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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.
For practitioners, the tag provides geographic context for developments involving Russia's organizations, services, partners, and users. Individual articles provide the specific technologies, threats, sectors, and operational implications relevant to each development.
Russian Speaking Hackers FIN6 Flip Job Fraud ScriptFinancially-motivated hackers tracked as FIN6 have flipped the script on job fraud, impersonating job seekers to phish recruiters and deploy stealthy malware through fake resumes hosted on trusted cloud platforms. The group engages recruiters on LinkedIn and Indeed with realistic resumes.
Malicious Accounts Linked to Malware, Influence OperationsOpenAI is using its artificial intelligence models to detect and counter abuse and has banned accounts associated with malicious state-linked operations. Hackers aligned with Russia, China, North Korea and Iran have used OpenAI's tools for malware development and social media manipulation.
The threat actor known as Rare Werewolf (formerly Rare Wolf) has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries
Since at least December, the advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been using legit tools to steal data, dodge detection, and drop cryptominers on systems belonging to organizations in Russia.
OpenAI has revealed that it banned a set of ChatGPT accounts that were likely operated by Russian-speaking threat actors and two Chinese nation-state hacking groups to assist with malware development, social media automation, and research about U.S. satellite communications technologies, among other things