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Russian hackers have been mooching off existing OilRig infrastructure

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Russian-linked hackers known as the Turla group have been piggybacking on Iranian hackers’ tools and infrastructure for years now to run their own attacks, according to a joint announcement Monday from the National Security Agency and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre. A two-year long investigation revealed that the Turla group, which has been linked to Russian intelligence, scanned for the presence of Iranian-built backdoors, then used them to try gaining a foothold in victim networks in at least 35 countries, largely in the Middle East, according to the NSA. This announcement again demonstrates how hackers will use other attackers’ techniques, creating the false impression that one espionage group is behind an operation when, in fact, it’s another. “Turla acquired access to Iranian tools and the ability to identify and exploit them to further their own aims,” the NCSC’s Director of Operations, Paul Chichester, said in a statement. Turla would run its own cyber-espionage operations using […]

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Russians can hijack satellites in order to launch cyberattacks, documents show

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Russian intelligence services have been capable of hijacking satellite signals to launch stealthy cyberattacks since at least 2013, according to a newly published cache of classified documents belonging to Canada’s Communications Security Establishment and obtained by The Intercept. Because the innovative hacking technique is believed to be limited to a small number of operators, the revelation highlights the Kremlin’s longstanding effort to develop highly sophisticated cyber espionage capabilities on par with other world powers. The Intercept shared these sensitive documents in a story Wednesday, which sought to disprove U.S. President Donald Trump’s assertion that Russian hackers are so skilled that they cannot be tracked or accurately attributed — an opinion that was also recently voiced by Russian President Vladimir Putin. In part, The Intercept’s story underlines how a series of simplistic but critical operational security mistakes by a skilled hacking group, codenamed MakersMark or Turla, eventually allowed Canadian intelligence officials […]

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