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Is LockBit a Kremlin Sock Puppet?Is Moscow using the Russian-speaking LockBit ransomware group as a tool to disrupt critical infrastructure and democracy in the West? While no publicly available evidence reveals direct ties, what are the chances that the prolific, trash-talking group has escaped authorities' attention - or demands?
A new presidential executive order attempts to prevent the mass sales of personal data to countries like China and Russia
Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Decline as Russia-Ukraine War ContinuesRussia's war of conquest against Ukraine grinds onward, but the number of self-proclaimed hacktivists appears to be dwindling as the strategy of temporarily disrupting the availability of high-profile websites has failed to sustain enthusiasm. Groups such as KillNet are still mostly a nuisance.
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that aims to ban the bulk sale and transfer of Americans' private data to "countries of concern" such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela. [...]
The routers were hijacked to steal credentials, proxy traffic, and host phishing pages and custom tools
Biden readies executive order targeting China, Russia, and pals US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that aims to prevent the sale or transfer of Americans' sensitive personal information and government-related data to adversarial countries including China and Russia.…
In a new joint advisory, cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from the U.S. and other countries are urging users of Ubiquiti EdgeRouter to take protective measures, weeks after a botnet comprising infected routers was felled by law enforcement as part of an operation codenamed Dying Ember
Non-techies told to master firmware upgrades and firewall rules. For the infosec hardheads: have some IOCs Authorities from eleven nations have delivered a sequel to the January takedown of a botnet run by Russia on compromised Ubiquiti Edge OS routers – in the form of a warning that Russia may try again, so owners of the devices should take precautions.…
CISA and its counterparts in the UK and other countries this week offered new guidance on how to deal with the threat actor's recent shift to cloud attacks.
APT28 Used Hacked Ubiquiti Routers for Hashed Password Relay AttacksA campaign by Russian military intelligence to convert Ubiquiti routers into a platform for a global cyberespionage operation began as early as 2022, U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies said. The U.S. disrupted a botnet built by a hacking unit of Russian military's Main Intelligence Directorate.
Russian APT28 military hackers are using compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to evade detection, the FBI says in a joint advisory issued with the NSA, the U.S. Cyber Command, and international partners. [...]
Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from the Five Eyes nations have released a joint advisory detailing the evolving tactics of the Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29
Espionage Groups Deploy Info Stealer to Monitor Russia's Diplomatic MovesNorth Korean espionage group TA406, aka the Konni Group, deployed information-stealing malware on a Russian government-owned software to spy on the country's foreign ministry officials. This is the latest attack in a North Korean campaign that targets Russian diplomatic activities.
Five Eyes Cyber Agencies Say Kremlin Hackers Are Following Victims to the CloudThe Russian intelligence hacking group known as APT29 or Cozy Bear is responding to the corporate migration to the cloud with matching hacking techniques, says an alert from international cyber agencies. Threat intelligence firms warn that APT29 has amplified its global cyberespionage operations.
Members of the Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance warned today that APT29 Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) hackers are now switching to attacks targeting their victims' cloud services. [...]
Known as Midnight Blizzard, the Dukes or Cozy Bear, the group has been identified as a Russian entity likely operating under the SVR
After Operation Cronos, LockBit Leader LockBitSupp's Vows to Continue HackingRussian-speaking ransomware operation LockBit reestablished a dark web leak site Saturday afternoon, posting a lengthy screed apparently authored by its leader, who vowed not to retreat from the criminal underground world. The FBI had no comment.