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Russia covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to Russia, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
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Russia's FSB intelligence agency says the zero-click attacks range far beyond Kaspersky, and it has blamed them on the United States' NSA. Those allegations are thus far uncorroborated.
Did we just time warp back to 2013? Russian intelligence has accused American snoops and Apple of working together to backdoor iPhones to spy on "thousands" of diplomats worldwide.…
Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. Both of these qualities make stolen or ill-gotten code-signing certificates attractive to cybercriminal groups, who prize their ability to add stealth and longevity to malicious software. This post is a deep dive on "Megatraffer," a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015.
Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky says some iPhones on its network were hacked using an iOS vulnerability that installed malware via iMessage zero-click exploits. Russia blames these attacks on US intelligence agencies. [...]
A previously unknown advanced persistent threat (APT) is targeting iOS devices as part of a sophisticated and long-running mobile campaign dubbed Operation Triangulation that began in 2019
This RomCom is no laughing matter A change in the deployment of the RomCom malware strain has illustrated the blurring distinction between cyberattacks motivated by money and those fueled by geopolitics, in this case Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, according to Trend Micro analysts.…
A threat actor known as Spyboy is promoting a Windows defense evasion tool called "Terminator" on the Russian-speaking forum RAMP (short for Russian Anonymous Marketplace). [...]