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Cybercriminals used Snake to retrieve confidential documents related to international relations
Government organizations in Central Asia are the target of a sophisticated espionage campaign that leverages a previously undocumented strain of malware dubbed DownEx
The U.S. government on Tuesday announced the court-authorized disruption of a global network compromised by an advanced malware strain known as Snake wielded by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB)
Operation "Medusa" disabled Turla's Snake malware with an FBI-created tool called Perseus.
Perseus to the rescue as Snake eats itself The FBI has cut off a network of Kremlin-controlled computers used to spread the Snake malware which, according to the Feds, has been used by Russia's FSB to steal sensitive documents from NATO members for almost two decades.…
Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from all Five Eyes member nations took down the infrastructure used by the Snake cyber-espionage malware operated by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). [...]
The 2022 AcidRain wiper attack, which shut down satellite services for thousands of people in Ukraine and Western Europe, was extensively discussed during the CYSAT conference in Paris
Finish newspaper Helsinin Sanomat has created a custom Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) map explicitly made to bypass Russian news censorship and smuggle information about the war in Ukraine to Russian players. [...]