anti Doping Agency officials told international media outlets that Russia may be banned from all international sporting events over “inconsistencies” at its Moscow testing facility. Microsoft reported Monday that some of the attacks detected in recent weeks were successful, but “the majority were not.” The company did not name any specific victims. The news comes less than a year before the next Summer Games begin in July 2020. The World Anti-Doping Authority long has been a target of interest for Russian hackers. Fancy […]
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Early this spring, Russian government-linked hackers used three popular internet of things devices with weak security to access several Microsoft customers’ networks, then tried infiltrating more privileged accounts, researchers announced Monday. The company’s Threat Intelligence center said the STRONTIUM group, also known as APT 28 and Fancy Bear, leveraged weak security in an office printer, video decoders and voice over IP, or VOIP, phone to access wider systems. The attacks occurred as recently as April, Microsoft said, adding that hackers used insecure IoT devices as a means to attempt to break into valuable accounts where they would have found more sensitive data. Microsoft disclosed neither the affected devices, nor which of its customers were impacted. “While much of the industry focuses on the threats of hardware implants, we can see in this example that adversaries are happy to exploit simpler configuration and security issues to achieve their objectives,” Microsoft researchers wrote in their […]
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Imagine what it must have been like for the first human to witness an aurora. It took a while for our species to migrate from its equatorial birthplace to latitudes where auroras are common, so it was a fairly recent event geologically speaking. Still, that first time seeing the shimmers …read more
Some 4,500 years ago, the ticket to a megalithic party was a pig from your local farm. Continue reading Want to Know Who Partied at Stonehenge? Look at the Pig Bones
As hundreds of millions of Europeans prepare to go to the polls in May, Fancy Bear ramps up cyber-espionage and disinformation efforts. Continue reading Microsoft: Russia’s Fancy Bear Working to Influence EU Elections