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Another cyber nuisance in support of Putin's war, nothing too serious Europe's air-traffic agency appears to be the latest target in pro-Russian miscreants' attempts to disrupt air travel.…
Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been monitoring and disrupting Russian state-backed cyberattacks targeting Ukraine's critical infrastructure in 2023. [...]
Russia’s cyber operations since the invasion of Ukraine have been deployed with remarkable speed and flexibility, a new NCSC report shows
Killnet's leader outs the identity of the new Anonymous Russia leader, in an effort to consolidate power among pro-Russia cybercriminals.
The nation-stage threat group deployed custom malware on archaic versions of Cisco's router operating system. Experts warn that such attacks targeting network infrastructure are on the rise.
The United Kingdom's NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) is warning of a heightened risk from attacks by state-aligned Russian hacktivists, urging all organizations in the country to apply recommended security measures. [...]
Elite hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence service have been linked to large-volume phishing campaigns aimed at hundreds of users in Ukraine to extract intelligence and influence public discourse related to the war
Attackers continued to favor software exploits, phishing, and stolen credentials as initial-access methods last year, as Log4j and the Russia-Ukraine cyber conflict changed the threat landscape.
U.K. and U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned of Russian nation-state actors exploiting now-patched flaws in networking equipment from Cisco to conduct reconnaissance and deploy malware against targets
Alert follows advisory about Kremlin hackers targeting Cisco routers
Also a bunch of Russians plus someone giving free trips to the Motherland Four US citizens have been accused of working on behalf of the Russian government to push pro-Kremlin propaganda and unduly influence elections in Florida.…
The US, UK, and Cisco are warning of Russian state-sponsored APT28 hackers deploying a custom malware named 'Jaguar Tooth' on Cisco IOS routers, allowing unauthenticated access to the device. [...]
Spying on foreign targets? That's our job! The UK and US governments have sounded the alarm on Russian intelligence targeting unpatched Cisco routers to deploy malware and carry out surveillance.…
A new QBot malware campaign is leveraging hijacked business correspondence to trick unsuspecting victims into installing the malware, new findings from Kaspersky reveal
A novel credential-stealing malware called Zaraza bot is being offered for sale on Telegram while also using the popular messaging service as a command-and-control (C2)